A January trial date was set for a San Mateo human services worker who siphoned $1.5 million from the department from 1996 to the spring of 2000 by writing fraudulent welfare checks to her friends. Jacquelyn Adams will face a jury on January 10 on charges of embezzlement of public funds, falsifying and destroying accounts, and misappropriation of public funds.
A case worker at the county's human services agency, Adams entered five of her friends with false San Mateo county residences into the system for welfare funding, and then split the proceeds with them, according to Steve Wagstaffe, chief deputy district attorney.
Adams' friends, Trayse Bryant, Tina Elliot, Zena Thomas Warren, and Alison Roberts also face embezzlement charges.Adams worked for the agency since the early 1990's and earned an official $40,000 a year. But she maintained a large home in Hayward, and owned several Lexus vehicles. The prosecution is currently investigating whether she used some of the embezzled money to purchase these items.
Adams was caught when she went on a vacation and another worker noticed the false paperwork on Adams' desk.
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