Landlord Charged With Illegally Pocketing $7,900+ In Food Stamp Benefits While Failing To Report $83K In Rental Income To Welfare Authorities

In New York City, the New York Post reports:

• A Bronx landlord has been busted for receiving nearly $8,000 in food stamps — without disclosing that she was also collecting $83,000 in rent from two apartment buildings she owned in upstate Troy, investigators said [].
  
  Authorities also discovered that landlord Alina Griffen-Dowe, 36, earned at least $12,880 at a part-time job at a law firm that she did not report to the government.
  
  “This defendant collected food stamps in the Bronx while collecting rent payment from her tenants in Troy, allegedly manipulating the welfare system to improperly divert public benefits to which she was not entitled,” said state Welfare Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott.
  
  State investigators conducted the probe with the city Human Resources Administration, which administers welfare benefits in the five boroughs. The Bronx DA’s office is prosecuting the case.
  
  Griffen-Dowe, a resident of Tryon Avenue in the Bronx, was charged with several counts of welfare fraud, grand larceny, filing a false instrument and petit larceny. [...]
  
  The probe determined that Griffen-Dowe allegedly collected $7,927 in food stamp benefits from January 2012 to January 2015. During the same period, she failed to report $83,000 in rental income from tenants residing in her two Troy buildings, as well as income from her law firm job. [...]

Source: Landlord got food stamps while raking in $83,000 in rent: officials.