A member of the Tallahassee Housing Authority (THA), a public agency that helps low- and moderate-income residents afford housing, has been indicted for allegedly depositing almost $400,000 of funds meant to help pay for Floridians’ rent into her personal bank account.
Lekishaann Huggins, 45, has been charged with 39 counts of bank fraud, four counts of spending money laundering, two counts of filing a false tax return and one count of aggravated identity theft.
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Huggins was in charge of the THA’s housing choice voucher program, which was designed to help low-income residents afford private housing by paying rent subsidies directly to landlords.
As WCTV reports, Huggins would allegedly replace landlords’ bank information with her own. She also allegedly used former THA tenants’ information to file false claims for housing vouchers before directing those funds to her bank accounts.
Huggins faces decades of prison time
Huggins is facing up to 30 years of prison for each of her 39 counts of bank fraud — up to 1,170 years in prison for those charges alone, although the average sentence for one offence is just 22 months…