{"id":1820,"date":"2017-07-22T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T19:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2017-07-22T15:35:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T19:35:04","slug":"wyoming-countytwo-women-facing-welfare-fraud-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2017\/07\/22\/wyoming-countytwo-women-facing-welfare-fraud-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"WYOMING COUNTY\/Two women facing welfare fraud charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Castile woman was arrested after she filed false documents with the Department of Social Services.<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Figoura, 38, is charged with welfare fraud 5<sup>th<\/sup> and offering a false instrument to file 1<sup>st<\/sup>, a felony, after an investigation by the Wyoming County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Department of Social Services.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that Figoura gave false information on an application to obtain county taxpayer benefits she was not entitled to.<\/p>\n<p>Figoura is due in the Town of Warsaw Court on August 28, 2017 to answer the charges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Perry woman is facing welfare charges after she allegedly filed false documents with the Department of Social Services.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanie Flint, 46, is charged with welfare fraud 4<sup>th <\/sup>and offering a false instrument to file 1<sup>st<\/sup> , both felonies, after an investigation by the Wyoming County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Department of Social Services.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that Flint failed to report that she had been married. \u00a0Flint has been married since 2013.\u00a0 By failing to report her marriage, she collected $20,997.84 in county taxpayer benefits that she was not entitled to.<\/p>\n<p>Flint will answer the charges in the Town of Warsaw Court on August 28, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Castile woman was arrested after she filed false documents with the Department of Social Services. Cheryl Figoura, 38, is charged with welfare fraud 5th and offering a false instrument to file 1st, a felony, after an investigation by the Wyoming County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Department of Social Services. \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2017\/07\/22\/wyoming-countytwo-women-facing-welfare-fraud-charges\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wyoming-county","tag-welfare-fraud"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eTP4-tm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28215,"url":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2021\/09\/28\/wyoming-county-sheriffs-report-arcade-woman-facing-charges-after-investigation-into-welfare-fraud\/","url_meta":{"origin":1820,"position":0},"title":"WYOMING COUNTY SHERIFF&#8217;S REPORT\/Arcade woman facing charges after investigation into welfare fraud","author":"aka","date":"September 28, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"An Arcade woman is facing charges after she allegedly filed false documents with the Department of Social Services on September 21, 2021. 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