Hmmm .... the facts are starting to come out.
Do I have this correct? The place to stay and training courses were refused, but money and food accepted!?
Sound like hustlers, IMO.
Yes, you have it right!
Their names appear to come up listed as “owner(s)” on three distinct public housing units going back as far as 1983 - one in Georgia and two in Florida. As to reports she was living with “friends” in New York, that appears to be the home of her parents.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/02/henrietta-hughes-how-many-homes.html
property records in Lee County, Fla. discovered two people, Henrietta C. Hughes and Corey L. Hughes (son), possessed the wherewithal to pay off a six-figure mortgage in less than two years
On Oct. 29, 2001, Henrietta C. Hughes and her son, Corey L. Hughes, took on a $124,400 mortgage;
On Oct. 16, 2003, Henrietta C. Hughes and her son, Corey L. Hughes, paid off that mortgage as evidenced by the filing of a satisfaction document; and
On Aug. 9, 2006, Henrietta C. Hughes filed a Quit Claim Deed that effectively turned over all rights to the paid-off an adjacent piece of property listed in the documents above to her son, Corey L. Hughes.
http://bobmccarty.com/2009/02/12/documents-shed-new-light-on-homeless-henrietta/
on Tuesday when Henrietta told President Obama there’s no help for her and she has no place to go, Tanya Johnson got angry.
“It gives me a little sour stomach. Because we stretched our hands out to her,” said Johnson. “We have people here in Lee County that just are plain old system workers and know how to work the system. And I feel that’s where Henrietta is now in terms of working the system.
Hughes wanted the American dream! But at age 28 the dream was put on hold. Diagnosed with breast cancer, she had a mastectomy. It would be the first of many health hurdles.
Over the years she would battle cancer several more times.
“That’s when he gave me up to die. There was no hope,” she said.
Hope had run out. She says she became disabled. Eventually she and her son lost their Lehigh Acres home.
“He lost his job so we had to give the house back to the bank,” Hughes said.
That was in 2003. Since then they have lived in a truck.
Henrietta says help from the Government turned out to be a dead end.
“I get a referral from this person that person until there was no more referrals to go.”
Henrietta does have family living in Fort Myers. We asked why she doesn’t stay with them. She said she didn’t want to discuss it.