Department of Justice

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Western District of Pennsylvania

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Glassport Woman Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding Finney Funeral Home

PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release and ordered to pay $249,664.80 in restitution on her conviction of issuing forged checks, theft of government money and access device fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

United States District Judge Gustave Diamond imposed the sentence on Deborah A. Mattie, 48, of Glassport, Pennsylvania.

According to information presented to the Court at the guilty plea, Mattie defrauded the Finney Funeral Home.

Assistant United States Attorney Robert S. Cessar is prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Allegheny County Police Department conducted the investigation leading to the Information in this case.