Daughter, Mother Who Ran Suffolk Nonprofit Charged With Fraud

A North Carolina woman and her mother have been indicted on federal charges that they defrauded more than $574,000 from a program designed to feed low-income children.

Cindy Hall and her mother, Stephanie Almond, falsified documents and exaggerated the number of children being fed through their Suffolk nonprofit in order to get more federal funds, which they used to buy vehicles and pay personal expenses, according to the indictment unsealed this week in U.S. District Court.

A grand jury charged Hall, of Monroe, N.C.; and Almond, of Franklin, Va., with 13 felony counts, including mail fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy. Hall is charged with two additional counts of unlawful money transactions.