{"id":93953,"date":"2018-05-30T09:07:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=93953"},"modified":"2018-05-30T09:07:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:07:04","slug":"chittenango-woman-charged-with-welfare-fraud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=93953","title":{"rendered":"Chittenango woman charged with welfare fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-93954\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hamilton-Mista-120x150.jpg?resize=120%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hamilton-Mista.jpg?resize=120%2C150&amp;ssl=1 120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hamilton-Mista.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hamilton-Mista.jpg?resize=400%2C500&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hamilton-Mista.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/>Chittenango woman charged with welfare fraud<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On May 25, 2018, Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigators arrested Mista Hamilton, 51, of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=7354+Wheeler+Road,+Chittenango,+New+York&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g\">7354 Wheeler Road, Chittenango,<\/a>\u00a0and charged her with fourth-degree grand larceny, two counts of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing and fourth-degree welfare fraud (all class E felonies).<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that while Hamilton was receiving public assistance, she failed to report to the Madison County Department of Social Services that she was employed and receiving an income. As a result of this fraudulent act, Hamilton received $2,004 in public assistance that she would not have received if she reported her income.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton was issued appearance tickets directing her to respond to Lenox Town Court <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_740283976\"><span class=\"aQJ\">June 26, 2018,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0to answer the charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chittenango woman charged with welfare fraud On May 25, 2018, Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigators arrested Mista Hamilton, 51, of\u00a07354 Wheeler Road, Chittenango,\u00a0and charged her with fourth-degree grand larceny, two counts of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing and fourth-degree welfare fraud (all class E felonies). It is alleged that while Hamilton was receiving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93954,"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_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-93953","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-orn","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hamilton-Mista.jpg?fit=480%2C600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93953","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=93953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}