She'd said she was injured so badly that she had to call off her wedding reception. But authorities say it was actually a scheme to defraud a wedding planning website. She was sentenced to 5 years in county jail for trying to scam the site twice in 2016.
Vermyttya Miller, 38, was sentenced to five years in county jail after she attempted to scam the wedding planning website twice in 2016, the California Department of Insurance said.In October 2016, the native of Santa Clarita used the website to book a wedding reception at the Galleria Ballroom in Glendale, California, with a $10,000 event cancellation insurance policy.
Read MoreWhen Tokio Marine, the insurer, referred the claim to the Department of Insurance for investigation, detectives found the report was for an incident that took place years earlier and the medical records had been falsified, the Department of Insurance said. "Miller's trail of fraudulent claims led straight to a five-year jail sentence after department detectives unraveled her scheme," said Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara in a statement.
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