An Arizona man, Jalil Al-Kinani, who stole federal funding by defrauding the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has been sentenced to 18-months of supervised probation, and was ordered to pay $13,784.00 to HUD for restitution.
According to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, Al-Kinani misrepresented his employment status and income to HUD in order to obtain housing assistance from June 2019 to November 2020. Al-Kinani reported he was unemployed and received a total income of approximately $100 per month on his HUD paperwork, when, in reality, he was employed and received approximately $59,952.72 that year, far exceeding $100 per month, which would have disqualified him from receiving housing assistance. Based on his falsely reported income, Al-Kinani received $13,784.00 in financial assistance from HUD.
Al-Kinani was convicted of Compounding, a Class 6 undesignated offense, and will pay restitution in the full amount.
Who knows, if he had to pay half his salary in alimony maybe he did qualify as being in the poor house, just not by the letter of the law. As far as fraud goes, this doesn’t seem to me to be get-rich scheme. I hope he gets himself straightened out.
Scum
Jalil Al-Kinani is just a symptom of a failed system. When state or local, or even federal, government is allowed to take money out citizens hands to support other citizens, democracy is on its way out. No one is safe from the excessive and needless taxation this system produces. It’s not a surprise that some unscrupulous people attempt to feed from the government honey pot. Government bureaucrats know absolutely nothing about who actually needs assistance. This is a function that private charity can handle much more efficiently.
18 month probation and restitution? Sorry, not punishment enough for defrauding the public.
Unfortunately far too many greedy are willing to steal the support meant to help the needy. It is Justice to punish those who cheat.
Lowlife