An impostor nurse who lied about education and work experience was sentenced to 65 months in prison.
Sonya Emery fraudulently received from employers more than $ 2.2 million and evaded taxes in the amount of more than $ 697 thousand.
The defendant lived in four different states and used several pseudonyms, including «Sonya Lee Robinson». The woman told employers that she has several master's and doctoral degrees from Emory and New York Universities, the Justice Department said.
In fact, she never attended these colleges or graduated.
Emery also lied about being a registered nurse licensed in New York, Georgia, Connecticut, and California and told employers about other people's license numbers.
She was fraudulently obtained a senior vice president position at a health consulting firm in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with an annual salary of approximately $ 285,000. The fraudster later worked as a consultant for two health-related companies in Massachusetts and Wisconsin, where she was paid from $ 226 thousand to $ 267 thousand
From 2015 to 2018, Emery also served as a senior executive at the California county government health agency, which paid her a total of about $ 960,000.
Emery was arrested in 2018. She pleaded guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion earlier this year.
