ALBANY – Evicting a woman from her public housing apartment in New York City was not an excessive punishment for concealing income from the Housing Authority and thus paying lower rent than she should have for six years, the state Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.
The court ruled 5-0 that a "vital public interest" is involved with the income rules Jacqueline Perez admitted she violated when pleading guilty to petit larceny in 2008. She agreed to pay restitution of $20,000 of the $27,144 that the Housing Authority said she owed under the income-based rent schedules she circumvented by not reporting money she began earning as a bookkeeper in 1999.
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