Food stamps, federal and state disability cash payments, and $1,200 a month in public housing vouchers is quite the welfare package, and thanks to the U.S. government’s crack squad group of fraud detectors, two people living in a $1.2 million home in Washington state were receiving such lavish financial handouts – on the taxpayers’ dime of course.
Filing a civil lawsuit Friday, federal prosecutors in Seattle claim Lyudmila Shimonova and her partner, chiropractor David Silverstein, sucked money out of state and federal assistance programs while living well in a Lake Washington mansion.
Yet the big-lib Democrats continue to stonewall efforts to reform – or God forbid, eradicate - the seemingly immortal welfare state of citizen fraud and political extortion.