(WNY News Now) – A 35-year-old Dunkirk woman has been sentenced to three years of probation after pleading guilty to theft of federal government funds connected to a COVID-19 unemployment fraud scheme.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Angela Kellogg, 35, of Dunkirk, was sentenced to three years of probation for her role in a scheme that fraudulently obtained Pandemic Unemployment Assistance funded through the federal CARES Act, according to U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo.

Federal prosecutors said Kellogg provided her identification information and Social Security number to a co-conspirator in July 2020, knowing the information would be used to obtain money to which she was not entitled.

Kellogg subsequently received a $11,586 check from the Puerto Rico Department of Labor and Human Resources. Prosecutors said she was ineligible for the assistance because she did not live or work in Puerto Rico.

In September 2020, Kellogg deposited the check into a checking account at Inner Lakes Federal Credit Union in Westfield. She later withdrew some of the money and provided it to co-defendants, according to prosecutors.

Kellogg retained $5,000 of the federal funds for her own benefit. The Puerto Rico Department of Labor and Human Resources sustained a total loss of $67,524 as a result of the scheme, prosecutors said.

Kellogg was convicted of theft of government money. U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra Jr. imposed the three-year probation sentence.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Franz M. Wright.

The investigation was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General.