A 48-year-old Kansas City woman was arrested and charged with defrauding the United States government by allegedly fraudulently obtaining pandemic benefits, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Kansas City.
A federal grand jury indicted Tiffanie Foster this week with two counts of wire fraud for allegedly fraudulently receiving pandemic funds while she was employed full-time as a customer service representative with the Social Security Administration.
The alleged fraud was uncovered by the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee which had identified a list of Social Security Administration employees whose personal information has been used to apply for loans or unemployment benefits, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release…