BUSTED!

I wonder what would happen if the feds investigated every CPS agency in the country. It would be interesting. I wonder how many crimes that they would find. I also wonder how many times the feds turn the other way. I also wonder how many times the states have turned the other way. Adoption and helping children is after all a winning situation. Well its a huge money making scheme with children as the killing fields.

Here is the story and the link.

Feds: Children Services Officials Robbed Needy

Posted on Saturday, 18 of October , 2008 at 7:14 pm

NEW YORK—Administration for children’s services officials and foster care agency workers have been indicted by a federal grand jury for embezzling money intended to assist needy children.

Nigel Osarenkhoe, former supervisor of adoptions within the New York City Administration For Children’s Services Payment Services Department; Stay Thompson, aka Stay Daniels, the fiscal director at Concord Family Services, Inc. and Philbert Gorrick, a former independent contractor with Concord, are accused of conspiring to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in ACS funds destined for needy children.

Osarenkhoe, Thompson and Gorrick were arrested on a complaint in July and were released on bail. Lethem Duncan, another defendant charged in this case, pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy to commit embezzlement, embezzlement, money laundering and accepting illegal gratuities.

He faces a maximum sentence of 75 years in prison on these charges. He also faces a maximum fine on each charge of theg reater of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense.

ACS is a New York City agency responsible for, among other things, providing services to needy children and their families. Among other duties, ACS administers payments from New York City to parents who adopt needy children and to not-forprofits that find and provide child care subsidies to foster parents. ACS administers approximately $32 million in adoption subsidy payments each month and approximately $42 million in monthly payments to not-for-profit foster care agencies.

From 1998 through the time of the alleged conduct, Duncan served as the deputy director of the Payment Services Department of ACS. In that capacity, Duncan had the power to authorize ACS payments for services to, among others, not-for profit foster care agencies and their independent contractors.

During the same time period, Osarenkhoe served as the supervisor of adoptions within ACS’s Payment Services Department. In that capacity, Osarenkhoe was responsible for financial reporting of adoption subsidy payments. Osarenkhoe also served as a member of ACS’s Quality Assurance Unit. As a result of these positions, Osarenkhoe had access to and knowledge of the ACS computer systems involved in the processing of adoption subsidy payments.

Concord is a not-for-profit foster care agency that has been paid by ACS since 1990 to provide foster care services to needy children in New York City. Between 2005 and 2008, Concord had three contracts with ACS to provide foster care services, resulting in more than $28 million in payments from ACS to Concord.

From 2004 through the time the initial charges were filed, Thompson was the fiscal director at Concord. During the same time period, Gorrick controlled Contemporary Technologies Co., a company that provides computer services to Concord as an independent contractor.

Since 2002, prosecutors said Osarenkhoe used his position at ACS to authorize adoption subsidy payments to be made to co-conspirators posing as adoptive parents who in fact did not adopt any children.

An adoption subsidy is a monthly payment mandated by New York State law to be made for the care, maintenance, and medical needs of an adopted child. Increased subsidies are available for an adoptee who fits the definition of handicapped or hard-to-place.

The indictment charges that from Sept. 23, 2002, through April 4, 2006, Osarenkhoe fraudulently caused approximately $265,930 in checks payable to his wife to be mailed to his prior residence.

In 2005, Osarenkhoe allegedly told Duncan that all he needed was a name in order to make unauthorized payments. Duncan allegedly provided Thompson’s name and from Dec. 20, 2005 through Aug. 1, 2007, Osarenkhoe allegedly fraudulently caused approximately $145,845 in adoption subsidy payments to be mailed to Thompson who shared them with Osarenkhoe and Duncan.

In June 2008, using his position at ACS, Osarenkhoe sent another unauthorized adoption subsidy payment to Thompson. Osarenkhoe was arrested July 16 after he received a cashkickback in ACS’s offices in New York City of a portion of this adoption subsidy payment. The payment was made by Duncan, who was acting at DOI’s direction, prosecutors say.

In 2005, Gorrick and Thompson agreed that Gorrick would submit a fictitious request for payment to ACS for $375,000 in computer services. Duncan arranged for ACS to make the payment, and Gorrick, Thompson and Duncan shared the stolen money. Gorrick allegedly used proceeds to pay for, among other things: a 2006 BMW750 LI sedan; a 2006 Range Rover; and at least $30,000 in rental payments for a New York City apartment in a doorman building with a private garage, prosecutors say.

In April 2008, Gorrick, again working with Thompson, allegedly submitted a fictitious invoice to ACS for $711,420.25 in computer supplies which were never provided to ACS. Gorrick and Thompson were arrested the night of July 15 after they received an ACS check for the $711,420.25 from Duncan who was acting at DOI’s direction.

The indictment charges Osarenkhoe, 49, with participating in a conspiracy to commit mail fraud. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years inprison, as well as a maximum fine of the greater of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense.

Thompson, 43, is charged with participating in a conspiracy to commit mail fraud, participating in a conspiracy to commit embezzlement, and money laundering. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on the conspiracy to commit mail fraud charge, five years in prison on the conspiracy to commit embezzlement charge, and 10 years inprison on the money laundering charge. She also faces a maximum fine on each charge of the greater of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense.

Gorrick, 53, is charged with conspiracy to commit embezzlement. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum fine of the greater of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense. 10-18-08