$352,300ordered repaid by a nonprofit employee who named her own family as landlords
An employee of the Indiana nonprofit trusted to distribute pandemic rental aid falsely listed her own family members as landlords, and was ordered to repay $352,300 after being sentenced to 24 months in prison.
Valencia Franklin worked for the Merrillville, Indiana nonprofit that administered the funds, then defrauded her own employer in 2021.
Source: US Department of Justice, US Attorney's Office, Northern District of Indiana. Read more: rental assistance program fraud · case file