NSW woman jailed for $3.6m childcare fraud

By EducationHQ News Team
Published May 26, 2017

A NSW childcare director who bought a pool, expensive car and house with $3.6 million-worth of fraudulently obtained federal government payments has been sentenced to at least four years in jail.

SYDNEY, May 26 - But lawyers for Melissa Jade Higgins, who was convicted of 81 offences in November, has already filed ...

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NSW woman jailed for $3.6m childcare fraud

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