TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – A Tallahassee woman was indicted by a federal grand jury for defrauding the Tallahassee Housing Authority (THA) in a scheme that put $378,000 in her pockets, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Florida.
45-year-old Lekishaann Huggins is charged with 39 counts of bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, four counts of spending money laundering and two counts of filing a false tax return.
Huggins oversaw the THA’s Housing Choice Voucher Program, which provides low-income families with housing assistance and federally subsidized housing, according to court documents.
The fraud happened within Tenmast and Yardi systems that the THA uses to make rent payments on behalf of program participants. The system had tenants’ addresses, their landlords’ names, and their landlords’ financial payment information.
In this role, Huggins had access to changing the bank account information for those landlords and could approve and change the tenant’s “End of Participation” status in the program.
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Court documents claim that from 2023 to 2025, Huggins replaced landlords’ bank account information with her own bank accounts.
The Tallahassee woman changed the landowner bank information for a landlord’s profile named “Cache LLC” to a Florida limited liability company she owned named “Cache Kloset LLC” that reportedly sold clothing online. She also added her personal bank account information.
“This updated and false information was automatically migrated into THA’s Yardi system during its transition from Tenmast,” court documents said.
Huggins did not update the system for 16 former THA tenants, which “falsely portrayed the former tenants as being eligible for HCV rent subsidies so Huggins could redirect the funds to herself.”
Over the two years of the scheme, Huggins continuously transferred funds between her personal bank accounts and her “Cache Kloset LLC” bank accounts.
In total, Huggins made over $378,000 and used the funds to support a “luxurious lifestyle,” with property such as designer handbags, purses and shoes, according to court documents.
The trial for Huggins is scheduled for Sept. 8 and she is facing up to 30 years in prison for each bank fraud count, 2 years for the aggravated theft count, up to 10 years for the spending money laundering count, 3 years for each false tax return filing count, restitution and forfeiture of assets.
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