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Canadian Woman Scams Welfare to Gamble9 November 2001HAMILTON, Ontario –Nov. 9, 2001 –As reported by the Toronto Star: "The wife of a murdered Hamilton man squandered nearly $134,000 at Ontario casinos and was building a four-bedroom house in Jamaica while pleading to a judge for more time to repay a 1998 welfare fraud. "Defence lawyer Jeffrey Schroeder apologized for his client's `accuracy gap' on two prior appearances in court. On those occasions, Julette Wall Frost, 51, claimed to be broke and unable to make full restitution to the City of Hamilton for her $12,300 fraud. "Assistant Crown attorney Katherine Livingstone told court that Wall gambled almost daily. Her losses were recorded electronically by a casino identification card, which gamblers swipe in slot machines and video lotteries to accumulate bonus points. The prosecutor argued it was an aggravating factor in sentencing that Wall deliberately deceived the court, choosing instead to fritter away the money gambling. "Hamilton Police Detective Lorne Moore prepared a report on Wall's gambling, along with information about the house she is building on five acres of land in Seaforth, southeast of Kingston, Jamaica. His report also includes mortgage and ownership records relating to properties Wall inherited after the 1998 murder of her husband, Clyde Frost. "…The 80-year-old man went missing on Jan. 25, 1998, five months after his marriage to Wall. His body was found eight days later inside his Dodge van, which was parked in the Regency Park area of Toronto. The elderly man had been beaten and had suffered a fatal blow to the head. "…She was charged with fraud over $5,000 after a newspaper article about her husband's murder tipped welfare investigators to her ineligibility to collect welfare. The affluent San Pedro Drive man owned 10 residential properties valued at more than $1 million…" |