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Judge: Hoax mom swindled $1M from boss, relative

Published On: Jan 18 2012 03:23:00 PM EST  Updated On: Jan 18 2012 11:50:05 PM EST

Sweeten sentencing trial to resume

PHILADELPHIA -

A federal judge has found that a woman stole more than $1 million before she called in a hoax carjacking and fled to Walt Disney World with her daughter.

The million-dollar fraud boosts Bonnie Sweeten's sentencing range to about seven to nine years.

The 40-year-old paralegal from Feasterville, Bucks Co., was in court for sentencing Wednesday, but the hearing was not completed. It will resume next Thursday.

Prosecutors are seeking 10 years in prison for her guilty pleas to fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Sweeten triggered a nationwide search in 2009 when she told a 911 operator she and her 9-year-old daughter had been carjacked and stuffed into a trunk.

She fled as police closed in on her for swindling her boss and an elderly relative, authorities said.

Sweeten spent a year in prison for the fake abduction call.

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