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People have complained about welfare recipients for as long as I can remember. “Why can’t they just get a job?” “I’m not paying taxes, so they can live the good life and sit on their asses all day!” Sound familiar? Well, I’ve got a story for ya’. How do you feel about your tax dollars enabling recipients to live on a lake and jet around the world, truly living the good life? Well, allow me to introduce David Silverstein and Lyudmila Shimonova of Seattle, Washington.
According to MYNDYTV:
A Seattle chiropractor and his wife live in a $1.2 million waterfront home and have spent the past eight years flying to Moscow, Paris, Israel, Turkey, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.
All the while, federal authorities say, the couple was collecting more than $100,000 in welfare.
Now, the U.S. attorney’s office is suing David Silverstein and Lyudmila Shimonova, accusing them of filing false claims and demanding that the couple pay back more than $135,000 in federal housing assistance since 2003. Prosecutors are also seeking tens of thousands of dollars in fines.
In gaining Section 8 housing assistance, Shimonova represented that she lived alone with her two children and that her household assets were less than $5,000. Silverstein received the monthly benefits of $1,272 as Shimonova’s purported landlord, the government said.
Shimonova also received benefits under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, as well as Social Security cash reserved for people who can’t work due to age or disability and whose assets fall below a certain threshold — $3,000 for a married couple or $2,000 for a single person, the complaint said.
Damn! That’s a nice f*ckin house, though! What a feel good story! Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars swindled out from under our noses for waterfront property and exotic trips, only to get caught and humiliated publicly! Sometimes, life’s fair!