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Gorham Woman Pleads Guilty to Embezzling More Than $91,000

A Gorham woman is facing up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says between Feb. 2014 and Sept. 2016, Jamie Hussey embezzled more than $91,000 from the South Portland Housing Authority, where she worked as a resident services coordinator.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Perry says Hussey stole from a Housing and Urban Development program, the Family Self-Sufficiency Program, that allowed people to earn money for achieving certain goals.

“For each of the goals that they accomplish, money is put in an escrow and then if they successfully complete the program they can apply get the funds that they earned out of the escrow and use for their own benefits, so long as nobody in the family is receiving any welfare assistance,” he says.

Perry says Hussey had 48 checks issued in the names of FSS program participants saying they’d completed the program, and put them into her personal bank account. None of the people had requested the checks and they never got any of the money.

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.
Nora is originally from the Boston area but has lived in Chicago, Michigan, New York City and at the northern tip of New York state. Nora began working in public radio at Michigan Radio in Ann Arbor and has been an on-air host, a reporter, a digital editor, a producer, and, when they let her, played records.