A Portsmouth brace attempted to accomplish off with $600,000 in activity allowance gain by appearance the woman’s afterlife — a arrangement that included announcement a apocryphal afterlife apprehension in the Daily Press in 2015 — according to federal cloister documents.
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Alexandra Hatcher, 49, and Albert W. Hatcher Jr., 49, pleaded accusable to artifice accuse in U.S. District Cloister in Newport Account backward aftermost month. The accuse pertained both to the apish afterlife — which was ultimately bootless in accepting an allowance asset — and about 20 affected agent purchases.
They will be bedevilled aboriginal abutting year.
A account of facts filed with the accusable pleas — and active off on by prosecutors, the Hatchers and their attorneys as allotment of the acceding — provides the afterward details:
In 2014 and 2015, the Hatchers took out activity allowance behavior on Sandra Marie Hatcher — as the accepted Alexandra Hatcher was accurately accepted afresh — payable to Albert Hatcher Jr.
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In August 2015, Alexandra Hatcher artificial afterlife certificates adage that Sandra Hatcher died in Portsmouth on Aug. 16 as a aftereffect “of a alarming academician abrasion consistent from a fall.” They beatific that apish affidavit to Navy Mutual Aid Association, allurement that Albert Hatcher be paid in a agglomeration sum. Alexandra Hatcher additionally airish as her sister-in-law and alleged addition allowance firm, New York Life, to say that Sandra Hatcher was dead.
“To actualize the apocryphal afterlife allowances claims,” the Hatchers “created and submitted for advertisement a afterlife notice” that Sandra M. Hatcher had died. “At their direction, the Daily Press appear this apocryphal apprehension on Sept. 2, 2015.”
But the allowance companies capital added proof. Navy Mutual said a “certified afterlife certificate” was all-important to get any payout. Alexandra Hatcher, afresh assuming as her sister-in-law, told Navy Mutual that a bounded burial home would be sending the certified archetype the afterward week.
On Sept. 3, Sandra Hatcher’s ancestors were abashed to see in the Daily Press that she had allegedly died. They appear the amount to the Portsmouth police. Admiral went to the Hatchers’ abode that day, with Albert Hatcher answering the door. Back the badge asked to allege to Sandra Hatcher, he said, “Is this a joke?” and told the admiral she had afresh died.
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When “officers asked for a archetype of the afterlife certificate,” Albert Hatcher “briefly showed admiral one of the artificial and biased certificates of death” attesting that Sandra Hatcher had died from a fall. But as he was cogent them that, he additionally said she died of cancer. Admiral went to the burial home listed on the afterlife certificate, and advisers had no almanac of her death.
Sandra Hatcher’s ancestors filed a missing person’s report. Admiral connected to investigate the “disappearance” for several months and abstruse about several affected affluence agent purchases. During that investigation, board begin that the Hatchers — with Alexandra Hatcher afresh assuming as “Alexandra Vaughn Mitchell” — got remarried in Las Vegas.
“After insurers denied their claims,” the Hatchers “undertook a cross-country artifice arrangement through which they fraudulently acquired at atomic 20 new and newer-used affluence cartage by presenting abandoned and affected checks and artificial abstracts to car dealerships in several states,” the U.S. attorney’s appointment said in a account release. Those dealerships were in Virginia, North Carolina, Washington, Ohio and Florida, and included the Casey Auto Group in Newport News.
With Alexandra Hatcher application her new alias, the brace got new titles for the cartage “and acclimated them as accessory for loans and added vehicles,” prosecutors said. The vehicles, which included Lincolns, Cadillacs, and assorted SUVs and sports cars, alignment in amount from $24,000 to $87,000. Federal agents accomplished a chase accreditation at the couple’s Portsmouth home in December 2016. They begin agent sales annal and a account in which Alexandra Hatcher kept clue of all her name changes.
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The Hatchers were accusable in Newport Account federal cloister in May, and arrested aural weeks. Albert Hatcher pleaded accusable on Oct. 23, Alexandra Hatcher on Oct. 31. They anniversary pleaded accusable to cabal to accomplish coffer fraud, cabal to accomplish mail fraud, and a affected analysis charge, with addition bad analysis allegation alone as allotment of the appeal bargain.
They face up to 30 years in bastille back they’re bedevilled in aboriginal 2018.
Peter Dujardin can be accomplished by buzz at 757-247-4749 or by email at pdujardin@dailypress.com
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