LANCASTER – One-time Antelope Valley resident Nadya “Octomom” Suleman pleaded no contest Monday to one misdemeanor count of welfare fraud for failing to report nearly $30,000 in earnings when she filed for welfare in Lancaster, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.
The 39-year-old Suleman, whose real name is Natalie Denise Suleman, entered her plea after proving to the judge she repaid more than $26,000 to the state and Los Angeles County.
She was immediately sentenced to two years of summary probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.
Suleman, who gained notoriety by giving birth to octuplets, filed for public assistance in Lancaster in January 2013. While applying for public aid, the mother of 14 children failed to disclose that she was also getting checks for personal appearances, for posing topless in different publications and for doing a pornographic video. She was charged with failure to report nearly $30,000 in extra income she earned between Jan. 1, 2013, and June 30, 2013.
Suleman originally faced four felony counts in the welfare fraud case and could have been sentenced to nearly six years in jail.
Suleman has since paid back $9,805 to the California Department of Health Care Services for Medi-Cal overpayments and $16,481 to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services for aid.
Suleman is no longer receiving aid in Los Angeles County because she moved to Orange County in April 2013, according to Deputy District Attorney William Clark.
Suleman and her children were reportedly living in Palmdale from around October 2012 to April 2013. Shortly after moving into the 5,000-square-foot Palmdale home, Suleman gave Rumorfix.com a tour of the residence (see video above).
Months later, Suleman left the Palmdale home in squalor when her landlord moved to evict her for not paying rent, according to Radaronline, which posted the eviction notice online.
The case was investigated by the Department of Public Social Services.
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Bro says
“It’s important to teach your children accountability early regarding ‘their messes'” says the mom that committed welfare fraud. No octopus, omission isn’t being accountable. You really need to stop talking
Who gave this lady 14 children?
Nicobar Ilha says
A lovely woman
I wonder says
where are all the activists and NAACP who fought against Welfare fraud inspections in the past? lol …
marcia-mars says
Game the system!?? All of you complaining about people on welfare and frauding The system do not know what it is like to struggle and tgen have to compete with know it alls for a freakin job. Know it alls like yous get everything off of broken backs and low income people who try to better themselves but cant cause yous use us to gainrecognition and trample on us to make your way to the top. Celebrity she is cause youall pushed for the excitement and now that shes using that to take care of her children your all jealous just like men using woman and then walking out like what they do is ok….I can say shes smart and trying to take care of her kids
A says
I understand what you’re saying but maybe she shouldn’t have had so many more children. I understand there are some people who could use the help but it seems like she just wanted a paycheck. One that would get bigger by having 8 more kids.
marcia-mars says
I agree but I still beleive theres another hand at work here and hes greater than many. School option She still can. Its just going to take a little longer.
CB says
marcia-mars, you are the typical victim – entitlement type. Please do yourself and society a favor, stop feeling sorry for yourself and go to school.
anonymous says
She’s a typical lancaster welfare recipient, look at the way she talks. Like an uneducated moron! So disappointing!
marcia-mars says
I have an education and I definitely don’t feel sorry for myself. I definitely am nit entitled to anything but I do ask for respect .
marcia-mars says
Good Luck Octomom. TheAV people sit on their high horses and talk crap about about everyone but seem to exclude themselves from any wrong doing. Predjudice is everywhere. As a mom struggling to raise kids and pay bills society blames us lower income class or welfare moms for this that and the other. People have to know people to get jobs or do jobs that keep us at the bottom of the pay scale…Good for you. You still take care of your kids and deal with the harshness of this system that keeps lower class down. I wish i could get work but also i have a second strike against me mother of still 6 children i need to raisr I am disabled…every time i apply for a job i have to list…also being close ,to 40 myself this world is harsh.Props to you. Keep your head up. I love my children but i feel the future will just get worse especially with everyones attitude not changing for the better. Life is what wemke it and our future are our children..Keep Your head up.
sacryinshame says
I somewhat agree with both Jon and Kaydee.
I am curious as to how her fraud case (as small as it is), got rushed through the investigation and trial process so quickly.
I have been told that it takes years to investigate. Meanwhile, the fraud continues and the fraudster is allowed to move around, travel and relocate. Seriously, I don’t get it.
marcia-mars says
Shes not a fraudster…sounds like jealousy to me…Were you spoon fed?
sacryinshame says
Don’t you eat with a spoon? I do. Maybe you should read a remark before you comment on it. I never called Nadia a fraudster. I referred to her fraud case.
Not jealous of Nadia and her 14 kids. Feel sad that she is in this position. She was so close to getting her Dr. degree and would have been able to support her family as a counselor or professor.
Jon says
So its somewhat interesting that she used to live here but it seems our AVT staff likes finding a way to weasel some tabloid smut into a random article. Would you like your financial issues posted online in any circumstance? This article does not help anyone. If this was written to appeal to people who buy tabloids, then our newspaper is going downhill. How about writing an article that raises awareness on crime in our area in general. Im pretty sure more people get the paper than watch AV3.
Kaydee says
Oh get off your high horse. This leech gamed the system and she did it in Lancaster. I would say that’s local news. Every time a person of color makes the news for a crime, people wail about Section 8 without ever knowing if said criminal is receiving any public assistance. Now here we have a “celebrity” on public assistance who games the system and gets caught, and you think it’s not news?! It shows that people of all races game the system and use public assistance.
marcia-mars says
I agree on using the news to show all that happenes in The AV but even they won’t post everything. …How many children have disappeared out here or even how many gangs have opened buisness out here? Better yet who is really running the AV?….
Dixie says
Train wreck
j says
I feel sorry for whoever viewed that porno… AND A BIG [removed] U GOES TO YOU NADYA. More of my wasted tax dollars.