This makes me feel a little better about paying taxes to the government.  Especially since it's tax day.

Remember that woman from Detroit who won $1M in the lottery, yet had two houses and a new car but was on welfare?  Yeah.

After that story broke, the state cut off her benefits.  Now she's being charged with welfare fraud.  The state attorney general filed two felony charges against her.  She was arrested yesterday and will be arraigned today.  She could spend 4 years in prison.

She told Detroit TV station WDIV at the time that she thought it might have been OK to keep using food stamps because she wasn't working

Read more here at http://news.yahoo.com/michigan-lotto-winner-charged-welfare-fraud-132900962.html

You can see the original story at http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/Michigan-lotto-winner-charged-with-welfare-fraud/-/1719418/10953016/-/uotkptz/-/index.html

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