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Rachel Dolezal Charged With Welfare Fraud

Authorities say the ex-NAACP leader obtained thousands in food assistance by downplaying the size of her income.

Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP leader in Washington state who sparked widespread condemnation after she was outed as a white woman posing as black, has been charged with theft by welfare fraud, perjury, and false verification for public assistance, KHQ-TV reports. From August 2015 to November 2017, Dolezal, who legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, received $8,747 in food assistance and $100 in child-care assistance that authorities say was illegally obtained. Diallo is accused of reporting an income of below $500 a month when she was in fact earning a much larger amount, with nearly $84,000 deposited into her bank account over a period of about two years.