On Aug 7, 1:30 pm, Eidem <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wife of Monkee Micky Dolenz arrested in NYC
> By DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Writer
>
> NEW YORK – The wife of Monkees vocalist Micky Dolenz was arrested
> Friday on charges that she defrauded an affordable housing program in
> New York City.
>
> Authorities in the city's Department of Investigation said Donna
> Quinter, 54, illegally received $136,866 in government rental
> subsidies for an apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
>
> The subsidies were supposed to go to middle-income families living in
> the city year-round who were in danger of being forced out by
> gentrification.
>
> Investigators say Quinter failed to disclose that she was sharing the
> apartment with a friend who paid rent. The home also wasn't her only
> residence. Since marrying Dolenz in 2002, the former flight attendant
> has lived with her husband in Bell Canyon, Calif., an exclusive gated
> community outside Los Angeles.
>
> Quinter surrendered to authorities in New York on Friday morning. She
> was expected to be arraigned later on larceny charges in a Manhattan
> court.
>
> Her lawyer, Bridget Rohde, didn't immediately return a phone message.
>
> New York City has a number of programs designed to allow middle class
> families to pay reduced rents in homes they have occupied for a long
> period of time.
>
> Fraud, however, is common. In some cases, people hold on to their
> apartments even after they have moved out of the city, either using
> them as vacation homes or secretly renting them out.
>
> The Department of Investigation, a city law enforcement agency that
> probes fraud and other abuses in government programs and agencies,
> discovered Quinter's eligibility problems after it began examining who
> was getting subsidies in her building in 2008.
>
> "Law abiding New Yorkers struggling to pay their rents and mortgages
> cannot afford to subsidize cheaters who abuse public housing resources
> to support privileged lifestyles," the department's commissioner, Rose
> Gill Hearn, said in a written statement.
>
> Dolenz isn't accused of any wrongdoing.
> ______________________________________________________________
>
> Micky has been a bit of a shyster on eBay. He's been selling
> autographed "authentic" written lyrics sheets of some of the Monkees'
> songs, except they aren't the real thing, and they don't even look
> like it. He recently sold the "actual hand-written" lyrics to
> Pleasant Valley Sunday, and it looked lik something done up on a
> computer. If he wants to sell his autograph, then just do that, but
> don't treat people like they're stupid and pawn off something that's a
> fake.
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