{"id":77366,"date":"2017-07-12T07:03:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T14:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=77366"},"modified":"2017-07-30T13:44:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T20:44:56","slug":"misdemeanor-welfare-misrepresentation-case-dismissed-against-octomom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2017\/07\/12\/misdemeanor-welfare-misrepresentation-case-dismissed-against-octomom\/","title":{"rendered":"Misdemeanor welfare misrepresentation case dismissed against \u201cOctomom\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner dismissed the case Tuesday against “Octomom” Nadya Suleman<\/strong>, who pleaded no contest about three years ago to misrepresentation on a welfare application she filed \u00a0in Lancaster in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suleman, who turned 42 Tuesday, was ordered in July 2014 to complete 200 hours of community service and serve two years on probation. Her probation was later extended by a year to give her additional time to complete the community service hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Because of medical problems, we agreed with the court that we would forgive a few of the community service hours,” Deputy District Attorney William Clark said after the brief hearing.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mother of 14, who already had six children when she gave birth to octuplets in 2009, did not appear before Commissioner H. Elizabeth Harris.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suleman’s attorney, Arthur J. LaCilento, said he appreciated that his client was treated fairly by the court and the District Attorney’s Office.<\/span><\/p>\n

“She has some challenges, but she’s working hard and she loves her children,” he said outside court.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suleman filed for public assistance in Lancaster in January 2013, after a stint in rehab for anxiety and exhaustion depleted her savings, her representative said at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Suleman failed to report the extra income she earned through checks for personal appearances and residual from videos in the first six months of 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suleman — whose real name is Natalie Denise Suleman<\/strong> — made full restitution by the time of her plea, paying back more than $26,000 she had received, according to Clark.<\/span><\/p>\n

Previous related stories:<\/span><\/p>\n

Octomom pleads to welfare fraud<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Octomom charged with welfare fraud<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner dismissed the case Tuesday against “Octomom” Nadya Suleman, who pleaded no contest about three years ago to misrepresentation on a welfare application she filed \u00a0in Lancaster in 2013. Suleman, who turned 42 Tuesday, was ordered in July 2014 to complete 200 hours of community service and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}