RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A Richmond woman pled guilty to wire fraud on Tuesday after the city gave her nearly $1 million to operate a homeless shelter geared toward women and children.
According to court documents, 41-year-old Kia Player won a grant to operate the inclement weather shelter RVA Sister’s Keeper in 2022, and ended up obtaining $995,000 in governmental funding from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as well as the city.
Player, while acting as director of the shelter, fabricated and falsified a minimum of 35 separate invoices from August 2022 through April 2023 for costs allegedly paid to assist the shelter and its residents, per court documents…