Friday, June 25, 2004

Think Of It As Socialism In Action

A Tampa, Florida television station reports:

A former Department of Children & Families worker was arrested on charges that she conned elderly and low-income clients into paying her for services that were supposed to be free.

Maria del Carmen Garcia, 44, took hundreds of dollars from at least five victims, police said. In most cases, she promised to help the victims get into a rental-assistance program for the poor, if they paid her $250.

Garcia faces six counts of unlawful compensation for official behavior and one count of organized fraud. She was being held Wednesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on $125,000 bail.

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