A 30-year-old Cedar Rapids woman has been sentenced to two months in federal prison for lying to the Federal Emergency Management Agency in an application for flood disaster relief.

Kelley Lynn Brutsman will also be required to pay $3,251.99 in restitution to FEMA, and will serve an additional two months of home detention following her prison term. She must also serve a three-year period of supervised release.

At the plea hearing, Brutsman admitted she lied while completing an application for FEMA disaster relief. On that form she claimed to live on Ellis Boulevard in Cedar Rapids at the time of the historic June 2008 floods. As result of her misrepresentation, she received financial benefits from FEMA that she should not have received.

Brutsman was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade on June 23 in Cedar Rapids. She had entered a guilty plea in December 2008. The Cedar Rapids Police Department, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Inspector General investigated. Her prison term is scheduled to begin on July 6.