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When sentenced in Gisborne District Court in February last year, Judge Warren Cathcart found it hard to believe Hollis’s claim that she had no means to pay reparation. “It staggers me you have no potential to pay reparation, someone who has received a million dollars in this way over a 3½-year period,” the judge said. He said Hollis’s offending was motivated by “pure greed”. The Files took a civil claim against Hollis, her husband Jason Peach and her mother Ann Hollis, seeking an order for recovery of the funds they’d lost. Peach and Ann Hollis were subject to the application because Hollis had given Peach some of the money, and had used some of the money to pay for improvements to her mother’s house.