Samantha Cookes, also known as ‘Carrie Jade Williams’, has been charged with over 200 fraudulent welfare payments made over four years.
today, charged with defrauding the Department of Social Protection of almost €60,000.
She initially submitted a claim for Supplementary Welfare Allowance in February 2020 on the basis that she had Huntington’s Disease.During the investigation, Gardaí discovered that the accused had told her doctor that she was adopted and therefore couldn’t prove that she was previously diagnosed with Huntington’s.Garda Raphael Liston told Judge David Waters that Ms Cookes has a history of using multiple aliases to hide her identity.
Despite that, they were forced to lie in wait at Tralee Post Office on a day when she was collecting her benefits as she failed to respond to them.
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