City worker who lied to get Section 8 housing gets 6 months

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Bethel Wooten lived rent-free for eight years in a four-bedroom Academy Square apartment on West Jackson Boulevard, prosecutors said, thanks to a Section 8 low income housing voucher from the department of Housing and Urban Development.

But Wooten wasn’t unemployed as she claimed on the forms that netted her $124,000 in benefits between 2000 and 2008, prosecutors said Thursday.

She had a job in Chicago’s Streets and Sanitation Department that paid her more than $50,000 a year, according to the Illinois attorney general’s office.

Great moments in Chicago government.