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What do you think Contractor for Special Forces arrested for falsifying Social Security numbers?

• SHALIMAR — The president of a construction company working at the Army Special Forces cantonment was arrested Wednesday and charged with fraud for falsifying Social Security numbers of her employees, lawmen have announced. Her husband and two other employees were arrested on similar charges last month. Sheyenne Contreras, 30, president of H&S Drywall, was arrested in Lake County following a three-month investigation by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. She is charged with obtaining more than $900,000 in payments from the federal government using stolen and counterfeit Social Security numbers, many of which were procured by her company. “This particular case appears rare,” said Sheriff’s Inspector George Collins, who oversaw the investigation. “Usually what we find is that the employees themselves provide false information, but in this case the employer is a part of the scheme.” Collins said several employees told him that they had informed H&S Drywall they were in the country illegally before they were hired. They said the company then provided them with Social Security numbers. “We know they did provide numbers in some of the cases, but we don’t know when it was her or her husband,” Collins said. Contreras, who is a U.S. citizen, signed an affidavit stating that she would comply with federal immi-gration laws when she applied for the construction contract for the Army 7th Special Forces Group (Air-borne). The unit is moving from Fort Bragg, N.C., to a new home on Eglin Air Force Base land south of Crestview. “The affidavit … states that their company will use an employee verification system,” Collins said. “Obviously, they were not doing that.” Lawmen still are investigating whether Contreras used the money collected to pay her undocumented workers federally-mandated wages or kept the money for herself, Collins said. The investigation began in mid-September after a deputy arrested an illegal immigrant who said he worked for H&S Drywall, Collins said. After gathering evidence, Collins found 110 names and Social Security numbers that were fraudulent. Victor Contreras-Suarez, Contreras’ husband and vice-president of H&S, was arrested in December on related fraud charges. Contreras-Suarez, an illegal immigrant, is being held in Okaloosa County Jail. Two H&S employees also were arrested at the time. http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/special-36376-forces-numbers.html

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  Pretty sad when a US citizens screws her fellow citizens out of good paying jobs. Hope they both go away for a very long time.