Judge grows impatient, sets new trial date in Rachel Dolezal welfare fraud case
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SPOKANE, Wash. - A Spokane County Judge is growing impatient with legal maneuverings by disgraced former NAACP President Rachel Dolezal - also known as Nkechi Diallo - on charges of welfare fraud.
Judge Michelle Szambelan told Diallo’s attorney Bevan Maxey at hearing this morning that they’ve had plenty of time to prepare for her trial. Diallo - who claimed to be a black woman until outed by her parents in 2015 - was arrested for 1st degree Theft by Welfare Fraud, Perjury in the 2nd Degree and False Verification for Public Assistance - back in May 2018.
Investigators allege that a few months after her parents exposed her as being white, Dolezal started falsifying her income to claim public assistance - stating that she was getting by on a few hundred dollars a month, given as gifts from friends.
According to the court documents first reported by KHQ , Diallo was able to collect nearly $9,000 in state financial assistance, starting in August of 2015 through November of 2017. But a state investigation of her banking records found that she had deposited more than $80,000 during that same period.
Since the arrest, the case has languished on the court docket - with numerous rescheduling since Diallo's arraignment back in June . Judge Szambelan told attorneys in the case that further delaying proceedings was getting old. She set a trial date for March 4th, 2019.
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I hope they find his lying witch guilty and throw her thieving arse in prison where she belongs!
why was she not charged with cultural appropriation as well?
Silly.
Only conservatives get that charge levelled at them.
oh. I see...
I guess im off to appropriate a plate of mexican culture and wash it down with some irish culture.
Cheers
LOL!!
Warren's VP pick.
Too bad for her that you only get presidential pardons for being transgender, not transracial.
Funny how the liberal left is staying away from this seed....
Perhaps because she is a PRIME example of how stupid and foolish "identifying" one's self as something you aren't is?
She makes people who support that kind of foolish nonsense look, well, foolish!
I think left and right can all agree that welfare fraud is a crime, and this woman should get a hefty jail trip if found guilty.
Welfare, tax fraud is terrible, and we all feel it should be punished with jail time. All agreed?
I'm no lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. But don't sentences usually come with also having to pay back money? Seizing property, etc? Put her away and make her pay. Glad the left and right can find common ground on this.
Agreed.
Lol. This whole thing with this woman was dumb as shit from the get go.
One of the very few times I find myself in complete agreement with you.