A 61-year-old Buffalo woman was sentenced to 3 years’ probation also ordered to make restitution for making a fake claim for damages suffered in Hurricane Katrina.

Aaron Mango, the Assistant U.S. Attorney said Gayle Porter was convicted of defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) by claiming more than $10,000 in damages from the storm and flooding, when she in fact lived in Buffalo at the time Hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans area.

She has to repay $10,391 in restitution to FEMA.