{"id":199215,"date":"2026-03-20T14:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199215\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:20:20","slug":"miami-gardens-woman-accused-of-using-fake-cuban-marriage-license-to-obtain-social-security-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199215\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Gardens woman accused of using fake Cuban marriage license to obtain Social Security benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 20, 2026 at 10:01 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/B7TXRDBDM5GENMCKQYB3LX72K4.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Marilyn Mato (Miami-Dade Corrections &amp; Rehabilitation) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.  \u2014 A Miami Gardens woman is accused of fraud after allegedly using a fraudulent Cuban marriage license to obtain Social Security benefits for a deceased man, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, the Social Administration Office of the Inspector General initiated an investigation into Marilyn Mato, 62, who was born in Cuba but is now a U.S. citizen, in April 2022. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives said Cuba\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the marriage certificate provided by Mato did not match their official records and was fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Due to the fraudulent document, Mato was able to obtain $73,627 from April 2022 to January 2026, the arrest report stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mato was located Thursday and arrested on charges of second-degree grand theft and organized scheme to defraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Friday morning, Mato was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed her total bond as \u201cto be set.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 20, 2026 at 10:01 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandMarilyn Mato (Miami-Dade Corrections &amp; Rehabilitation) MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 A Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-199215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}