Former Texas Justice of The Peace Named in Federal Complaint

Former McLennan County Justice of the Peace Jean Laster Boone, who resigned her office after she was caught up in a mileage scam to defraud the county, has now been named in a federal complaint that charges theft from the Social Security Administration.

Federal court records show she was named guardian for a friend who died but Boone kept receiving Social Security benefit checks in his name and cashing them.

One of her defense attorneys says she’s already repaid $16,517 to the federal government, which is the amount federal prosecutors say she took.

When her friend, Robert Martin Davis, died in 2010, Boone was named cosignatory for his accounts, which included the Social Security checks, Jim Dunnam, one of her attorneys said.

Social Security investigators learned when they tried to contact Davis last year that he had died.

When they checked his bank account, they found that $63,000 had been deposited since his death but more than $16,000 was missing.

Boone admitted she used the money to make repairs on her house.

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Former Justice of the Peace Named in Federal Complaint