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LOS ANGELES\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Judge<\/a>
U.S. District Court Judge Dolly M. Gee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In sentencing Carol Ejdowski<\/strong>\u00a0to nearly five years for fraud, U.S. District Court Judge Dolly M. Gee<\/strong> didn’t mince words to described Ejdowski’s crimes, officials said today.<\/span><\/p>\n

Judge Gee said \u201cthe facts of this case are particularly despicable.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Pointing to the defendant\u2019s multiple prior convictions for fraud, grand theft and perjury, Judge Gee called Ejdowski \u201ca recidivist of the highest order\u201d who had \u201cshown her disrespect for the law repeatedly,\u201d officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The judge sentenced Ejdowski to four years and 10 months behind bars, noting the woman’s 40-year history of fraudulent conduct.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ejdowski used\u00a0checks stolen from a woman in a West Hills nursing home to purchase hundreds of dollars in merchandise \u2013 a crime she committed while on supervised released in another federal fraud case.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the low loss amount was low, prosecutors wrote<\/strong> in a sentencing memo that Ejdowski\u2019s \u201ccriminal conduct was particularly deplorable because it targeted a defenseless, 70-year-old, half-paralyzed woman who was living by herself in a nursing home\/rehab facility.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In a sentencing memorandum, prosecutors detailed Ejdowski\u2019s history of fraud offenses, with convictions going back to the 1970s, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ejdowski, a transient who had recently been residing in Beverly Hills, committed the offense while she was on supervised release, officials indicated.<\/span><\/p>\n

When she defrauded the elderly victim, officials said Ejdowski was serving a three-year period of supervised released after pleading guilty to passport fraud related to a credit card scam, serving a 63-month federal prison term and being released in late 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ejdowski plead guilty in September 2014 to one count of bank fraud, admitting that she stole checks from the victim that she used to purchase merchandise at Costco and Walmart. Ejdowski was originally scheduled to be sentenced on April 29, but she failed to appear for that hearing and was a fugitive until she was arrested and incarcerated in August, according to authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Ejdowski admitted in court that she used stolen checks, prosecutors argued that she also used the victim\u2019s credit cards in a scheme that cause $1,925 in losses.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis case demonstrates the Department of Justice\u2019s commitment to prosecuting those who prey upon the most vulnerable in our community,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker<\/strong>. \u201cStanding alone, the monetary loss in this case did not adequately reflect the gravity of defendant\u2019s crime, but today\u2019s significant sentence should send a message to all those who would seek to victimize the vulnerable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The FBI investigated this case.<\/span><\/p>\n

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