Hey, hey! Look at this!
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Posted on 03/21/2014 6:04:00 PM PDT by rickmichaels
A couple who collected food stamps and other public assistance from Minnesota while living on a yacht in Florida were being sought on fraud charges, prosecutors said on Friday.
Colin Chisholm III and his wife, Andrea Chisholm, accepted more than $165,000 in public assistance between 2005 and 2012 before benefits were terminated, according to prosecutor Mike Freeman in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
Charges against Colin Chisholm were filed in February but they were kept sealed while police searched for the couple, Chuck Laszewski, a spokesman for Freeman, said on Friday. "They know by now we are looking for them."
The Chisholms are each charged with a felony count of wrongfully obtaining public assistance in excess of $35,000, the highest threshold under Minnesota law. Andrea Chisholm was charged on Thursday.
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Pikers compared to most democrats and global warming scientists.
No kidding. The pros usually gravitate toward green energy subsidies.
They must be white.
The Chisholms are old money socialist oligarch Canadian expatriatres. This will be ignored by the leftist socialists at the Toronto Sun.
how does one get that much assistance? all that money, for all those years! then their benefits were terminated... that's about $24,000 a year doing NADA!
Exactly. I know of one couple in DC that has collected over $400,000 a year, while living in government subsidized housing. They also dine regularly on steak, lobster while washing it down with champagne all paid for by the taxpayers!.
Word is he has never even had to prove that he is a US citizen.
Hey, hey! Look at this!
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Colin Chisholm was the chief executive officer of a satellite television and broadband services company, his wife bred and sold championship dogs, and over a seven-year period the couple deposited more than $2.6 million in bank accounts they did not report on applications for welfare benefits, according to the complaint.
They have lived in luxury homes in suburban Minneapolis, driven a $30,000 Lexus and also collected welfare benefits in Florida, the complaint said.
This fraud goes way beyond what you see above.
Well, one suspects that they returned the favor by voting.
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I used to worry about my children being saddled with the debt paying for all this foolishness. But the way things are accelerating I just try to teach them basic survival skills in hopes that they’ll be among the few who emerge from the rubble.
$30,000 Lexus? Certainly not a new one! And they’re certainly not car people!
idiots.
Is this any different than the welfare surfer in California?
May they spend many years behind bars.
This is different from other welfare grifters how?
You can be rich and you can starve.
Must be one of those “wealthy poor” we keep hearing so much about.
I demand the fraud charges against them be dropped immediately and their food benefit restored! Doesn’t Minnesota know that is classist?
I say catch them and terminate them. What’s the difference between execution or a death panel?
Lady Andrea? Her father is Delbert Eugene Brix born in Ellsworth, Iowa on August 15, 1930. His father George Elmer Brix was a school bus driver. Delbert married Ruth Lynne Larsen (b: Dec 10, 1937) in August 1957, daughter of Eloise and Stanley Larsen, both of Iowa.
Colin A. Chisholm III (b: Nov 23, 1951) married Andrea L. Brix (b: March 11, 1960) on November 3, 2001 in Greenwich, CT. She was previously married on Aug 4, 1985 to Joseph A. De Rosa and on Jan 4, 2000 to Wah H. Leong.
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