Millionaire who fraudulently collected $168,000 in welfare handed 21 months in prison

Millionaire who fraudulently collected $168,000 in welfare handed 21 months in prison
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Under Minnesota sentencing guidelines, Colin Chisholm III would ordinarily have been given probation for fraudulently taking public assistance. But because the self-described Scottish aristocrat and his wife took $167,420 worth of food stamps, Medicaid, and other government aid over seven years — while living on a $2.1 million yacht in Florida and lakeside mansion outside Minneapolis — prosecutors in Hennepin County, Minnesota, won a 21-month jail sentence for Chisholm on Monday.

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