Posted on 12/22/2025 9:02:07 AM PST by DFG
Former Madera County benefits eligibility worker Leticia Mariscal, 55, of Madera, was arrested today on charges that she stole tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of other people’s CalFresh benefits during a multiyear scheme, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced. CalFresh is a financial assistance program that provides qualifying California residents with monetary benefits they can use to buy food. It was formerly known as the food stamp program.
According to court records, between December 2020 and April 2025, Mariscal improperly used county databases to which she had access through her job to obtain identifying information for individuals who were elderly or deceased. She then secretly approved these individuals to receive CalFresh benefits, printed EBT cards in their names with the benefits deposited thereon and spent the proceeds. Altogether, Mariscal used the identities of more than 15 people to steal benefits totaling more than $40,000. She was placed on leave earlier this year when her scheme was discovered.
This case is the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with assistance from the Madera County District Attorney’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Barton is prosecuting the case.
If convicted, Mariscal faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for stealing CalFresh benefits. She also faces an additional two years in prison for misusing other people’s identities to commit the crime. Any sentence, however, would be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables. The charges are only allegations; the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Say it ain’t so! A dishonest bureaucRAT!?
I hope it was paid leave. That'll learn 'er.
“Leticia”
That pretty much sums thing ups.
Condemned to a life of crime the moment her parent named her.
🤔 hmmmm …..
This theft is only possible because swamp creature Deloitte IES Integrated Eligibility System is a fraud of BILLIONS while this poor guy only steals 40,000.
The EMPI Enterprise Master Person Index of IES is designed and coded to encourage dead persons who are active recipients. It is coded to give Sue Smith, Susan Smith and Susan Jones-Smith each a separate and distinct ID and benefits even though these 3 all have the same Birth Date, Address and Social Security Number.
Until he SWAMP is cleansed of the Deloitte Welfare Pimps and Parasites, the problem will continue.
Deport her to Minneapolis.
Please don’t. We have too many as it is.
Oh no! Madera is such a nice poor migrant (read Mexicans) community to travel through.
Criminals need to start officially losing appendages.
This is how they ghost vote, too.
Madera County, Kalifornia! That is one of the far-away-from-everything places that Kalifornia has chosen to begin construction of the Kalifornia Super Train To Nowhere. Billions and billions “spent” already. No train, no tracks.
Definitely knew how to work the system.
We know.
Couldn't a simple algorithm pick that up?
$40,000 is not worth it. She should have went for the really big payday /S
Deloitte refuses to write normal code, refuses normal design.
Ten years ago the CIO of the department that receives the Deloitte garbage retired from that department and came back as a consultant to the department that contracts for Deloitte. His goal was to improve the design and coding of the GA Deloitte IES. Deloitte refused to make its EMPI a true Master Person Index and Deloitte won in battles in the swamp.
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