Posted on 07/22/2010 4:58:36 AM PDT by TSgt
The Butler County Prosecutor calls one fraud case an outrageous case of greed. Now, a mother from Warren County could go to prison for years. Terry Rivarde and her family moved here from Louisiana after hurricane Katrina and began receiving federal aid. The problem is, they didn't stop after they got back on their feet.
Local 12's Deborah Dixon tells us a jury says she took advantage of the system, and didn't stop.
Terry Rivarde was convicted of grand theft for lying on applications and taking money she didn't need or deserve. FEMA paid for the Louisiana family's rent at a Warren County apartment after Katrina. But documents show Terry Rivarde filled out applications in Butler County to get food stamps and medicaid. She gave a phony address and said no one in the family was making money, when her husband was making a hundred grand at his new job.
Robin Piper, Butler County Prosecutor: "To most people that's two household incomes with 100 thousand dollars in the house she's going around buying dinners taking care of fluff dog she has."
That fluff dog is a Shitsu, similar to this named Papi. While getting government assistance from March 2006 to October, Rivarde wrote 14 hundred dollars in checks to a dog grooming boutique. During that same time, while her husband had medical benefits, she collected more than six thousand dollars in Medicaid. And from November 2005 to October 2006 spent 73 hundred dollars in food stamps. The Rivarde's saved enough money to move to a home on this Warren County golf course. They no longer live there.
"It is greed, makes criminal mind decide it's easier way to get more than you deserve."
Rivarde agreed to pay the county back more than 13 thousand dollars to avoid a trial, but never did. Now, she is convicted of grand theft.
"I would hope the court would see, not a matter of testing system and getting caught, it's a matter of cheating resources from people who need it."
Rivardi will be sentenced next month. She's facing 11 years in prison. She'll likely be asked to pay the county back. An alert social services case worker in Butler County first discovered the fraud.
Now, a mother from Warren County could go to prison for years. Ha ha ha ha. No prison, take that to the bank.
People like this need to go to prison for a long time, and an example made for all others.
The Butler county prosecutor, if he is indeed the one being quoted, sounds like a complete dolt.
I would bet cold, hard cash that this is only the tip of the iceberg....
I would love to know what type of job her husband has. Aff act hire?
LOL.......the SAME thing struck me reading this drivel. Either A) the reporter’s an idiot, or B) the prosecutor is an idiot, or C) English is not the prosecutor’s first language.
In Ohio, at that!!
The sad thing is I bet she still thinks she was entitled to those government benefits...
Our society is infested with leeches like this, primarily thanks to Johnson's (not so)Great Society. This Sherrod woman is another prime example. I wonder how much Obama's blunder with Sherrod is going to cost the taxpayers when she decides to sue the USDA for wrongful discharge?
Nothing new here, that’s how things are done in New Orleans, she is owed it after all (that is the attitude of so many, thanks to our government). And another reason why New Orleans is coming back so strong, a lot of the government assistance people left the city after Katrina.
Thanks to Gov. Perry, many of those same types of assistance sucking slugs wound up in Texas. Some saw it as a chance to start a new life, OFF the government dole. Others couldn’t put down the assistance crackpipe.
Is it possible that the family income was $100K before Katrina - and if so - they paid their *fair* share of taxea during the *good times*.
She may have determined she was not so much *entitled* as *invested* in the Nanny State.
Just offering a different perspective;)
...And reported it after Rivardi refused to cut her in on the scam.
You have that right. My hope is that the silver lining to this government assistance disease is that enough people will see it, stand up and put a stop to it.
This woman had to be pretty stupid to get caught. Obama has the USDA under a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy when it comes to giving out food stamps. (if you write $28,000 on your form they are supposed to accept that and not question it)
This mindset -- that people deserve the government handouts -- is a big part of the problem. People deserve only what they earn. You don't deserve a handout just because your lungs are drawing breath. When people fall on hard times, or after a natural disaster, or whatever, there are public assistance options and charities that provide relief, but it has nothing to do with people deserving it.
I’ll go with A).
And I thought only major corporations and banks got bail-outs!
the hell with jail....PAY THE MONEY BACK WITH INTEREST!
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