Danet Reddick, Jacqueline Coleman, and Celia Aquino, three New York City residents were arrested and variously charged with Grand Larceny, Offering a False Instrument for Filing, falsifying business records and criminal possession of a forged instrument.
Between March 2007 and March 2009, Reddick allegedly misrepresented to the New York City Housing Association’s (NYCHA) Section 8 voucher program that she is single and has a low income. As a result, NYCHA subsidized over $21,000 in rental subsidies when Reddick is in fact married and is ineligible to obtain subsidies due to her and her spouses’ combined income.
Between December 2005 and 2008, Coleman purportedly misrepresented to NYCHA that she was unemployed and has low income by filing to file affidavits of income with the NYCHA. However, investigators revealed that she was employed from 2007 and 2009 and earned an income that deems her ineligible for Section 8.
Between 2005 and 2008, Aquino supposedly failed to report her cohabitant’s residence in her apartment to the NYCHA. As a result the NYCHA lost approximately $10,074 to Aquino’s misrepresentations.
If convicted, the defendants face a maximum penalty of 7-15 years in prison.
