Your Tax Dollars at Work

David Silverstein and Lyudmila Shimonova lived in this $1.2 million lakefront home. 

By the way -- you helped them with the rent. They've been collecting $1,200 a month in housing assistance. We'll still be paying their rent, but it will be going to the federal penitentiary system where they have been sentenced to reside for the next 18 months on charges of defrauding the government in this scheme as well as others. In the meantime, they've been ordered to pay back $261,000. Do you think the taxpayers will ever see a dime of that?

"Pair in mansion now to inhabit prison cells." The Dallas Morning News; September 22, 2012; p. 8A.