Http://tinyurl.com/lsfs3po BOSTON – Massachusetts authorities say a New
York woman fraudulently collected nearly half a
million dollars from the fund for Boston Marathon
bombing victims.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley
says 26-year-old Audrea Gause of Troy, N.Y.,
was arrested there Friday on a Massachusetts
fugitive warrant charging her with larceny.
Coakley says Gause submitted a claim to the
fund, including false medical records indicating
she was treated at hospitals in Boston and in New
York for a traumatic brain injury suffered in the
bombings. She received a $480,000 check from
the fund.
Coakley says authorities got a tip last week that
Gause may not have been in Boston on the day
of the marathon, and the hospitals later said they
didn't treat her.
It wasn't immediately clear whether Gause has an
attorney.