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Minneapolis Day-Care Scammer Gets Five Years
April 12, 2004
Another day, another day-care operator nailed for ripping off taxpayers. Zhia Vang ran a Minneapolis day-care center, and worked up phony applications from, and phony employment verification forms for "low-income" parents "seeking" government-subsidized day-care, and food and nutrition funding for their children. She was then able to get government funds distributed through Hennepin County and the Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association. A few problems: the parents weren't low income, nor were most even aware of Vang's actions. She rarely cared for the children, and spent the loot on personal property such as cars and homes. Vang was sentenced to five years and four months in jail, and will have to repay $660,000, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Time for some asset divestiture, I'd expect. It would be nice if this were an isolated case of malfeasance among day-care operators. Unfortunately it's not, as this recent Rosenblog post illustrates. Posted by Matt Rosenberg at April 12, 2004 10:55 AM Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: Comments:
Big government. Lots of programs just invites fraud. No matter how many auditors are assigned. The parents wouldn't have paid for no service. But the state does. Posted by: Ron at April 12, 2004 08:41 PMThe same will happen with school vouchers - just wait. Posted by: Laura at June 28, 2004 09:32 AMLaura Assume you are right. Doesn't the fact that voucher money is given to the parents rather than the schools an important difference? Parents can take their kids and the money elsewhere if there is school misconduct. If the money goes to the school, they cannot. Why is that not a significant difference? Posted by: Tom Rekdal at June 28, 2004 04:29 PMLaura Assume you are right. Doesn't the fact that voucher money is given to the parents rather than the schools an important difference? Parents can take their kids and the money elsewhere if there is school misconduct. If the money goes to the school, they cannot. Why is that not a significant difference? Posted by: Tom Rekdal at June 28, 2004 04:30 PMI'm not necessarily talking about school misconduct. I'm talking about fraud. It's happened here over and over, when the state starts making money available: for daycare when welfare reform came in, and for MCOs when Tenncare came in. Crooks are lined up ready to siphon it up and there is never sufficient oversight set up from the beginning, sometimes by design I'm sorry to say. Yes, there are big scandals, and trials and so forth, but the money is spent and gone. Vouchers will be no different. They could be but they won't. Posted by: Laura at June 28, 2004 06:44 PMPost a comment
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