Ex-health aide gets four years after pocketing $260G from Manhattan widow, 99

Stephany Hernandez

A home health aide who stole $260,000 by cashing forged checks — ripping off her 99-year-old widow she worked for — got up to 4 1/2 years in prison on Friday.

Stephany Hernandez, 25, pleaded guilty in July to grand larceny in exchange for an incarceration stint of 1 ½-to-4 ½ years, and agreed to pay back the sum she stole, according to the Manhattan District Attorney.

Hernandez worked for an E. 68th St. elderly couple between February 2014 and March 2015. The victim's husband died at age 100 last year.

Their crooked employee wrote over 100 bogus checks to herself, padding her pockets with loot from the infirm woman's account.

With the stolen money, Hernandez went shopping at places like Bloomingdales and Barneys. She took trips to Miami and the Dominican Republic. She also paid her bills.

"Too often, financial exploitation of seniors goes unreported, leaving perpetrators free to move on to their next mark," Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement.

Relatives of the victim uncovered the fraud when reviewing her records after her husband's death.

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Ex-health aide gets four years after pocketing $260G from Manhattan widow, 99