Michigan Lotto Winner Who Was Charged With Welfare Fraud Found Dead
A Michigan woman who admitted receiving food stamps after winning $1 million in the lottery has been found dead. Although the police have not
released a cause of death, WXYZ TV in Detroit reports that police suspect a drug overdose:
Amanda Clayton’s body was found in Ecorse Saturday morning. Results from the autopsy are pending.
Friends found the troubled lottery winner lying on the bed holding her one and a half year old daughter.
When she went to a home in Ecorse on Friday night to see her kids, 25-year-old Amanda Clayton appeared confused said her friend’s boyfriend.
The boyfriend of one of Clayton’s friend said she had been acting strange in the hours before her death.
“She was already in a bad stage. Her legs were shaking. You know she was going through her prayers. She was eating food with the kids,” he said.
Clayton sparked national outrage when it was discovered that she was still receiving food stamps even after she had won $1 million dollars in the Michigan lottery. Clayton did not report her lottery winnings, and continued to receive around $200 a month in food stamps.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said at the time that it was “ simply common sense that million dollar lottery winners forfeit their right to public assistance,” and many right wing outlets had a fields day condemning Clayton, and painting her as a poster child for a culture of dependency.
She pleaded no contest to welfare fraud and was sentenced to probation in July.
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This is a very sad situation…was she unaware of the problem? It is disgusting how our “justice system” can single out a woman who did something like this…and charge her. Why not just ask her to REPAY whatever she got in stamps?
Why aren’t some of the CROOKS on WALL STREET charged with fraud? — after all — they crashed the entire economy.
This just goes to show these crackers, who always come down on Black women, who are on welfare, that caucasoids do the same d**n thang, BUT worse!!!
She was used to buying that weak meth or crack, and with that money she won, she was able to buy the pure shyt, which killed her! She really should’ve been behind bars because, that was an act of welfare fraud winning all that money and didin’t report it.
Perhaps, if she would’ve spent some time in jail, she would be alive today! If she would’ve been a Black welfare mother, she would be in jail, the government would’ve taken away her children, and they would’ve taken that money back!
Even poor caucasoids get breaks when they BREAK the law! Now, she is dead; while somebody else will take that money and buy more drugs with it!
WHERE Y’ALL CRACKERS AT ON THIS ARTICLE???