OCEANSIDE : Welfare Cheater Enters Guilty Pleas
A 39-year-old woman who supplemented her full-time job by fraudulently collecting nearly $29,000 in welfare payments has pleaded guilty to three felony charges.
April Alyce Allen Ream of Oceanside entered the pleas Wednesday as part of a deal with prosecutors, who will seek no more than a 1-year jail term at her scheduled Nov. 18 sentencing before Superior Court Judge John Thompson.
Ream also has agreed to reimburse the county for the $28,872 in welfare assistance that she illegally collected since 1985 and used to finance a lavish wardrobe and plush lifestyle.
The money is due by the time she is sentenced on one count of welfare fraud and two counts of perjury. Prosecutors dismissed nine other charges in exchange. Ream would have faced up to six years in prison if she had been convicted on 12 charges.
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