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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From the Post: "Blaeuer said many of the families earlier lived in Maryland and fell behind on their mortgages after the Great Recession. They moved in with parents who have homes in the District, although they never signed formal leases. [b]Some rented their Maryland homes to friends and family, formally or informally[/b]."

And if you believe this, I've got a bridge in PG County to sell you.  This is a clear, after-the-fact attempt to obfuscate fraud.[/quote]

Apparently OSSE - DC AG's office - disagree with your conclusion. [/quote]

At some point, the AG's office makes a decision that they can stop digging. That point is subject to political influence.

Did they take the families' word for it, or did they go question the people who allegedly were informal tenants in the Maryland homes, checking where they filed tax returns, voted, registered cars, enrolled their own kids in school, etc.? Did they check whether the Ellington families took the homestead exemption on the Maryland homes? Did they look at where the Ellington families got health insurance (if Medicaid or through a state exchange, it could be informative) or public benefits? Did they contact the tax office in MD to see if any of the families claimed rental income, or look at their bank statements to see if rental income was coming in?

I would not put it past OSSE to have caught some DC residents in this dragnet. The goal was to find all the families whose documentation was questionable, and after questioning some of the answers could turn up as DC.

But I would also not put it past the AG to do the tiniest bit of digging and accept what the families provided rather than looking into this aggressively, leading to some people continuing to get away with residency fraud. The DC government does not really want to know the truth here. [/quote]

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