{"id":8779,"date":"2015-01-26T12:46:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T20:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2015-01-26T12:46:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T20:46:51","slug":"former-new-orleans-cop-admits-stealing-federal-money-earmarked-low-income-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=8779","title":{"rendered":"Former New Orleans Cop Admits to Stealing Federal Money Earmarked for Low-Income Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8780\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8780\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tracie-Medus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8780 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tracie-Medus-150x150.png\" alt=\"Tracie Medus\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracie Medus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>NEW ORLEANS &#8211; \u00a0<\/strong>A former New Orleans police officer plead guilty to stealing government money by defrauding a federally funded program that enabled low-income families displaced by Hurricane Katrina to return to Louisiana, federal officials<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracie Medus<\/strong>, age 39, of New Orleans, pled guilty last week to theft of government funds of more than $158,000, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Medus, a 17-year veteran of the department, faces up to ten years in prison and a fine of up to twice the theft amount, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing is scheduled for April 30.<\/p>\n<p><strong>According to court documents, these are these facts and circumstances surrounding this case:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Medus admitted that she defrauded the federally funded Small Rental Property Program, a Louisiana Road Home program.<\/li>\n<li>The program provided money for landlords to repair units to be rented at specified low rates to approved low-income tenants.<\/li>\n<li>Road Home required that tenants be approved for income eligibility and to reside in units prior to landlords receiving funds.<\/li>\n<li>Medus obtained preliminary approval for an award by representing to Road Home that two low-income people were residing in her rental property and that they were paying low, Road Home-authorized rents.<\/li>\n<li>To support her application, Medus submitted a purported lease for each tenant.<\/li>\n<li>The leases were false in that they indicated that Medus charged the authorized rents when in fact she actually charged her unwitting tenants higher, impermissible rents.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, one of the leases was also false in that it listed an approved low-income tenant, when in fact a different person resided there instead.<\/li>\n<li>At her January 2010 award closing, Medus reaffirmed that the tenant of the first unit was paying the approved rent amount, knowing that in fact she had been continually overcharging him.<\/li>\n<li>Medus also reaffirmed that she was renting the second unit to the previously reported purported tenant and charging the authorized rent.<\/li>\n<li>In truth, she instead had been continually renting to an unreported person and charging more than the authorized rent. Based on these renewed misrepresentations, Road Home issued Medus $158,700.<\/li>\n<li>When she accepted the award, Medus acknowledged that she could be legally required to repay it if she failed to abide by its conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Unbeknownst to Road Home, Medus immediately violated the conditions by continuing to overcharge her tenants and by renting to the unreported tenant.<\/li>\n<li>In October 2010, Medus submitted a purported lease to Road Home indicating that a new tenant would pay the authorized rent.<\/li>\n<li>Again, the lease was false, as Medus actually charged her new unwitting tenant a higher, impermissible rent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Medus, who was employed as a New Orleans Police Department police officer at the time of the crime, was suspended upon being charged and resigned prior to pleading guilty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS &#8211; \u00a0A former New Orleans police officer plead guilty to stealing government 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