News Report | May 8, 2000
Alleged Foster-Child Fraud May Total $1 Million
May 8, 2000
Alleged Foster-Child Fraud May Total $1 Million
A foster care worker was charged with embezzlement in San Mateo County, California on April 25, 2000. Investigators said she invented phantom foster children and cut checks totaling more than $400,000 to relatives and friends, according to the San Jose Mercury News. The newspaper reports that Deputy District Attorney Peter Lynch filed the charges against Jacquelyn Yvonne Adams. Lynch also alleges that Ms. Adams may have siphoned off an additional $600,000 and made up at least six other bogus children since 1996 . . .