2025-11-04
Couple jailed for €114k social welfare fraud
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Michael McMahon (47) of Roosevelt Cottages, Navan Road, was previously given a 14-month suspended sentence after he admitted that as the employer of Cristan Turbat, with his construction company, he was aware that Turbat was working under a false identity. The sentence was suspended in full on the condition that McMahon repay the Department of Social Protection €55,215 in job seekers allowance which had been fraudulently claimed by the Turbats.