POCATELLO - At his Monday sentencing for defrauding a number of people and businesses out of money with his false tale of a brother's death in the Iraq war, Derrick Franklin Scott told the judge he had repaid all the money he had stolen.

Not so, say two local women.

Scott, 40, admitted he learned of the April 8, 2008 death of Army Col. Stephen K. Scott in the news. He claimed Col. Scott as his brother to leverage money to ostensibly attend his funeral.

Julie Clark and Hiedi Young were also victimized by Scott. Although neither woman is out of pocket an appreciable sum, both are fuming that Scott has claimed to have made good on all his misdeeds.

Clark said she first encountered Scott when he came to the Wells Fargo Bank at 333 S. Main St. where she works.

"The sad part is his child was on a field trip and he was on a field trip with him," she said. "We have all the elementary schools come in and we show them what we do."

Clark said Scott noticed several pictures of Marines on her desk.

"My son's a Marine. He preceded to tell me he was a Marine, and … the story of his brother passing away and his family in an auto accident and they're trying to get back to the funeral. Me, I gave him 50 bucks out my pocket to help him."

Clark said Scott continued coming into the bank, asking for more money and additional contacts.

"He brought me in pictures of the gentleman who was deceased and all of his background that he had pulled off the Internet. I mean, the medals, the awards, everything," she said. "He came in like three or four times. After the second time, I thought something's not right. He kept coming back and asking me if I'd give him people's name and phone numbers that he could call."

Prior to Clark's suspicions being raised, she gave him the name of her friend, Hiedi Young.

"I work for the Idaho National Guard's family programs," Young said. "In a nutshell, we assist military families just to get through, to prepare for, endure and survive deployment."

As he had done with Clark, Scott came with a well-documented tale of deception.

"He brought up paperwork and everything showing me the biography on his 'brother,'" she said. "I took him for face value and went to the military affairs committee, which I sit on … and told them the story. We decided as a committee to give him $50 and we also passed a hat around and gather up another $50 or so."

Both women reported the scam after Scott's fraud was revealed. Neither have received restitution, but it's not the money that concerns them.

"(It's) not that I care if I get paid back, I just don't want the man to have credit for paying everyone back," Clark said.

"It wasn't a lot of money. It was what we could do to help," Young said. "The thing that really irked me was he was getting credit for having given all the money back, which he hasn't done. I don't think he should be redeemable in the eyes of the public on any level for that. He didn't pay back all his victims like he's claiming, that's for sure."

Scott is currently in the Bannock County Jail, awaiting transport to prison to serve a three-year fixed, four-year indeterminate sentence for felony theft by deception.