Dripping Springs woman receives prison sentence, fine for defrauding two federal agencies for nearly six years

Forty-year-old Josephine Casandra Perez- Gorda was sentenced on March 23 to 46 months in prison by a federal court in San Antonio.

She will be required to pay $501,709.54 in restitution for defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Social Security Administration of more than $500,000.

According to court documents, Perez-Gorda defrauded the VA and SSA by overstating the severity and extent of her spouse’s disability from October 2011 through August 2017.