By james art 
A Florida woman has been in prison years ago if she is sentenced to suppress her subsidized apartment in Bronx while telling city authorities that she is only $ 24 a year.
Australia Gonzalez, 65 -year -old, collected rental payments from tenants in his subsidized apartment in Bronx from 2019 to 2024, according to the City Department of Investigation. She has been charged with filing declarations, stating that she is unemployed, which makes thousands of dollars in federal rental subsidies.
In fact, prosecutors say, she lived in Balmi Hyalea, Florida, just outside Miami, while raising money for more than 1000 miles. The Bronx apartment was paid through the Federal Program to assist in Section 8, which is intended for low -income residents as an alternative to homelessness, according to investigators.
The cops arrested Gonzalez in Bronx on Thursday, according to records. Prosecutors say she has lured NYCHA to pay off her rent of over $ 50,000.
“This defendant, the recipient of Section 8, received tens of thousands of dollars of rent subsidies to which she was not entitled, missed and mistakenly submit to the key facts of NYCHA about her stay and household income, according to a statement by the Ministry of Investigation, Jocelyn E. Stryber.
Gonzalez raised rent from tenants in his Bronx apartment since November 2019, with one tenant paying $ 800 a month, while another who moved there in April 2022 and remained until November 2023, paid between $ 750 and $ 800 a month, prosecutors say in court records.
Gonzalez has admitted that he was not guilty of the Bronx Penal Court on Thursday on a number of charges, including filed a fake instrument and a major theft, according to court records. She was released without guarantee and is forthcoming in May in May.
Gonzalez’s lawyer declined to comment on the allegations.