A local business owner has been sentenced for social security fraud after he was found to have allegedly stolen his father’s social security payments.
A U.S district judge sentenced 39-year-old Michael Sylvara of Ozark to two years and three months in prison without parole and ordered him to pay $42,369 in restitution to the government.
He was found guilty of social security fraud and forgery. A witness said she had to buy Sylvara’s father clothing, and all his father had to eat in the refrigerator was cat food.