http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/02/11/2009-02-11_fostercare_scam_grows_by_155g.html
Foster-care scam grows by $155G
BY Thomas Zambito
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, February 11th 2009, 7:15 PM
Three women took $155,000 in city funds to care for foster kids they never saw, federal prosecutors said Wednesday as their probe into sham adoption subsidies widened.
Mother and daughter Oletha Rhodes and Tammy Moore took $100,000 in welfare subsidies, Manhattan federal prosecutors said. The money was funneled their way by Nigel Osarenkhoe, a former adoptions supervisor for the city’s Administration for Children’s Services, prosecutors say.
Rhodes works as a lunchroom aide at Queens Vocational High School and Moore is a seasonal employee for the city’s Housing Authority who used to work at ACS.
Also charged was Brenda Towe, a relative of a dead ACS employee, who’s accused of accepting $55,000 in bogus subsidies.
Of the three, only Rhodes cared for foster kids, and she took more money than she was entitled to, prosecutors said.
In exchange for kickbacks, Osarenkhoe doled out $578,000 in adoption subsidies to numerous individuals by claiming they needed the cash to care for hard-to-place foster kids, prosecutors say.
Also yesterday, accused co-conspirator Philbert Gorrick, 54, pleaded guilty to accepting $375,000 in illegal payments from former ACS official Lethem Duncan.
So were the foster kids they were supposed to be taking care of real children or were they made up children…if they were real children, then where the hell are they. I want to know more about how they managed to pull this off for so long…and people believe children are safe with CPS when they have people like this working for them…unbelievable!
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don’t believe everything you read, I think this is a lie. I know these people personally and that is not what happened!! I hope they sue the journalist that wrote this.
Knowing the law about slander and libel, most news stories are not printed or told unless they have documented proof before them, so….
The fine print is in the writing. “I know these people personally, I THINK this is a lie.” Like always everything with them is a Lie.
I know them personally also and they are crooks and they sit on they fat asses and talk about everybody. they need Jesus and jail
THEY ARE TRASH AND NEED TO GO TO JAIL.
OH, I FORGOT, THESE PEOPLE APPEAR TO BE MESSED UP INDIVIUALS WHO HAS FAILED IN THEIR OWN LIVES AND WANT TO RIPE THE FINANICAL BENEFITS OF OTHERS, I’M GLAD THEY WERE CAUGHT RED HANDED…… AS FOR THERE FIREND…. GO STRAIGHT TO HELL BECAUSE GOD WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR PROTECTING THESE “people”.
OH, I FORGOT, THESE PEOPLE APPEAR TO BE MESSED UP INDIVIUALS WHO HAS FAILED IN THEIR OWN LIVES AND WANT TO RIPE THE FINANICAL BENEFITS OF OTHERS, I’M GLAD THEY WERE CAUGHT RED HANDED…… AS FOR THERE FIREND…. GO STRAIGHT TO HELL BECAUSE GOD WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR PROTECTING THESE “people”.
This is a shame. lock them up and toss the key in the river.
I agree!!!!
I know the mother and daughter and they are truly nice individuals. I will keep you and your daughter in my prayer