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Wednesday, October 11,2006

SCAMMING FEMA

A former New Orleans woman who relocated to Queens after Katrina, has been accused of stealing thousands of dollars in hurricane relief money. Queens D-A Richard Brown says Cherrelle Porche legitimately received FEMA bucks for her destroyed home. But, like most healthy Americans, Porche allegedly wanted more than what the government considered to be her “fair” share. So, in 2005, she allegedly applied for more money using her ex-husband’s name and her mother-in-law’s New Orleans address. Talk about payback for all those awkward conversations with the mother of the man whom you sleep next to. Porche then reportedly received over $4,000 in bonus aid money, which FEMA transferred to a joint account shared by Porche and her ex. But it didn’t stay there for long; officials say Porche quickly transferred the funds to her own account and is now living large on the payout—at least she was, before she was brought up on charges of larceny, falsifying business records and first-degree identity theft. Somehow, we don’t see her case parodied on Citibank’s identity theft commercials—natural disaster victims just aren’t as amusing as Valley girls on a shopping-spree. Porche is set to return to court on Oct.11 and faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.




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