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WOMAN SENTENCED FOR DEFRAUDING LOUISIANA ROAD HOME PROGRAM
June 24, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JACQUELINE FOREMAN-POTTINGER, age 44, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, was sentenced today in federal court by U. S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval to six (6) months home confinement, three (3) years probation, and full restitution of $148,078.80 for defrauding the Louisiana Road Home Program by submitting a fraudulent application for a Road Home Grant in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in the fall of 2005 announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten.
According to court documents, POTTINGER applied for and received a Road Home Grant of $148, 078.80 for a rental property she owned on Florida Boulevard in New Orleans. POTTINGER fraudulently represented that she was a full-time resident of the Florida Boulevard. property, when she in fact had been renting the property to tenants at the time of the storm.
The case was investigated by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U. S. Attorney Dan Friel.
