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Witness Problems in Childcare Fraud Cases

Wisconsin prosecutors may have difficulty presenting their cases against childcare providers accused of scamming the Wisconsin Shares program. In one case in Milwaukee, witnesses didn’t show up or disappeared during the trial. Their testimony is a crucial part of the cases for both sides. Childcare providers in the cases are accused of bilking cash from [...]

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Child Care Center Files for Chapter 11

A Wisconsin child care center at the center of a federal fraud investigation is filing for bankruptcy. The Tranquility Learning and Educational Academy in Milwaukee lost its license after officials discovered $55,000 in state and federal business taxes were unpaid, according to News-Talk WTAQ. The center also owes several thousand for unemployment benefits. A federal [...]

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Editorial: Head Start Needs Reform

After a series of stories exposed rampant fraud in Wisconsin’s Head Start programs, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel posted a new editorial letter urging Wisconites to support reforms to the program. In a letter from Lindsey Burke, policy analyst in Domestic Policy Studies, and David Muhlhausen, senior policy analyst in the Center for Data Analysis at The [...]

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Two WI Head Starts Guilty of Fraud

A federal undercover sting caught fraud at eight Head Starts nationally – including two in Wisconsin. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that workers told applicants to falsify their income so they could enroll their children in the low-income daycare program. From the Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel: In the Wisconsin centers, GAO investigators posed as grandparents who [...]

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