(The Center Square) – Three people are accused of fraudulently taking money from the Knox County Emergency Rental Assistance Program, according to a report from the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office.

Amanda McKay, a former employee of the Knox County Grants and Community Development, is accused of registering her former husband as a landlord and sending him more than $66,000 for emergency rental assistance when her former husband was not a landlord and did not own any properties, according to the report.