Assistant Property Manager, Maintenance Man Cop Guilty Pleas In Conspiracy To $queeze Bribes Out Of Unqualified Prospective Tenants To Add Them Onto Already-Closed Waiting List For Boston Section 8 Subsidized Housing Complex

From the Office of the U.S. Attorney (Boston, Massachusetts):

• A former maintenance technician for Roxse Homes, a subsidized housing development in Boston, was sentenced [] in U.S. District Court in Boston for his role in a scheme to rent apartments at the housing development to individuals who were not qualified, in exchange for cash bribes.
  
  Ismael Morales, 36, of Jamaica Plain, was sentenced [...] to two years in prison and two years of supervised release. [...] His co-defendant, Mathis Lemons, 42, of Brockton, also pleaded guilty to the same charges and is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 20, 2016.
  
  Lemons was the assistant property manager and Morales worked as a maintenance technician for Roxse Homes, a subsidized housing development on Tremont Street in Roxbury.
  
  At Roxse Homes, eligible low-income families and individuals can obtain rental housing for a subsidized rate with Section 8 housing benefits from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In 2014, there was a shortage of federally subsidized Section 8 housing in Massachusetts, and Roxse Homes maintained a long waitlist of applicants desiring apartments in the complex. The Roxse Homes waitlist had been closed to external applicants since 2009.
  
  From September 2014 to February 2015, Lemons and Morales conspired to rent apartments to individuals who were not eligible for subsidized Roxse Homes apartments because they were not on the waitlist. Morales solicited and accepted money from individuals, and provided those individuals with blank rental applications. Morales also instructed some of the individuals not to date their applications, or to date their applications in 2006 or 2009, when in fact the applications were actually completed in 2014. Lemons then added the unqualified individuals to the Roxse Homes computerized waitlist, and falsely inputted their application dates as 2006 or 2009.

Source: Former Roxse Homes Worker Sentenced for Taking Bribes.