Hotel Isolation Program News Today

A Brooklyn woman admitted to being a part of a scheme to defraud the New York City COVID-19 Hotel Room Isolation Program of over $400,000.

Leala Grindstaff posted a video to her TikTok account on Dec. 30 explaining that she had just tested positive for COVID-19 and that she would be spending the next two weeks quarantining at a hotel through the city’s Hotel Isolation Program. In a video published about a week later, she explained that she chose to participate in the program because she lives in a four-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment and didn’t feel like she could properly isolate herself from the people she lives with. Grin...