Poway man hid mother's death for 30 years, stole more than 0,000 in benefits
SAN DIEGO – Donald Felix Zampach of Poway pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday, June 27, to money laundering and social security fraud, admit...
SAN DIEGO – Donald Felix Zampach of Poway pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday, June 27, to money laundering and social security fraud, admitting that he fraudulently concealed his mother's death for decades and that he received and then laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars in government benefits intended for her, that should have ceased upon her death, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District of California. According to his plea agreement, Zampach's mother died in Japan in 1990, and at the time of her death she was receiving a widow's pension from the Social Security Administration and an annuity from the Department of Defense Finance Accounting Service, the press release reads.