A Villager has entered a plea in an insurance fraud case involving her brother’s wife.
Sophie Nassif Bolous, 74, who lives in Villa Vera Cruz in the Village of Santiago, is dealing with a felony cost of fraud. She was arrested on a warrant final week and booked on the Sumter County Detention Center. She has been launched on $2,000 bond.
Bolous entered a plea of not responsible in the case on Wednesday in Sumter County Court in entrance of Judge Mary Hatcher. She has retained felony protection legal professional Danielle Barbato of Bogin, Munns & Munns for authorized illustration.
In a court docket type, Bolous indicated she collects $828 per thirty days in Social Security advantages and has $20,000 in the financial institution. She additionally has $200,000 in actual property fairness and owns a 2017 Toyota Camry.
She is charged with working in live performance together with her brother, 81-year-old Youseff El-Masry, who additionally lives in Villa Vera Cruz, to gather $22,050 from Genworth Insurance for care offered for his wife, Earline Peyton.
Bolous filed paperwork claiming she had offered look after Peyton on the fee of $25 per hour. She additionally claimed she was not associated to Peyton by both blood or marriage, in line with an investigation by the Florida Department of Financial Services Division of Investigative and Forensic Services. Bolous stated she was offering care 78 hours per week.
Genworth Insurance on May 12, 2021 initiated a “care call” with El-Masry, who had Bolous with him on speaker telephone. El-Masry, who emigrated to the United States in 1968 and spent a few years in Chicago, informed the insurance firm consultant that Bolous’ “English is not the best,” the report stated. The name was carried out on a recorded line. Bolous claimed she was working about 10 hours per day, serving to Peyton get away from bed and go to the lavatory. She additionally stated she helped bathe Peyton and get her to the dinner desk. An investigator analyzed the decision and decided that Bolous was “being coached.”
When an investigator went to Bolous’ residence this previous August, she was confronted with the actual fact she was making $1,800 per week offering look after Peyton. Bolous stated “that doesn’t make sense.” She stated she didn’t obtain a penny for the care and concluded she was “volunteering.” During the interview by the investigator at her residence, she additionally admitted El-Masry is her brother.
El-Masry, who can be dealing with a fraud cost, has been in the headlines due his fierce battle earlier this 12 months with the Community Development District 2 Board of Supervisors in a bid to avoid wasting a bootleg addition he made to his residence with out the approval of the Architectural Review Committee. He claimed he made the unsanctioned addition for the care of his ailing wife.
