Feds put the bite on grandmother's cake-baking business

Maria Perez is 68 years old, has three children and eight grandchildren, and had pretty much led a straight-laced life.

But the retired civilian employee of the Air Force was charged Tuesday for conduct related to baking cakes.

The Department of Labor claims Perez, of San Antonio, was allegedly earning a side income in a cake business with a daughter, despite claiming disability since at least 1995 after injuring her back at the old Kelly AFB, now known as Port San Antonio.

She is charged, so far, with making a false statement that enabled her to defraud the Department of Labor's Office of Workers Compensation Program of less than $1,000 during 2011. She faces up to a year in jail and a $100,000 fine.

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