We done struck it rich!
Posted on 07/18/2026 10:07:40 AM PDT by dennisw
The backgrounds of the two defendants add an unusual wrinkle to the case. Langley was identified as an Essence magazine curvy model and Allen as a missionary and actress who starred in Netflix’s “Concrete Cowboy,” an unlikely pairing for a federal health care fraud conviction.
Candice Langley, a former Essence model and Cynthia Allen, an actress who starred in Netflix’s “Concrete Cowboy,” pleaded guilty to health care fraud charges.
Two women who traveled from Philadelphia to Minnesota with the explicit aim of exploiting a taxpayer-funded program now stand as convicted felons.
According to KARE 11, Candice Langley and Cynthia Allen pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, admitting they siphoned roughly $3.4 million from a Medicaid program designed to help vulnerable adults secure housing.
Federal prosecutors say the pair set up Housing Stabilization Services companies in Minneapolis after concluding the program amounted to “easy money,” according to KARE 11’s reporting. Court documents describe a scheme built on fabricated client records and inflated billing, with the two collecting millions for services that, in many cases, appear never to have been meaningfully delivered.
The human cost came through in an interview the outlet conducted with Terrance Darby, who said he was living in a homeless shelter while Langley’s company submitted Medicaid claims in his name. Presented with records showing at least $1,600 billed on his behalf, Darby told KARE 11 Investigates the help he actually received was worth “zero,” adding plainly, “I didn’t get anything.”
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We done struck it rich!
Color me shocked.
A model and an actress smart enough to exploit loopholes in charity programs in a state far from their home?
Gosh. I wonder if they had help.
“Well we’re movin’ on up....”
It’s ok, they are just misunderstood ABW. Get an Obama judge and they’ll be fine.
FYI Essence is a magazine designed for a particular gender of a particular ethnicity.
This is so sad Philadelphia! Your women have to travel out of state to get an equal opportunity to scam the Federal Government. Why can’t Pennsylvania help its own citizens scam the Federal Government?
Candice Langley and Cynthia Allen pleaded guilty to health care
fraud, an unlikely pair of federal health care fraud convicts.
<><>Langley was an Essence magazine curvy model
<><>Allen ID’ed as a “missionary” and an actress who starred in Netflix’s “Concrete Cowboy.”
Certainly a cut above shoplifting eh?
I had them nailed immediately when I saw that description in the second sentence.
I’m beginning to think that black people thought white federal employees or elected officials were all stealing at their job. Then when they got into those positions, they thought “my turn” and started stealing as if it was their right because “everyone does it”.
Man, Milli-Vanilli has let themselves go.
Bwa ha. Girl, you know it’s true.
Maybe Ilhan Omar is marketing fraud schemes to other states. Her $30 million account came from some where, she didn’t earn it in Somalia.
I knew it would be them, Yogi.
The singer Terrance Darby??
Whatever happened to him, anyway, he just fell off the face of the Earth.
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