Maron Moss, Jr., 49, of Miami, Fla., a former DC resident, applied for mortgage assistance for his Washington, D.C., home in 2018 and then submitted recertifications for continued program eligibility on six separate occasions between 2018 and 2019. Moss represented that he was suffering from financial hardship, was unemployed, and that his only source of income was unemployment benefits. Based on these representations, the D.C. Housing Finance Agency made more than $31,920 in monthly mortgage payments directly to Moss’s mortgage service companies. But Moss was, in fact, employed when he applied for the program, as well as during the entire period that he recertified his program eligibility, earning approximately $239,743 in income from at least five different employers during the relevant 20-month period.
In announcing the guilty plea, U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves, Principal Deputy Inspector General Melissa Bruce, and Inspector General Daniel Lucas commended the work of those who investigated the case from SIGTARP and the Office of Inspector General. They also acknowledged the efforts of Assistant U.S. Attorneys Benjamin Bleiberg and Brian Kelly who investigated and prosecuted the case.