A Brooklyn woman who ripped off the city of New York by selling what should have been free hotel rooms in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic will soon have her getaway from home.
Chanette Lewis, 31, admitted to scamming city programs out of more than $400,000, according to NBC New York.
She pleaded guilty to two felony counts of wire fraud for being the mastermind behind a scheme involving selling hotel room stays reserved for the city’s free pandemic isolation program and a long con against the New York City Housing Authority, NBC New York says.
City officials claimed Lewis racked in hundreds of thousands of dollars by selling hotel room stays that were meant for New York’s free hotel room isolation program at the height of the pandemic.
The New Yorker had also been accused of falsifying fake documents “to fraudulently obtain public housing benefits for herself and others” through NYCHA, the city Department of Investigation said.
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