Video report: Woman convicted in "rare" welfare trial

Why rare? Because the ruing class for the most part doesn't care. Prosecuting welfare fraud goes against their government dependency agenda:

Here in MI, the GOP is starting to crack down on the leeches, and the establishment MSM is of course up in arms about it. For example, college students can no longer get on the dole for food stamps, wit this reaction by the media: Bridge card victory! Michigan continues its policy of letting college students suffer. Yeah - no food stamps for college kids is 'suffering.' Uh um.  But where one hole gets plugged, elsewhere a new leak occurs: New program offers affordable Internet service for low-income families. Yup -internet welfare. Ugh.

UPDATE: Via Carpe Diem: A New Civil Right: The Right to Raise Hell in Section 8 Rental Housing in Formerly Nice Neighborhoods: Another Failed Government Housing Policy 

"Section 8 rental subsidies have long been one of the most controversial federal social programs. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Obama administration is making a troubled program worse.

In the 1990s, the feds were embarrassed by skyrocketing crime rates in public housing—up to 10 times the national average, according to HUD studies and many newspaper reports. The government's response was to hand out vouchers to residents of the projects, dispersing them to safer and more upscale locales.

Section 8's budget soared to $19 billion this year from $7 billion in 1994. HUD now picks up the rent for more than two million households nationwide; tenants pay 30% of their income toward rent and utilities while the feds pay the rest.

But the dispersal of public housing residents to quieter neighborhoods has failed to weed out the criminal element that made life miserable for most residents of the projects. "Homicide was simply moved to a new location, not eliminated," concluded University of Louisville criminologist Geetha Suresh in a 2009 article in Homicide Studies. In Louisville, Memphis, and other cities, violent crime skyrocketed in neighborhoods where Section 8 recipients resettled.

Recall that Obama famously stated that he wanted to "spread the wealth around" to Joe the plumber. But socialism does no such thing. Instead, it spreads the misery around, as the above story demonstrates.