Former day care owner gets probation

Published Feb. 12, 2010 at 1:38 p.m.
A former day care owner whose center was used in crime boss Michael Lock's multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud machine was sentenced Thursday to five years probation, including eight months of home confinement.Nicole Brown faced 8 to 14 months in prison under federal sentencing guidelines. Defense attorney Jonathan Smith asked for leniency, saying Brown is suffering from kidney failure and waiting for a transplant. The prosecutor agreed to home confinement, noting the high cost of caring for prisoners needing transplants.Brown pleaded guilty to the felony fraud charge in May 2008, yet she continued to operate Jasmine's Learning House, near N. 35th and W. Congress streets, and continued to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars from the taxpayer-financed Wisconsin Shares program for more than a year after her conviction.


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