Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee child support worker, tow driver fraud scheme foiled
Milwaukee youngster assist employee, tow driver fraud scheme foiled
Milwaukee County prosecutors say the Baby Assist Providers worker would create faux Satisfaction of Lien Types. A tow truck proprietor would pay her, take the car and switch it into money – cash that ought to’ve been within the fingers of households receiving youngster assist.
MILWAUKEE – Investigators say a Milwaukee County worker and a tow truck driver stole tens of 1000’s of {dollars} over two years in a scheme together with forgeries, cash laundering and extra, and it is all tied to car liens.
Based on prosecutors, the two-part scheme allowed Michael Morgan, 37, and Daneen Pope, 47, to learn illegally. Pope, a Baby Assist Providers worker, would create faux Satisfaction of Lien Types. Morgan would pay her after which take the car and switch it into money – cash that ought to’ve been within the fingers of households receiving youngster assist.
At a scrapyard on Milwaukee’s north facet, metallic shortly was money for Morgan, a tow truck proprietor, however investigators say each penny he made did not belong to him.
A 16-page legal criticism filed Wednesday, Might 25 particulars how prosecutors imagine Morgan, with Pope’s assist, embezzled cash from tons of of Milwaukee households owed youngster assist.
Michael Morgan, Daneen Pope
From September 2019 to September 2021, investigators say the pair beneath a bridge close to the Milwaukee County Courthouse on ninth Road for an change. Morgan would textual content Pope the VIN quantity, make and mannequin and lien holder’s title for a sure car. He’d pay Pope, a Milwaukee County Baby Assist Providers worker answerable for processing lien launch funds, between $25 and $50 to forge a lien launch kind for the car.
In return, Morgan would get the car lien-free to promote, junk or salvage.
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The criticism says police imagine Pope made a minimum of $15,0000 and estimates Morgan made between $37,000 and $43,000.
Milwaukee County Baby Assist Providers
Pope advised investigators she knew what she did was mistaken however did so to “complement her paychecks,” which she claimed weren’t sufficient for her.
She faces one cost of misconduct in public workplace, whereas Morgan, who’s in jail, faces six fees together with racketeering, embezzlement and bribing a public official.