Thread: Cops:Bay Shore Woman Stole ID to Get Rent Subsidies

Cops: Bay Shore woman stole ID to get rent subsidies
BY JOSEPH MALLIA | joseph.mallia@newsday.com
9:59 AM EST, January 16, 2009

A Bay Shore woman who used someone else's identity to qualify for more than $32,000 in government rent payments was arrested Thursday, Suffolk County police said.

She was also charged with possessing a forged immigration document.

Olufunke Fatimehin, 38, of 105 Howells Rd., got the federal Housing and Urban Development rent subsidies by fraudulently using another person's Social Security number on an October 2005 application for the Section 8 money, police said.

When she was arrested at the Centereach office of the Community Development Corp. of Long Island, she also was carrying a forged Immigration and Customs Enforcement resident alien card, police said.

Investigators from the HUD inspector general's office assisted with the case.

Fatimehin was charged with third-degree grand larceny, first-degree identify theft and criminal possession of a forged instrument. She was scheduled for arraignment Friday at First District Court in Central Islip.

Suffolk detectives are continuing to investigate.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffo ... 8986.story

This is the reason I am against illegals.
That and the crimes to innocent people.
If more people, like the stupid MSM, got some these stories out more,
I think people would change their minds about them
But the stories are hid somewhere inside the paper..

MSM here keeps insisting IA's CAN'T get welfare, housing assistance etc. because there are laws against it. Just ask Albor Ruiz who writes for the NY Daily News.

Originally Posted by Ratbstard

MSM here keeps insisting IA's CAN'T get welfare, housing assistance etc. because there are laws against it. Just ask Albor Ruiz who writes for the NY Daily News.

I think every state is different and our Government is very Liberal about giving illegals benefits.