North Potomac Resident Sent To Jail For Defrauding County

The Gazette has reported that North Potomac resident, Katherine Ting Tiong, was sentenced to 18 months in jail for theft and perjury in her attempt to make a profit from Montgomery County's affordable housing program.

In 2002, Tiong, 42, of Glen Mill Road, used her mother's name to purchase a house in Germantown through the County's Moderately Priced Dwelling Unit program and then began renting it out a year later, according to the story in the Gazette on Wednesday.

In September, the Montgomery County Circuit Court found Tiong guilty of four counts of perjury and two counts of theft for forging documents and lying underoath in a Montgomery County civil suit case to reclaim the property in 2006.

The former assistant county attorney who led the civil suit case told the Gazette that this is the first case of someone being criminally prosecuted for attempting to profit from an affodable housing program in Maryland.