A Cook County, Ill., couple committed fraud by illegally accepting housing assistance to rent a property they jointly owned, according to a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
The couple enacted a scheme in which one of them posed as a landlord to “lease” the home from the other party while seeking rental assistance from the local housing authority.
Read on for details from HUD’s complaint.
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