Former U.S. Housing Agency Worker Indicted
A former employee of the Pomona Housing Authority was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly accepting bribes for processing rental housing assistance vouchers to people who did not qualify for them, prosecutors announced Thursday.
The indictment said that while Anna Rodriguez, 36, worked for the city’s housing agency--from 1991 through March of this year--she processed four applications for Section 8 housing certificates without the applicants first having to go on a waiting list and without listing their true home addresses.
The fraudulently obtained vouchers--intended by the federal government to be used by low-income persons to pay for private rental housing--were then illegally sold to the applicants, said Assistant U.S. Atty. Edward B. Moreton Jr.
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