Scott May Given Probation For Defrauding Wyoming Unemployment Division

A Casper man will avoid prison time after admitting that he was collecting unemployment checks, while he was working.

Scott May was given a two-to-four year suspended prison sentence, with three years of probation, after he pleaded guilty to one count of obtaining benefits by fraud.

According to the State of Wyoming Special Investigations Unit, May started receiving unemployment benefits in February 2010, but an audit later showed that two months later, May was working but was still filling out unemployment forms on line.

In September 2012, he requested benefits again, but any money he was supposed to receive, went towards what he already owed.

Eventually the SIU was contacted and when May was found, he admitted to what he did, saying that it was a bad time in his life, and he was using drugs and didn't care.

He has also been ordered to pay more than $4,700 in restitution.