LEBANON — The former Harveysburg administrator already convicted of stealing from the village was placed on three more years of probation for ripping off the welfare system.

        “I've done some really stupid things in my life,” Kimble Grant, 46, of Waynesville, told Judge P. Daniel Fedders during the brief hearing Tuesday in Warren County Common Pleas Court.

        “I've got children and I need to let them know that life just isn't, "Do whatever you can to get by.' I want to make things right,” Mr. Grant said.

        Judge Fedders said he found it ironic that Mr. Grant, who stole $20,615 in Medicaid payments, was still receiving a monthly $1,300 disability check from the Social Security Administration.

        He ordered Mr. Grant to turn the check over to the county monthly to make restitution to welfare.

        Mr. Grant pleaded guilty in August to felony Medicaid fraud and one misdemeanor count of falsification. In exchange, a more serious felony — illegal use of food stamps — and a second charge of falsification were dismissed.

        He was accused of fraudulently obtaining $8,936 in food stamps and $11,679 in Medicaid payments from 1997 to 1999, just before he embezzled $11,500 from Harveysburg.

        Authorities said he failed to report that he was receiving income from other sources, which inflated the amount he was allowed to receive in government benefits.

        Mr. Grant was sentenced to serve six months in jail last year and was placed on probation for three years for stealing from Harveysburg by writing checks to himself, charging personal items on village credit cards and paying personal computer leases and a power bill with taxpayer money in 1999.

        The illegal spending surfaced in a state audit released after Mr. Grant left the administrator's job."I've done some really stupid things in my life.'

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