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A man from Ambler, Pennsylvania, has been charged with using phony documents to collect $252,734 in Federal Emergency Management Agency-backed disaster benefits and insurance payments that were supposed to be used to cover Superstorm Sandy damages to his mother's property in Ocean City, New Jersey.
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|Fraud, theft of government funds
Nicholas Ochs, 54, was charged by indictment with one count of disaster benefits fraud, five counts of mail fraud, and one count of theft of government funds. He appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen M. Williams and was released on $100,000 unsecured bond.
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