Meadville’s current mayor, Jaime Kinder, is facing allegations that she committed benefit fraud in 2019, more than two years before taking office.
Meadville’s first Black person and first female mayor, Kinder, 44, took office in January as the city’s first Black person and first female mayor.
Kinder was arrested on Monday and charged with welfare fraud, a first-degree misdemeanour that carries a potential sentence of five years in prison and a fine of $10,000 if the defendant is found guilty.
This photo of Meadville Mayor Jaime Kinder was sent by a member of the community, but the date has not been noted.
According to the criminal complaint, Kinder is accused of defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to collect benefits totalling $966 between the dates of August 1, 2019, and October 31, 2019.
According to the lawsuit, she was eligible to get those benefits after completing a Compass application on June 18, 2019, which documented that she was obliged to report any changes in her household’s job or income. She did so after receiving those benefits.
According to the allegations contained in the complaint, over the aforementioned period, Kinder either underreported or failed to report to the Crawford County Assistance Office the job income received from the city of Meadville.
According to the criminal complaint, on December 11, 2019, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services was informed that Maxwell Brown, a member of Kinder’s household, had been employed by the city between July 1, 2019, and October 6, 2019, and was receiving wages from the city during that period.
The matter was referred to the state’s Office of the State Inspector General, which investigated it and found confirmation that Brown had been paid by the city of Meadville during the relevant period.
Jaime Kinder, the current Mayor of Meadville, is being accused of committing benefit fraud in 2019, more than two years before she took office as Mayor.
Meadville’s first Black person and first female mayor, Kinder, 44, assumed office in January as the city’s first Black person and first female mayor. Kinder is the city’s first person of African descent to hold this position.
Kinder was taken into custody on Monday and charged with welfare fraud, which is a first-degree misdemeanour that, if proven guilty, has a potential penalty of five years in jail and a fine of $10,000.
A member of the community contributed the photo that you see here of Mayor Jaime Kinder of Meadville; however, the date has not been indicated.
Kinder is accused of cheating the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to collect benefits of $966 between the dates of August 1, 2019, and October 31, 2019, according to the criminal complaint. These dates fall within the timeframe of the investigation.
After completing a Compass application on June 18, 2019, which stated that she was obliged to report any changes in her household’s work or income, the complaint claims that she became eligible to receive those benefits.
According to the lawsuit, she was qualified to collect such benefits. This is something that she performed after she had obtained those advantages.
The allegations made in the complaint state that during the aforementioned period, Kinder either failed to report to the Crawford County Assistance Office the job income received from the city of Meadville or underreported the amount of income that they had received from their employment with the city.
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According to the criminal complaint, on December 11, 2019, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services was informed that Maxwell Brown, a member of Kinder’s household, had been employed by the city between July 1, 2019, and October 6, 2019, and was receiving wages from the city during that period.
This information was provided to the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services on December 11, 2019. After the situation was brought to the attention of the state’s Office of the State Inspector General, that office conducted an investigation into it and discovered confirmation that Brown had been paid by the city of Meadville during the relevant period.
