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Date: 10-21-2021
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Case Number: 5:19-cr-50156-LRR
Judge: Linda R. Reade
Court: United States District Court for the District of South Dakota (Pennington County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Rapid City, SD: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with theft of government property and supplemental security income benefits by fraud.
Holli Lundahl, a/k/a Holli Telford, age 65, was convicted by a jury of both charges and was sentenced to a total of 18 months in federal prison. Lundahl was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a total of $200 in special assessments to the Federal Crime Victims Fund and $70,110 in restitution. Lundahl must serve her sentence consecutive to a federal sentence of three years in custody she received for fraudulent behavior in Wyoming.
Evidence at trial established Lundahl knowingly stole and converted to her own use Social Security Administration Title XVI Social Security Supplemental Income payments between 2011 and 2019. The evidence showed Lundahl received and kept the payments, even though she was not entitled to them, because she owned property and had resources far in excess of the limits permissible for Title XVI beneficiaries. In order to continue to receive the benefits, Lundahl falsely reported, concealed, and failed to disclose to the Social Security Administration extensive property, resources, and assets she held or possessed.
This case was investigated by the Office of the Inspector General – Social Security Administration. Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Kelderman prosecuted and tried the case.
Lundahl was immediately turned over to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
18 U.S.C. § 641 THEFT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY
(1ss)
42 U.S.C. § 1383a(a)(3)(A) SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME BENEFITS FRAUD
(2ss)
Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment to run concurrent with Count 2ss and consecutive to sentence imposed in District of Wyoming case #20-cr-48; 3 years Supervised Release to run concurrent with Count 2ss and concurrent to the Supervised Release imposed in District of Wyoming case #20-cr-48; $100 Special Assessment; $70,110 restitution
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