{"id":2229,"date":"2016-03-11T00:51:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T05:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2016-03-10T20:53:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T01:53:21","slug":"marthas-vineyard-man-sentenced-for-social-security-fraud-and-tax-evasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2229","title":{"rendered":"Martha\u2019s Vineyard Man Sentenced for Social Security Fraud and Tax Evasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; U.S. Department of Justice)<\/p>\n<p>An Oak Bluffs man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for stealing $160,025 in Social Security benefits and falsifying his 2010 tax return.<\/p>\n<p>Vernon Harris, 63, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to six months in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $160,025 in restitution to the Social Security Administration and $21,605 to the Internal Revenue Service.\u00a0 In December 2015, Harris pleaded guilty to theft of public money and tax evasion. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ma\/pr\/martha-s-vineyard-man-sentenced-social-security-fraud-and-tax-evasion\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s\u00a0validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; U.S. Department of Justice) An Oak Bluffs man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}