Lafayette man, daughters sentenced to prison time for stealing $500k from federal assistance program

LAFAYETTE — A Lafayette man and his daughters were sentenced to prison time for stealing $500,000 from a federal nutrition assistance program.

The U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday that 64-year-old Brian Paul Desormeaux, 38-year-old Amy Desormeaux Hernandez and 35-year-old Lenzi Desormeaux Babineaux defrauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Child and Adult Care Food Program of half a million dollars.

Desormeaux, the former executive director of the nonprofit Regional Nutrition Assistance, Inc., and his daughters submitted fraudulent reimbursement claims…

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