FDLE: DCF Worker Stole $40K In Tax Dollars
Welfare, Child Protection, Child Support, Adoption, and all inter-related federal grant programs that have been plagued by a number of bribery schemes, extortion schemes, corruption, and other accountability programs as their number of program participants and bureaucratic positions increase.
Yesterday, August 4, 2009, WFTV.Com broke the story FDLE: DCF Worker Stole $40K In Tax Dollars.
Corita Adams, a supervisior with the Department of Children and Families’ (DCF) food stamp program quit her job late Tuesday afternoon after she was charged with stealing more than $40,000 from government assistance programs.
WFTV.COM further exposed that:
State agents say Corita Adams used her knowledge from DCF to fraudulently apply for government money.Corita Adams was working at a DCF office when she was arrested. Federal Department of Law Enforcement investigators burst into her office and they say she was surprised to see them.Eyewitness News learned that Adams was well-liked at work and well-respected. She was promoted to supervisor just six months ago after a career at DCF that spanned 15 years.
These issues of state-managed federally subsidized programs in the area of social services are plagued with accountability issues in both the judiciary and the executive branch.
Some additional examples of misspent federally subsidized programs that you might of recently missed:
Report: Fla. Child-Welfare Workers Falsified Data. More than 70 Florida child-welfare workers falsified records in the last two years, leaving 14 children in unsafe homes and causing the state Department of Children and Families to temporarily lose track of at least six other children.
Pennsylvania Judicial Corruption: What About Judges Jailing Parents for Cash? “They sold their oaths of offices to the highest bidders,” Deron Roberts, chief of the FBI’s Scranton office, said at a news conference Monday. (Source:AOL NEWS; 2 Pa. Judges to Plead Guilty to Public Corruption; Orig. Article; Jan. 27, 2009)
Fort Bend Woman Guilty in Child Support Fraud Ring ~ ”Fort Bend County jury has found 42-year-old Debra Hodge guilty of engaging in organized criminal activity for her part in bilking over $40,000 in fraudulent child support from the Texas Attorney General’s Office.”
Child Support Worker Arrested in Bribery Scheme ~ “ORLANDO, Fla. — A former employee of the Department of Revenue’s Child Support Enforcement program was arrested Thursday on bribery charges.” (Local6.Com “Child Support Worker Arrested In Bribery Scheme” March 8, 2007)
Title IV-D Employee Embezzles Quarter of Million in Child Support Enforcement Money ~ “A Natomas woman stands accused of bilking the state Department of Child Support Services of more than $250,000, turning her procurement job into a means of buying a Lexus, hot tub and big-screen television, among other things.”
The Weekly Standard Indicts CSE Title IV-D Welfare Program ~ “There is mounting evidence that the system now encourages marital breakup and exacerbates fatherlessness by creating a winner-take-all game, where the losing parent–commonly a father wanting to save the marriage–is unfairly penalized by the loss of his children and by a federally enforced child support obligation.”
Federal Child Support Enforcement Program Makes Little “Cents” to the Taxpayer ~ “So the man, named Michael Eugene Lamb, is going into prison at the age of 49, sitting there on a federal conviction, and coming out sometime when he is almost 51 years old. The federal system will charge the taxpayers for his 1.5 year confinement at a cost between $30,000.00 to $50,000.00 depending on the facility and not including any health issues of the confined.”
Child Support Clerk Charged With Embezzlement: More Government Corruption ~ “Another County employee, this one in Lauderdale County, has been indicted by a grand jury on felony embezzlement charges for allegedly stealing more than $216,000.00 of program money, paid for by taxpayers, by writing unauthorized checks to herself from January 2002 through April of 2007. This employee was released on a $10,000.00 bond, which no doubt was probably a drop in the bucket considering she has already been sitting on the $216,000.00 plus her lush salary.”
Two Main Media Outlets Reprot More Thieving Title IV-D/CSE Employees ~ “Two separate reports have come out about a Maine Child Support Enforcement Worker (Title IV-D Employee) that has been stealing money orders from children the agency touts to protect. This most recent employee, who is now on administrative leave pending investigation, was reported as intercepting money orders and depositing them in her personal bank account.”
Mounting Accountability Problems With Child Support Programs: Data Stolen ~ “Yuba County scrambled this week to contact 70,000 people whose names and personal information were on a laptop computer stolen from the new Child Support Services office in Linda. County officials said the stolen laptop contained Social Security numbers, birth dates, driver’s license numbers and other private information on 70,000 people+.”
Identity Theft: Opt Out of Family Court Services Before it Happens to YOU! ~ “…customers in at least three states have already experienced serious breaches in their personal information, including social security numbers being compromised and potentially handed over to hackers that might want to steal identities in the last few months alone.”
Mounting accountability problems exist in nearly every area of social services related programs at both the federal and the state levels. The list above represents only a limited list of headlines that were determined to demonstrate corruption, extortion, and other activities to the detriment of the taxpayers.
For more information on these issues, you may contact Lary Holland at the Get Your Justice Live News Network by telephone: 517-325-3789.
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