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Hasime Lika, 34, was charged with welfare fraud in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Thursday.
A Staten Island woman is accused of collecting Medicaid benefits while living large in a new, multi-million dollar, swimming pool-equipped home and cruising around in a luxury Rolls Royce.
Hasime Lika, 34, allegedly claimed no income or assets when she signed up to the health assistance program in 2006, getting payments totaling $47,000 through 2011.
During that time, she lived with Bill Lika, her common-law husband and father of her two children, said assistant district attorney Joel Greenwald.
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Lika lives with her common-law husband Bill Lika in a $2.4 million home on Staten Island.
Bill Lika is a landlord who owns at least 14 apartment buildings, had assets exceeding $5 million, and in 2007 purchased a $2.4 million house in State Island’s tony Todt Hill neighborhood, prosecutors charged.
The home had a swimming pool and a three-car garage where “a Rolls Royce and a Mercedes-Benz were observed regularly parked,” Greenwald said in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
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The pricey Staten Island home the Likas shared had a three-car garage where ‘a Rolls Royce and a Mercedes-Benz were observed regularly parked,’ prosecutors said.
“This case is an egregious example of an individual who lied to the system by hiding income and a plethora of luxurious resources,” said Robert Doar, Commissioner of the Human Resources Administration.
Hasime Lika, who sources said is pregant, was charged with welfare fraud and grand larceny that can result in up to seven years in prison. She pleaded not guilty and released without bail.
Her husband was not charged.
Lika and her lawyer Scott Klein declined to comment.
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