A
former state DHHR case worker has been named in a 35-count federal
criminal indictment.
Federal
prosecutors have charged Shannon Collins, 41, of Logan, also known as
Shannon Varney, with various counts of fraud.
It’s
alleged Collins took the social numbers from two deceased residents while she
worked at the DHHR in 2009 and allegedly used those numbers to establish false
accounts and to file false claims. Prosecutors said she had the money sent to
her post office box.
Collins
also allegedly mailed herself two food stamp cards.
