I suppose the good news is they caught the bas****s.
County: Welfare couple spent $161,000 on cars: While receiving financial assistance amounting to almost $20,000, a Duluth couple hid an inheritance with which they went on a spending spree.
By: Mark Stodghill, Duluth News Tribune
A Duluth couple with five children is accused of buying a new Cadillac Escalade SUV and a new Nissan Titan pickup at the same time as they were drawing St. Louis County welfare benefits.
James Lauer, 49, and Tari Lee Lauer, 42, each are charged with five counts of welfare fraud, including four felonies apiece, for wrongfully obtaining public assistance. They’re accused of wrongfully receiving cash, food support, medical assistance and child-care assistance totaling almost $20,000 during various periods from October 2006 to July 2008 while failing to report about $400,000 in income and assets.
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