{"id":387965,"date":"2026-09-02T05:50:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387965\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T05:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:50:52","slug":"woman-accused-of-defrauding-miami-dades-emergency-rental-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387965\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman accused of defrauding Miami-Dade\u2019s emergency rental program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Investigators recently accused a 48-year-old woman of defrauding a Miami-Dade County program that was meant to prevent homelessness during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/01\/mujer-acusada-por-fraude-al-programa-de-alquiler-de-emergencia-de-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/01\/mujer-acusada-por-fraude-al-programa-de-alquiler-de-emergencia-de-miami-dade\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A judge issued a warrant for Stacey Clark\u2019s arrest on Aug. 27, and the Miami-Dade County State Attorney\u2019s Office arrested her on Monday, according to court records. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lorraine Moore, a special agent with Miami-Dade County\u2019s Office of the Inspector General, investigated the Emergency Rental Assistance Program fraud case, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe ERAP accepted the representations in the application as true and correct,\u201d Moore wrote, according to the warrant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As a result, Miami-Dade County\u2019s ERAP issued a $34,450 check, made payable to the person Clark had identified as her landlord, on Sept. 8, 2021, according to the warrant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Clark, also known as Stacy Elizabeth Shuler-Clark, began the ERAP application process with Miami-Dade on or about July 21, 2021, according to the warrant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe ledgers stated that she was delinquent in rent payments from May of 2020 through August of 2021,\u201d Moore wrote, according to the warrant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Clark reported that she was a tenant at 12521 NW 22 Court, and that her employer, Bed Bath &amp; Beyond, had reduced her income, according to the warrant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt does not appear that Clark\u2019s representation regarding her decrease in income was truthful because a review of the bank records revealed that Clark\u2019s income increased during the period of time that she claimed that her income decreased,\u201d Moore wrote, according to the warrant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Moore also reported finding that Clark did not even live in Miami-Dade County, but in Pembroke Pines, according to the warrant. Clark faced two charges: Grand theft and organized fraud. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade corrections released Clark on Tuesday on a $15,000 bond, and her arraignment hearing was scheduled for 9 a.m. on Oct. 30, according to court records. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge David H. Young was set to preside over the case. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Investigators recently accused a 48-year-old woman of defrauding a Miami-Dade County program that was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-387965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}