MIAMI – A man was arrested on Friday for allegedly manipulating someone with an intellectual disability to steal from a local government program that is designed to help low-income first-time home buyers, according to Miami-Dade prosecutors.

Elie Floradin “engaged” the man as a straw buyer to obtain about $120,000 through fraudulent transactions involving the Miami-Dade’s Economic Advocacy Trust, according to the Miami-Dade County Commission on Ethics and Public Trust.

Floradin, 58, is accused of exploiting the Economic Advocacy Trust’s mission “to ensure the equitable participation of Blacks in … economic growth” by targeting the trust’s Homeownership Assistance Program, which provides zero-interest deferred loans and second forgivable balloon mortgages.

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