FILE- This April 9, 2012 file photo released by the Orange County, NY Corrections Division via the Times Herald-Record of Middletown, N.Y. shows Jessica Vega. Vega, who lied in 2010 when she people her Hudson Valley community that she was dying of leukemi
FILE- This April 9, 2012 file photo released by the Orange County, NY Corrections Division via the Times Herald-Record of Middletown, N.Y. shows Jessica Vega. Vega, who lied in 2010 when she people her Hudson Valley community that she was dying of leukemia and wanted a "dream wedding" to Michael O'Connell, bilked well intentioned donors out of $13,000 in cash, goods and services. Vega, 25, isn't likely to do any time in state prison, court officials said, but she will have to repay $13,368 to her victims when she is sentenced, Wednesday, May 23. Orange County Corrections Division via the Times Herald-Record, File, Associated Press
By Associated Press

GOSHEN, N.Y. — An upstate New York woman who faked having cancer so donors would pay for her wedding and Caribbean honeymoon is being released after less than two months in jail.

Jessica Vega apologized Wednesday in Orange County Court for the scam. A prosecutor says she has paid back more than $13,000 to people she victimized.

The judge then sentenced her to time served. Vega was arrested April 3 and pleaded guilty to the scam three weeks later.

Her lawyer says she'll be released later Wednesday from the county jail.

Her ex-husband says Vega will live with his family.

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Vega claimed in 2010 that she was dying of leukemia and wanted a "dream wedding" to Michael O'Connell, the father of her baby.

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