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Community service for over $100k fraud |
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Written by NZPA
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 |
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A Whangamata man who partially owns nearly $1 million worth of
property has been sentenced to 280 hours' community work for
fraudulently obtaining nearly $110,000 worth of benefit payments.
Graham Herbert Taylor, 56, appeared for sentence in Thames District
Court today after earlier pleading guilty to two charges of using a
document to obtain a pecuniary advantage.
Taylor claimed the invalid benefit, accommodation supplement and
disability allowance to help him look after his mother, a stroke and
heart attack victim, and received $109,059.93 in benefits from 2000.
On signing the applications, Taylor agreed to advise the ministry of any
changes to his circumstances, but failed to report income for vehicle
trading, rent, bank interest and work.
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2009-08-20 
