230 grand is a lot of money...

...but keeping a rotting corpse in your house for several years doesn't really sound worth it, if you ask me:

A Florida woman was sentenced on Monday to a year and a day in prison for keeping her dead mother's body in a bedroom for years while collecting more than $230,000 in pension benefits, prosecutors said.

Penelope Sharon Jordan, 61, of Sebastian, Florida, pleaded guilty to theft of government funds in June, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami said.

Police said when they found the body in a spare bedroom in March, Jordan told them her mother had been dead for at least six years. During the sentencing hearing, evidence indicated that Jordan told her sister their mother had died before December, 2001.

Um, I guess her sister didn't bother to attend the funeral. Assuming that she even bothered to stage one, that is.

There's no word in the article on whether or not Ms. Jordan had anything to do with running a motel.