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Sentencing of fraudster Samantha Cookes adjourned

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A 36-year-old woman has apologised to the Department of Social Protection and a general practitioner for taking advantage of Covid conditions to deceive them.

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The JournalThe Journal

Fraudster Samantha Cookes apologises for lying about illness to obtain €60,000 in social welfare

Samantha Cookes entered a guilty plea last week at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee to stealing over sixty thousand euro from the Department of Social Protection.

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RTÉRTÉ

Sentencing of fraudster Samantha Cookes adjourned

A 36-year-old woman has apologised to the Department of Social Protection and a general practitioner for taking advantage of Covid conditions to deceive them.

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Irish ExaminerIrish Examiner

Samantha Cookes fooled GP into believing she had Huntington’s Disease in €60k welfare fraud

Cookes led a respected GP into filling out a form in 2020 saying she had been already diagnosed with the disease and referencing other medical people

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Irish IndependentIrish Independent

Samantha Cookes’ ‘elaborate’ social welfare fraud ‘was a house of cards’

Samantha Cookes who falsely claimed she had a terminal diagnosis of Huntington’s disease to get social welfare payments could not maintain her lies, Tralee Circuit Criminal Court heard this week.

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Irish Independent broke the news in Ireland on Wednesday, February 19, 2025.
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