A Mobile, Alabama woman found guilty of embezzling rent money from low-income individuals is scheduled to serve time in federal prison after her sentencing on Friday, as reported by the United States Department of Justice.
Officials from the USDOJ identified her as 48-year-old Shannon Caruso, per WKRG. According to a news release from the USDOJ, court documents reveal that Caruso misappropriated rent funds while serving as a property manager for two different government housing authorities that offer affordable housing to low-income residents in the Mobile area.
“Caruso admitted that while working for both housing authorities, she fraudulently convinced renters that they needed to make rent checks out to her or to give her their rent checks with the payee line blank,”
the release said.
“Rather than depositing this rent money with her employer, Caruso stole the money for her own use.”
U.S. District Court Judge Terry F. Moorer sentenced Caruso to 14 months in federal incarceration.
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