Gov’t Employee Steals From Feds, Uses Taxpayer-Funded Lawyers To Fight Eviction After Getting Caught

The Daily Caller reports:

A Department of Housing and Urban Development employee with two federally funded Section 8 apartments refused to vacate when she was caught and used a tax-paid civil rights organization to fight the government’s order to get out.

Markquonda Mathis rented one of the two subsidized units she obtained to her sister, Markquasha, who used it as a second home and to park her Lexus. Mathis faced no criminal or civil penalties even though she lied to federal investigators about the units, one of which was in the District of Columbia and the other in Alexandria, Virginia.

A 2014 HUD Inspector General report made public by The Daily Caller News Foundation earlier this month said housing authorities were moving to evict Mathis. That’s when Mathis turned to attorneys from the Neighborhood Legal Services Program, which is supported by the federally funded Legal Services Corporation.

In other words, Mathis was using one government agency to fight another government agency to preserve her right to defraud a third, all while drawing a paycheck from HUD.

Do people who work for HUD have the lowest form of morals ? It appears so. Is the Department of Justice running a patronage operation by protecting the Obama coalition from prosecution? You say what could be worse than having Markquonda Mathis employed at HUD? The Daily Caller explains:

Luckily for her, rather than fire her for the fraud and for lying to the inspector general about it, HUD promoted her immediately after being caught.She now oversees millions of dollars in HUD grants as a grants officer dealing with lead abatement.

Imagine that!