Pennsylvania Man Arrested In $250K Disaster Fraud

An Ambler, Pennsylvania, man was charged today with using phony documents to collect $252,734 in FEMA-backed disaster benefits and insurance payments that were supposed to be used to cover storm damages to his mother’s property in Ocean City, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced. Nicholas Ochs, 54, is charged by indictment with one count of disaster benefits fraud, five counts of mail fraud and one count of theft of government funds. He appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen M. Williams and was released on $100,000 unsecured bond.