{"id":1876,"date":"2026-02-11T11:36:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:36:52","slug":"brickbat-well-housed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1876","title":{"rendered":"Brickbat: Well-Housed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/c800x450-w800-q60\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Tracy-Jones-upres-v1-800x450.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" alt=\"Tracy Jones speaks into a microphone, while illustrative money flies around her. | Illustration: WSB-TV\/Kacpura\/Dreamstime\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Atlanta Housing Authority senior vice president Tracy Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/fayette-county\/atlanta-housing-authority-exec-used-federal-funds-pay-herself-rent-theft-fraud-scheme\/6IU5BSCWDJBRDDNIOUMEZJRDPY\/\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to conspiracy to commit theft of government funds, wire fraud, and credit application fraud, for misusing her position to fraudulently collect more than $300,000 in federal funds. Prosecutors say Jones falsified documents to approve her son&#8217;s girlfriend for Section 8 housing vouchers, which were then used to pay rent on a home that Jones herself owned. She also submitted false paperwork to get a Federal Housing Administration mortgage on the same property, and she used a fake name and business to net $36,000 in pandemic relief funds. She faces more than 20 years in federal prison when she is sentenced in May.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/02\/11\/brickbat-well-housed\/\">Brickbat: Well-Housed<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\">Reason.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/02\/11\/brickbat-well-housed\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Atlanta Housing Authority senior vice president Tracy Jones pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit theft of government funds, wire fraud, and credit application fraud, for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}