A 47-year-old man was sentenced last month to eight months imprisonment and three years supervised release for theft offenses related to fraudulent receipt of his dead father's Social Security benefits, the U.S. attorney's office for Hawai'i announced today.

Jeffrey Keola, a former HMSA compliance auditor, was sentenced Feb. 14 by Chief District Judge Helen Gillmor. Keola pleaded guilty to improperly receiving $83,000 in Social Security benefit payments intended for his father from 2000 to 2005, Keola's father passed away in 2000.

The case was investigated by the Inspector General's Social Security office.