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Associated Press - April 21, 2009 10:55 AM ET
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A woman who worked at a Red Cross call center in northern Virginia has pleaded guilty to defrauding the agency of out $28,000 intended for Hurricane Katrina victims.
Twenty-5-year-old Kenyetta Graham of Melrose, N.Y., entered her plea Monday to wire fraud charges in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. She faces up to 20 years in prison when she is sentenced in July.
Prosecutors say Graham, while working at the call center in Falls Church, processed claims from hurricane victims for disaster relief funds and created fictitious claims for phony victims. They say accomplices posing as those victims received disaster funds wired to Western Union outlets.
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