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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. Grindstaff is staying at the LaGuardia Plaza Hotel. In her videos, she details the food she’s provided...