Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday charges against 12 home-based childcare providers in San Diego County who are accused of defrauding the government out of more than $10 million by collecting childcare subsidies when they were not actually serving children.
The charges, filed last week in 12 separate cases in San Diego federal court, allege that the providers knowingly submitted false attendance records to two local childcare resource agencies — YMCA of San Diego County and Child Development Associates — who then paid state childcare subsidy funds to them based on those records.
In some cases, the licensed providers allegedly claimed to be caring for more than 20 children per day when in reality they were caring for none, according to prosecutors.
The defendants, all of whom are located in San Diego and El Cajon, each collected between $538,000 and $1.2 million in childcare…
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