[StBernard] NAPOLEONVILLE WOMAN SENTENCED FOR DEFRAUDING FEMA

[Westley Annis]

NAPOLEONVILLE WOMAN SENTENCED FOR DEFRAUDING FEMA
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA -ALBERTINE WIGGINS, age 24, a resident of
Napoleonville, LA, was sentenced today by U. S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle
to six (6) months home detention with electronic monitoring, five (5) years
probation, and restitution to FEMA in the amount of $5,922.38, announced U.
S. Attorney Jim Letten.

According to court documents, ALBERTINE WIGGINS pled guilty to a two count
indictment charging her with wire fraud and theft of Government funds.
Specifically, WIGGINS contacted FEMA purportedly to obtain financial
assistance for another individual. In the course of this contact with FEMA,
WIGGINS provided her personal checking account number to FEMA, and as a
result close to $6,000 was transferred to WIGGINS. The individual for whom
the assistance was to be provided did not receive the money. 

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the
United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The
case was prosecuted by Assistant U. S. Attorney Dan Friel.