Woman living in luxury sentenced for stealing up to $377,000 in government benefits

Palm Beach Post via WPXI ^ | April 11, 2014 | Jane Musgrave

[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.

[dfwgator]

Get a Rope!

[Presbyterian Reporter]

To emphasize Valle-Clas’ cunning, she showed Ryskamp two driver’s license photos of Valle-Clas. In one, she wears glasses, has bangs and uses the name Gloria LopezClas. In the other, she has her hair pulled back, no glasses and calls herself Nereida Valle. The photos, Bell said, were taken a day apart.

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Anybody check to see if she registered to vote under both names? Or did she vote twice?

[no-to-illegals]

One criminal act normally does beget another.

[no-to-illegals]

Was dismayed today to find out more rules are being made up. Today a State Employee told me that P.O.A.s are not recognized by my State. LOL ... I knew the Feds were this way but now my State says no P.O.A.s are recognized. Attorneys, in my State, are about to receive an earful. 10^th Amendment is gone. I suspected but now know for certain.

[Kit cat]

SHE MANAGED to get her photo ID’S didn’t she!!!!!

[ourworldawry]

“...Featuring Crayola’s new color “Entitlement”!”

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lol, very goooood.

[tgusa]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

get lost, troll.

[Little Ray]

I really meant “Who cares what race she is?”
While I am aware of racially related crime statistics, like blacks committing about 70% of violent crime, that should not be considered. There should be no “race” or “status” or “celebrity” or “affluenza” when you face the Judge.
But I hate frauds. Assuming they are not violent, I do not think they should be sent to prison, but I think they should forced to pay it back tripled. And, if they can’t pay in money, they should be cut up for spare parts so that they can pay their debt to society in blood and organs.

[Michael.SF.]

you missed the point.

[ourworldawry]

“Cliven Bundy has been stealing from the public good for years. What is his pigmentation?”

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Surely, you jest.

[Democrat_media]

you are a marxist . where in the Constitution does it say the Federal government can own most of the land in Nevada or that unelected government agencies can have armies and use them against citizens. prove all of these. you trust government don’t you socialist/democrat.