{"id":87216,"date":"2017-12-06T13:34:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T18:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=87216"},"modified":"2017-12-06T15:59:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T20:59:48","slug":"two-arrested-and-facing-welfare-fraud-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=87216","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested and facing welfare fraud charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_83967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83967\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83967\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/john-ball.jpg?resize=189%2C275\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/john-ball.jpg?w=189&amp;ssl=1 189w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/john-ball.jpg?resize=103%2C150&amp;ssl=1 103w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Ball, Acting Sheriff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following a three-month welfare fraud investigation, Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigators arrested Kristofer D. Cali, 31, and Eileen Campbell, 27, both of Canastota.\u00a0Cali was charged with third-degree grand larceny (class D felony), third-degree welfare fraud (class D felony) and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing (class E felony).<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that Cali submitted a false written instrument to the Madison County Department of Social Services. As a result of his fraudulent act, he was overpaid $7,709.38 in public assistance benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell was charged with fourth-degree grand larceny (class E felony), fourth-degree welfare fraud (class E felony) and two counts of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing (class E felony).<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that Campbell submitted two false instruments to the Madison County Department of Social Services. As a result of her fraudulent act, she was overpaid $2,185.96 in public assistance benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Cali and Campbell share the same residence.<\/p>\n<p>Both were issued appearance tickets directing them to appear in Lenox Town Court on\u00a0Dec. 23, 2017,\u00a0to answer the charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a three-month welfare fraud investigation, Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigators arrested Kristofer D. Cali, 31, and Eileen Campbell, 27, both of Canastota.\u00a0Cali was charged with third-degree grand larceny (class D felony), third-degree welfare fraud (class D felony) and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing (class E felony). It is alleged that Cali submitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-mGI","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/john-ball.jpg?fit=189%2C275&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}