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Section 8 Housing Fraud Scandal

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A woman tried to get free rent for her friends…by offering thousands of dollars to employees of the section eight housing authority.

FOX 11 Investigative Reporter Gina Silva has been digging on the story for months… and when she approached Rita Aleksanyan - it got very ugly.

Also in Gina's next report -- find out what the housing authority is now doing to stop anybody else from bribing employees.

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