00:29 Couple Pleads Guilty to Stealing Money from Hurricane Sandy Victims A New Jersey couple hired to repair or rebuild Superstorm Sandy-damaged homes said they stole the money.

At a Glance A New Jersey couple hired to repair or rebuild Superstorm Sandy-damaged homes said they stole the money.

Instead of doing the projects they were contracted to do, they pocketed more than $1.4 million.

Twenty families were impacted by the scam.

After being hired to repair or rebuild the Superstorm Sandy-damaged homes of 20 families, two New Jersey residents said they instead stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from those families, the couple admitted.

Jeffrey Colmyer and Tiffany Cimino, of Little Egg Harbor, pleaded guilty Tuesday to theft by failure to make required disposition of property. Colmyer also pleaded guilty to money laundering on behalf the couple's companies, Rayne Construction Management Services and Colmyer & Sons Construction.

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State authorities will recommend that Colmyer receive a seven-year state prison and that Cimino get probation when they are sentenced Sept. 7. They say the couple stole more than $1.4 million, mostly Sandy relief funds, and used much of the money to gamble and buy luxury items.

This included a $17,000 diamond ring and trips to seven casinos in Atlantic City, where they gambled most of the money away , according to Fox News.

"Meanwhile, they abandoned jobs, or in many cases failed to even start jobs, leaving many victims with uninhabitable homes," the state attorney general's office told Fox News.