Posted on 04/15/2014 9:50:52 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — With a round pool in the backyard, a Mercedes and a boat in the driveway and a greenhouse and an aviary nearby, the Florida house doesn’t look like it was owned by someone who qualified for public assistance.
But it was.
While living the life of luxury on a 1-acre manicured lot, Gloria Valle-Clas collected between $305,000 and $377,000 in food stamps, housing assistance and Medicaid benefits. Using two separate Social Security numbers and as many as 12 aliases, she duped government agencies into sending her monthly assistance checks and picking up her medical bills for nearly a decade.
“Conduct like this should incense all Americans,” U.S. District Judge Kenneth Ryskamp said Thursday. “To be ripping off our government — every agency by every means possible.”
While her attorney Gregg Lerman suggested a roughly 3 1/2-year sentence, Ryskamp said that wasn’t enough. He tacked on roughly another year.
“I just think this is about as low as it gets,” Ryskamp said in sentencing Valle-Clas to 51 months in prison, the maximum allowed under federal rules. He also ordered her to pay $283,359 in restitution.
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Shoot, with skills like that, she should be working FOR the gummint, where her take could be 1,000 times greater!
Can I ask a stupid question?
Why is the amount of restitution to be paid less than the amount stolen?
obama’s kin?
I think they were being sarcastic.................
Who cares?
Let's tell it like it is, eh judge?
Actually, when I first saw the headline, I thought this might be a story about a Lois Lerner or a Nancy Pelosi, but then realized the amount was far too small.
And now he’s getting free room and board...
Wonder how many thousands of other people are getting away with it?.
Only the government could be so sloppy.
“Her 41-year-old husband, who benefited from his spouse’s schemes but played a minor role in them, was shown some mercy. Alexander Gonzalez was sentenced to 364 days in prison and ordered to repay the government $9,999.
His attorney Jonathan Friedman said a sentence of less than a year may help persuade an immigration judge to allow Gonzalez, who is in the country legally, to remain in the United States after he completes his prison term.”
Why would we want this trash to remain here?
That the government doesn’t have proper checks on this kind of thing and that she was able to rip them off for years is certainly damning evidence.
What company would let itself be ripped off like this?
You know Little Ray, I am starting to feel the same way.
In my opinion, we have pissed this once great nation away. Not a whole hell of a lot left to be proud to leave our children.
I for one will die in shame.
Reparation.
Will she blame affluenza?
Typical April 15th propaganda ploy. The IRS just caught someone cheating and goes public with it on tax day.
One down. Millions still to go.
Using two separate Social Security numbers and as many as 12 aliases, she duped government agencies into sending her monthly assistance checks and picking up her medical bills for nearly a decade.
Sounds to me like she could be elected president.
Should be easy enough to investigate how many of those aliases are registered democrat voters and how many of them voted in the last two presidential elections.
I hope so Badge!
Cliven Bundy has been stealing from the public good for years. What is his pigmentation?
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