Yacht couple accused in welfare fraud arrested in Florida

[icymist]

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Minnesota couple, who went on the run after being accused of claiming welfare benefits while living on a million-dollar yacht, has been arrested in Florida, authorities said on Tuesday.

Colin Chisholm III and his wife, Andrea, allegedly received more than $165,000 in food stamps and other public assistance over a seven-year period, a Minnesota prosecutor said.

Police in the Bahamas spotted the couple on Monday and told them their visas had expired. Authorities then escorted the Chisholms, their son and dog onto a ship bound for Fort Lauderdale.

The couple was arrested on arrival in Port Everglades, Florida, according to a statement from the office of Mike Freeman, a prosecutor in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/yacht-couple-accused-in-welfare-fraud-arrested-in-florida?gt1=51501

[Archae]

1. Just how arrogant and with a sense of "entitlement" can a person get?

[bluestate10]

5. Even worse. Both people were well paid. Collectively, they were

millionaires, and greedy bastards.

[1000words]

14. Poverty of the soul is the worst kind

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Aren't they like British royalty or something? They have some royal title, I think nt

[lonestarnot]

3. Royal shit piles. They made that shit up.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. So they were just wealthy people taking welfare? Nice. At least if they'd been

royalty it might've made for a more interesting story.

[lonestarnot]

8. Just grifters making up shit.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

9. I wonder who's worse, them or my state's Governor, who bilked Medicare out of over $600,000,000

I think my state's Republican governor probably wins.

http://www.salon.com/2010/08/25/scott_10/

[lonestarnot]

10. He's elected. He's worse. I hold him to a higher standard.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

11. I agree. I'm feeling sorry for myself these days having him as my state's gov. :(

He's such an a-hole.

[Nye Bevan]

6. I believe "Welfare King" and "Welfare Queen" (nt)

[Sarah Ibarruri]

7. Finally! We've found the welfare royalty Raygun was talking about! After 33 years! nt

[Beaverhausen]

12. Why bother taking $165k when you are millionaires?

Very strange. Why bother?

[icymist]

13. Greed.

Makes me wonder if any of the money they made was through legal means.