August 15, 2018

A Florida landlord has paid $50,000 to end an investigation under the False Claims Act that he improperly charged certain low income tenants whose rents were subsidized by a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program. In choosing to participate in and receive subsidies from the Housing Choice Voucher/Section 8 (HCV) program, Edward Daniel had agreed to charge no more than was authorized by the local public housing agency. Instead, he allegedly charged unauthorized parking fees and excessively high rents, and quietly received double subsidies for overlapping periods from various public housing authorities. USAO SDFL

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