Sounds Familiar

Someone else did this, too:

• Two women face felony charges in unrelated fraud cases announced Thursday by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul — one accused of cashing her dead mother’s pension checks for 29 years, the other of submitting fraudulent applications that resulted in more than $500,000 in pandemic relief loans.

  Lynn Stevenson, 75, of Chicago, is accused of stealing more than $100,000 from the Chicago Teachers Pension Fund by collecting payments intended for her mother, a retired CPS educator who died in October 1991, Raoul’s office announced. The pension payments continued after the teacher’s death, and Stevenson allegedly kept collecting and spending the money on herself for the next 29 years, prosecutors said. Raoul’s office received the case through a referral from the Chicago Teachers Pension Fund.

But thanks to one of the Johnson twins (Kevin or Kenny), she might just get away with home confinement in lieu of actual jail time. She'll also probably never pay back but a fraction of what she stole.

Precedent and all that.