she knew hanson because he handled her insurance. a reverse mortgage he said would allow her to get cash out of the bowie home she owned. he then used her short term memory issues to bilk her for cash for alleged expenses connected with the reverse mortgage, 143 checks in one year, her life savings totaling about 270 thousands thousand dollars. in it weren t for the help $270,000. if it weren t for the help of the state s attorney s office, cunningham might have lost her home. i have to pinch pennies. i get a certain amount. the court has helped me to get food stamps. i live on food stamps. reporter: hanson also conned lucy mackey and her husband out of $1,900 in an insurance scam. supposed to be a businessman and he s going around doing all this illegal stuff. it s very bad and i hope he serves every day that s coming to him. reporter: what s coming to him is a 20 year sentence with all but seven years suspended. he s also facing jail time in other jurisdictions fo