Orange County, NY – An Orange County Medicaid worker has filed suit claiming she was demoted and transferred after she uncovered some $40M in welfare fraud on behalf of the residents of Kiryas Joel and reported it to her bosses.
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HUDSONVALLEY.NEWS12.com (http://bit.ly/1R2BOX4) reports that Nicole Latreille says she discovered evidence of welfare fraud last year right around the time when records first began surfacing showing that a disproportionate amount of KJ residents were receiving social services.
Latreille said she subsequently forwarded the evidence to her supervisor who, in turn, passed in along to the FBI.
Shortly thereafter, Latreille claims she was demoted and then transferred.
A source for the county rejected Latreille’s claim, saying that the action taken against her stemmed not from her findings, but due to prejudicial comments she made with regard to the investigation.
Latreille’s attorney, Michael Sussman, dismissed that account, saying, “She was simply following the evidence that was available, and quite frankly she should’ve gotten an award rather than be disciplined.”
A subsequent county source would say only that Latreille’s lawsuit is “baseless.”
Whether her claim has merit or not is not relevant to me. What is so proudly disturbing is the evidence that she uncovered. What a terrible Chilul Ha-Shem!
Why are so many of our co-religionists continue to rationalize that illegal behavior by certain members of minority groups gives them permission to do the same? A shandeh!
If true, and I pray it’s not, then this is a massive chillul hashem, and there have been too many chillul hashems in recent years with frum Jews defrauding the government which is assur l’halacha too. I hope its not true, I really do. This is why we frum people need to make sure were are even more careful with money than anyone else
Frum Yiddin committing welfare fraud? It can’t be true.
The fraud part is not a new story it was reported a couple of months ago. It was a major big bust of 30 or more people most were not Jewish. And the Jews of course are innocent!
It’s amazing how a day after Yom Kippur so many people rush to judge. Who says that these people aren’t eligible for Medicaid or child health plus??? If you look at Medicaid guidelines in NY for a family of 9 (two adults 7 children) – which is the average KJ family you can earn up to 96,420 a year and be legally eligible for some sort of government assistance. So how many people in KJ earn more then that???? Very few! So do your research before jumping to comment against your fellow brethren!
Oh and a family of 9 can earn up to 57,408 and be eligible for Food Stemps. Not many frum people in KJ earn that kind of money
She’s a bigot and and anti semite. She should be happy she wasnt fired. She should go after her own people in the projects. She will find alot more of what she is looking for.
There are very large families in religious communities, some as many as 18 children. Families that large are entitled to legal government support. In fact unless you are super wealthy it does not pay to work if you have between 15 and 21 children. Yes there are frum families with 21 children and non are twins or children of second marriage. I know some here in Brooklyn. As far as families traveling to simchas, many people help them with tickets. I myself gave some of my extra points to one such family who needed to travel. There is nothing illegal about helping large frum families. We need more frum Jews in order to save society from the secular reform liberals who are destroying America and israel.
you have to understand everything cost so much, the rabbis are not helping out, and they are having nice cars nice houses in a few places around the world, and they are teaching us what to do, not to work, and to stealing money from each other, “what can we the people do”
I don’t know how one can misreport income. I make barely enough to live on and can’t even get free health insurance or food stamps.
not surprising at all,but where is the FBI and what are they doing about it?
the school district of KJ is not being used only by 200 disable kids, and the taxes for that was last year over $22million dollars from the residents, if they’re stealing money, what should “we the people do”
If the govenment gives them the mony whats so wrong?
It’s amazing how our own yiden are so ready to condemn our own. Whenever there is a major bust at Medicaid, the majority are usually employees, none of them yiden (or white). I’m sure she investigated just because she wanted to do the right thing, not because she and her townsfolk hate us so.