NEWARK — A former Newark police officer has been sentenced to three months in prison for conspiring with another person to fraudulently obtain more than $60,000 in payments from a federal public housing assistance program.
Suliaman Kamara of Newark will also have to serve two years of supervised release once he?s freed from prison.
Prosecutors say that between September 2006 and December 2011, the 32-year-old Kamara lived with another person who was receiving federal housing benefits.
Program rules require recipients to report the names of everyone who lives in their home and the household?s overall income. Kamara and the other person agreed they would not tell officials that they were living together, so Kamara?s income would not be taken into account in determining whether the other person qualified for benefits.
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