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Mom Swipes Son's SSN To Get Job; Gets Jail Instead
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Jeannette Johnson gets six months, plus three years of probation.

(AP) _

A Nebraska woman with a felony record who used her son's Social Security number to get a job has been given six months in jail.

Jeannette Johnson, of Ashland, also was sentenced on Thursday tothree years of probation. The 38-year-old Johnson had pleaded nocontest to criminal impersonation.

Johnson was working as a Medicaid biller for a child mental health center in Lincoln.  Police say that if she had used her own Social Security number on an application to get the job, a records check would have shown felony convictions for forgery and theft.

Authorities also say she checked "no'' on the application where it asked whether the applicant had been convicted of a felony.