A Maryland squatter posed on-line as a monetary adviser, however was truly residing off meals stamps and sending her 16-year-old daughter out to work as a substitute of college, whereas hiding out in a $2.3 million mansion, in line with a report.
Tameika Goode, 40, who lately returned to the ritzy 7,500-square-foot house within the suburbs of Washington, DC, offered herself as a chapter professional, flogging $800 programs on-line and sharing social media posts of her Porsche.
In actuality, nonetheless, she was a squatter, residing on a complete month-to-month revenue of $946, which included $538 in youngster help and $408 in meals stamps, in line with chapter data obtained by the Every day Mail.
“She is a shyster. She constructed this presence on-line, exhibiting off the home, instructing folks the best way to do chapter stuff, and charging $800 to do your chapter paperwork, and she or he herself doesn’t know the way she is doing, and the courts try to carry her in contempt,” 19-year-old neighbor Ian Chen informed the Mail.
Chen, a pre-law pupil at William & Mary School in Williamsburg, Virginia, grew to become suspicious after Goode moved into the next-door mansion in leafy Bethesda, Maryland, when the earlier house owners confronted foreclosures and the financial institution took possession of the house in the summertime of 2025.
He uncovered paperwork alleging that, removed from a self-made success, Goode was truly a bankrupt layabout who despatched her school-age daughter to work in a close-by Paris Baguette bakery.
“Her dad and mom didn’t work,” Chen stated of Goode’s daughter. “She wasn’t going to high school; she gave the impression to be working and was the one supply of revenue for that household.”
Chen, who arrange cameras to movie Goode residing excessive on the hog within the mansion, claimed that a number of neighbors reported the state of affairs to Baby Protecting Providers, however no motion was taken.
What adopted was months of intimidation from Goode, together with a brazen lawsuit towards Chen, accusing him of stalking and trespassing, that was rapidly thrown out by a decide within the District Court docket of Maryland.
Goode’s jailbird husband, Corey Pollard, briefly lived along with her within the mansion, Chen informed the Every day Mail.
He was rearrested in early December for allegedly stealing autos from a Pennsylvania dealership however was later launched, earlier than being arrested once more on Jan. 23, in line with court docket paperwork.
Pollard is presently within the Lancaster County jail on a $500,000 bond forward of his subsequent court docket date on Friday, data present.
Goode was lastly convicted of breaking and coming into and trespassing in late January and was sentenced to 90 days at Montgomery County Detention Heart.
However the shameless grifter was out simply two weeks later and moved straight again into the mansion on Feb. 2.
Chen referred to as police on Feb. 10 when he noticed Goode exterior the home transferring objects right into a U-Haul truck and she or he was rearrested.
Goode appeared at a bond listening to at Montgomery District Court docket by way of Zoom on Feb. 13, her tan jail go well with a far cry from the designer outfits she flaunted on-line.
She was freed on a $5,000 bond forward of a subsequent scheduled court docket listening to on March 30.
The Bethesda house has now had its doorways and home windows boarded up and its locks modified to maintain Goode and different would-be “fraudsters” out, Chen hopes.
“She [Goode] really believed that she was entitled to this property. They actually tried to cover and simply fly underneath the radar and never assume they had been going to get caught,” he stated.
