Texas woman who faked cancer to delay going to prison sentenced to five more years
A Denison woman who lied about having stomach cancer to delay a federal prison sentence has been given an additional five years.
Kassie Bond Carpenter had submitted at least nine sets of forged medical records from 2017 to 2019 indicating she had been diagnosed and was receiving treatment for adenocarcinoma, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. That’s a type of cancer that begins in the glandular cells that line the stomach and other organs.
Carpenter pleaded guilty in February to obstruction of justice, and she was sentenced to the additional five years on Thursday afternoon.
The Denison woman had been sentenced to 41 months for wire fraud. Denison is about 100 miles northeast of Fort Worth.
The five-year sentence handed down Thursday will be served consecutively with the 41-month sentence she received on the wire fraud case.
In the fake cancer case, her attorney wrote in a motion for one of her delays that Carpenter was “now receiving radiation therapy for her stomach cancer.”
Carpenter was granted multiple extensions, delaying her prison reporting date from Aug. 22, 2017, to April 29, 2019, according to federal court records.
On Jan. 29, 2019, her attorney moved to withdraw from the case, stating he believed he had been “an unwitting tool in a fraud on this court” due to potential deceit by this client. Two days later, Carpenter was arrested.
In the wire case, Carpenter pleaded guilty to embezzling almost $400,000 from a property management company where she worked.
She admitted she fraudulently issued at least $133,000 in checks payable to herself and $157,000 in checks payable to a fictitious company she created.
Carpenter used the company money to pay off personal accounts with JC Penney, Verizon, TXU Energy and DirecTV, according to federal court documents.
