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A MAN who lied about having a son who died in the World Trade Centre attack to get $US160,000 ($242,240) in charity funds was sentenced today to more than a decade in prison.
Prosecutors said the father of 12 made up a 13th child so he could steal relief money from the American Red Cross and Safe Horizons.
Cyril Kendall, 54, was given a sentence of 11 to 33 years in prison.
He was convicted on August 7 of grand larceny and offering a false instrument for claiming his imaginary 29-year-old son, Wilfred Kendall, had been in the trade centre on September 11 and was killed when the towers collapsed.
Kendall said he used $US95,000 for family grief counselling and the remainder on related expenditures, including a memorial service
A MAN who lied about having a son who died in the World Trade Centre attack to get $US160,000 ($242,240) in charity funds was sentenced today to more than a decade in prison.
Prosecutors said the father of 12 made up a 13th child so he could steal relief money from the American Red Cross and Safe Horizons.
Cyril Kendall, 54, was given a sentence of 11 to 33 years in prison.
He was convicted on August 7 of grand larceny and offering a false instrument for claiming his imaginary 29-year-old son, Wilfred Kendall, had been in the trade centre on September 11 and was killed when the towers collapsed.
Kendall said he used $US95,000 for family grief counselling and the remainder on related expenditures, including a memorial service