( CNN ) -- A North Carolina woman pleaded guilty to filing fraudulent claims for relief from the Gulf oil disaster , authorities said . Charlette Johnson pleaded guilty to two counts of submitting false claims to a federal agency , two counts of aggravated identity theft and eight counts of wire fraud in Raleigh , North Carolina , on Monday , prosecutors said . Johnson , 41 , was the first person to be charged with fraud in connection with relief from the BP oil spill , a Department of Justice spokeswoman said . She may also be the first person to plead guilty of the seven people charged with fraud in connection with the oil spill , the spokeswoman said . But the BP oil spill was n't the only disaster for which Johnson fraudulently applied for relief , authorities said . Johnson also fraudulently claimed she needed assistance for property damage `` caused by Hurricane Katrina for a home in New Orleans that she never owned and in which she never lived , '' federal authorities said in a statement . Johnson also placed a claim in the name of her sister for `` damage caused by the wildfires to a home in Malibu , California , that neither she , nor her sister , had ever owned , and in which neither she nor her sister had ever lived . '' In all , Johnson was able to fraudulently obtain more than $ 75,000 in four years from the Federal Emergency Management Agency , according to court documents . For some of the time Johnson committed the fraud , she was on active duty with the Army and was stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina , court documents said . Johnson also goes by the first name Charlotte Johnson . For one of the claims she used her name , Charlette Johnson . Later she used other names such as Minnie Blount , Robert Garner , Sabrina Conner , Lexxus Johnson and Otis McNeil . `` When someone seeks to profit from tragic disasters and attempts to trade on other peoples ' misfortune for personal gain through lies and deceit , they will be held to account for their actions , '' said U.S. Attorney George Holding of the eastern district of North Carolina . CNN 's Shawn Nottingham contributed to this report .
Charlette Johnson was the first person to be charged with fraud in the Gulf oil spill . She also filed force claims in Hurricane Katrina and a wildfire in California , authorities said . Comment: