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Lawyer David Heyboer talks to his client, Sara Ylen, during her sentencing Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Sandusky, Mich. Ylen was sentenced to one year in prison Wednesday for a scam that tricked an insurance company and swindled people in small communities who believed she was dying of cancer. She already is serving a minimum five-year prison sentence in another case of deceit, and the one-year punishment for fraud will run at the same time. (AP Photo/The Port Huron Times Herald, Mark R. Rummel) NO SALES

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People watch as Sara Ylen is led through the courthouse by Department of Corrections officers after her sentencing, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Sandusky, Mich. Ylen was sentenced to one year in prison Wednesday for a scam that tricked an insurance company and swindled people in small communities who believed she was dying of cancer. She already is serving a minimum five-year prison sentence in another case of deceit, and the one-year punishment for fraud will run at the same time. (AP Photo/The Port Huron Times Herald, Mark R. Rummel) NO SALES

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Sara Ylen is led into the courtroom Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Sandusky, Mich. Ylen was sentenced to one year in prison Wednesday for a scam that tricked an insurance company and swindled people in small communities who believed she was dying of cancer. She already is serving a minimum five-year prison sentence in another case of deceit, and the one-year punishment for fraud will run at the same time. (AP Photo/The Port Huron Times Herald, Mark R. Rummel) NO SALES

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James Grissom listens to Suzette Samuels, Wayne County assistant prosecuting attorney as she argues about the sentencing guidelines for Sara Ylen, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 in Port Huron. Ylen, 38, was sentenced to at least five years in prison for falsely accusing Grissom and another man of rape, a punishment that came just days after she pleaded no contest to a cancer scam in a separate case that also challenged her credibility. Grissom was convicted in 2001. His case was dismissed after he spent nearly a decade in prison. (AP Photo/The Port Huron Times Herald, Mark R. Rummel) NO SALES

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Sara Ylen, right, sits with her lawyer, David HeyBoer, in Judge Daniel Kelly’s courtroom before being sentenced on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 in Port Huron, Mich. Ylen, 38, was sentenced to at least five years in prison for falsely accusing two men of rape, a punishment that came just days after she pleaded no contest to a cancer scam in a separate case that also challenged her credibility. (AP Photo/The Port Huron Times Herald, Mark R. Rummel) NO SALES

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Sara Ylen, right, is led from Judge Daniel Kelly’s courtroom as James Grissom watches on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 in Port Huron. Ylen, 38, was sentenced to at least five years in prison for falsely accusing Grissom and another man of rape, a punishment that came just days after she pleaded no contest to a cancer scam in a separate case that also challenged her credibility. Grissom was convicted in 2001. His case was dismissed after he spent nearly a decade in prison. (AP Photo/The Port Huron Times Herald, Mark R. Rummel) NO SALES