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CHA Fraud by City Employees.. Posted on October 15, 2025 at 02:11:50 by WestSide BestSide
Two Chicago police officers, a city firefighter and a former Water Department employee have been indicted on federal fraud charges alleging they lied about their employment and income for years to qualify for subsidized housing assistance.
Charged in four separate indictments were: Fredrick White, 37, and Sherry Chester, 44, both veterans of the Chicago police department; Kaneasha Twyman, 37, a veteran firefighter and paramedic; and Tyrone Coleman, 61, a retired hoisting engineer with the Department of Water Management. Each defendant was charged with defrauding a government program and wire fraud.
Coleman pleaded not guilty at an arraignment Tuesday before U.S. District Judge John Kness, court records show. His lawyer, Chris Hotaling, declined to comment.
Arraignments for the other three defendants were scheduled for later in the month. It was not clear on the public docket whether White or Twyman had hired lawyers. Reached by phone Tuesday afternoon, Chester declined to comment, saying she just learned of the charges and had yet to hire an attorney.
A Chicago police spokesperson confirmed Tuesday that White is on active status and assigned to the Harrison (11th) District. Chester is on inactive status from the 8th District, currently detailed to a non-emergency callback unit, the spokesman said.
The Chicago Fire Department did not immediately respond to questions about Twyman’s status.
According to the indictment against White, he was registered with the Chicago Housing Authority as a disabled veteran since 2014 and received vouchers for monthly rental assistance and other “periodic credits.”
On forms certifying his eligibility, White claimed his only income was from his veteran’s benefits and failed to disclose his employment as a Chicago police officer and also income he received as a private security guard, the indictment alleged.
Chester, meanwhile, was already received housing vouchers under the same program when she was hired by the Chicago Police Department, according to the indictment against her. In 2022, after the CHA notified her that the subsidies would be canceled because of her job, Chester allegedly submitted documents falsely claiming that she had moved out her subsidized unit and providing a false new address.
Chester also submitted a phony lease purporting to show she’d moved out as well as a signed statement “falsely stating that she had relinquished her housing voucher” to a relative who had been living with Chester in the CHA subsidized unit, the indictment alleged.
In reality, Chester continued living in the CHA-subsidized unit for another two years before being booted from the program, the indictment stated.
The indictment against Twyman alleged she failed to disclose her employment with the Chicago Fire Department to the CHA for more than five years as she received housing benefits. When confronted in late 2022, Twyman denied in an email that she was employed by the city and demanded a hearing, the charges alleged.
In 2023, Twyman “testified falsely under oath at a CHA hearing that she had never been employed by the City of Chicago and had no income,” the indictment alleged.
Twyman, meanwhile, is featured in numerous social media posts — some in full Chicago Fire Department uniform — touting her position as a firefighter/EMT, “breaking barriers and inspiring future generations.”
She could not immediately be reached for comment.
According to the indictment against Coleman, he had been receiving living assistance from CHA as a “zero-income” tenant since at least 1994. From 2016 to 2022, Coleman was employed full-time as a hoisting engineer with the Department of Water Management, earning a full salary and overtime, plus disability-related payments for at least one of those years, the indictment alleged.
In March 2022, Coleman applied for a hardship voucher claiming he was going to be evicted from his $75-a-month subsidized apartment because of an inability to pay.
CHA wound up waiving his minimum rent payment of $41, the indictment alleged.