Iowa woman pleads guilty after banking more than $328,000 in dead mother’s Social Security checks

The U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont in Burlington. File photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger
BURLINGTON — An Iowa woman has pleaded guilty to illegally collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Social Security checks intended for her mother, a Brattleboro resident who died in 1994.Ella Mae Woods entered the guilty plea Friday to a single wire fraud charge during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Burlington. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 19.The case had been set f