According to police, Raquel Estrada-Mochetto, 51, had been forging the signature of the deceased person and cashed more than $8,000 in insurance checks.
Estrada-Moschetto was charged with third-degree grand larceny, third-degree insurance fraud and second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, all felonies.
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