(CHICAGO) A woman authorities dubbed a “sweetheart swindler” was sentenced to eight years in prison Friday after she admitted she deceived an elderly man out of $1.2 million, telling him she needed the money for cancer treatments and other procedures.

Candy Ely, 35, pleaded guilty to theft before Cook County Judge James Obbish, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.

She also received a two-year prison sentence earlier this week in Skokie for a 2014 retail theft case. That sentence will run concurrent with her 8-year sentence, according to court records.

Eli took money from the 86-year-old victim over a five-year period after she met him at a restaurant and began a false romantic relationship with him, authorities said.

She scammed the man out of cash and other items, including a car, police said. She also led the man to believe she needed the money for various medical procedures, such as cancer treatments and surgery.

Ely, of the 3400 block of West Diversey, was arrested this past summer during a traffic stop by Illinois State Police.

— Chicago Sun-Times