Liberty, NY – The Sullivan County Welfare Fraud Task Force has made the following arrests:
- March 19, 2023 – Lisa Keitt, 26, of Liberty, was arrested and charged with Theft of Services, a Class A misdemeanor, and Offering a False Instrument in the 1st Degree, a Class E felony. It is alleged that Keitt stole services totaling $505.74 in Medicaid transportation benefits. On December 5, 2022 and on eight other dates, Keitt obtained a medical transportation ride by deception to two separate medical facilities to which she was not a client of, or the establishment was not in operation. For three of the medical transportation trips, Keitt signed trip tickets, creating false instruments that were filed with the Sullivan County Department of Social Services. These were Medical Assistance Benefits for alleged medical appointments that never occurred and to which Keitt was not otherwise entitled. Keitt was processed and arraigned in the Town of Liberty Court, then released on her own recognizance to return to the Town of Liberty Court at a later date.
- March 22, 2023 – Toni L. McNamara, 51, of Liberty, was arrested and charged with Grand Larceny in the 3rd Degree, a Class D felony, and Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the 1st Degree, a Class E felony. It is alleged that from August 9, 2018 through March 2023, McNamara stole $42,077 in Social Security survivor benefits for her granddaughter. It is alleged that McNamara claimed that William A. Vanloan, who passed away March 17, 2018, was the deceased biological father to her granddaughter when she knew that her son, Mario Molino Jr., was the actual biological father. McNamara was aware of this well before she had applied for the benefit and helped Molino pay for a genetic marker test in September 2010, which proved Molino was in fact the biological father. This was contrary to her filing documents with the Department of Social Security for survivor benefits in 2018 that she was not otherwise entitled to and fraudulently obtained. McNamara was processed and arraigned in the Town of Liberty Court, then released on her own recognizance pending a future court date in the Town of Liberty Court. It should be noted that the Sullivan County Welfare Fraud Task Force was assisted by the New York State Department of Financial Services’ Fraud Bureau and the United States Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General.
- March 31, 2023 – Danielle J. Lacek, 40, of Liberty, was arrested and charged with Grand Larceny in the 4th Degree, a Class E felony. It is alleged that Lacek stole $1,196 in SNAP benefits from the Sullivan County Department of Social Services by failing to disclose that she was in receipt of Unemployment Insurance Benefits between March 30, 2020 and December 31, 2020, during which she was also collecting SNAP benefits. Lacek was processed and released on an appearance ticket pending a future court date in the Town of Liberty Court. The Sullivan County Welfare Fraud Task Force was assisted in this investigation by the New York State Department of Financial Services’ Fraud Bureau.
