Seattle, WA - Prosecutors say a Seattle chiropractor and his wife drove a luxury car and lived in a $1.2 million waterfront home while claiming welfare assistance.
The U.S. attorney’s office filed a civil lawsuit last Friday accusing David Silverstein and Lyudmila Shimonova of filing false claims. Prosecutors are demanding they pay back more than $135,000 in federal housing assistance since 2003 and are seeking tens of thousands of dollars in fines.
The government says that in gaining Section 8 housing assistance, Shimonova represented that she lived alone with her two children and that her household assets were less than $5,000. Silverstein received the monthly benefits of $1,272 as Shimonova’s purported landlord.
Silverstein, who drives a black Jaguar, says his lawyer asked him not to comment.
Court records show the couple gave money to charities and traveled around the world to exotic places like Turkey, Tel Aviv and resort towns in Mexico.
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