A Maryland squatter posed online as a financial advisor, but was actually living off food stamps and sending her 16-year-old daughter out to work instead of school, while hiding out in a $2.3 million mansion, according to a report.
Tameika Goode, 40, who recently returned to the ritzy 7,500 sq ft home in the suburbs of Washington, DC, presented herself as a bankruptcy expert, flogging $800 courses online and sharing social media posts of her Porsche.
In reality, however, she was a squatter, living on a total monthly income of $946, which included $538 in child support and $408 in food stamps, according to bankruptcy records obtained by the Daily Mail.
“She is a shyster. She built this presence online, showing off the house, teaching people how to do bankruptcy stuff, and charging $800 to do your bankruptcy paperwork, and she herself doesn’t know how she is doing, and the courts are trying to hold her in contempt,” 19-year-old neighbor Ian Chen told the Mail.
Chen, a pre-law student at William & Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia, became suspicious after Goode moved into the next-door mansion in leafy Bethesda, Maryland, when the previous owners faced foreclosure and the bank took possession of the home in the summer of 2025.
He uncovered paperwork alleging that, far from a self-made success, Goode was actually a bankrupt layabout who sent her school-age daughter to work in a nearby Paris Baguette bakery.
“Her parents did not work,” Chen said of Goode’s daughter. “She wasn’t going to school; she seemed to be working and was the only source of income for that family.”
Chen, who set up cameras to film Goode living high on the hog in the mansion, claimed that multiple neighbors reported the situation to Child Protective Services, but no action was taken.
What followed was months of intimidation from Goode, including a brazen lawsuit against Chen, accusing him of stalking and trespassing, that was quickly thrown out by a judge in the District Court of Maryland.
Goode’s jailbird husband, Corey Pollard, briefly lived with her in the mansion, Chen told the Daily Mail.
He was rearrested in early December for allegedly stealing vehicles from a Pennsylvania dealership but was later released, before being arrested again on Jan. 23, according to court documents.
Pollard is currently in the Lancaster County jail on a $500,000 bond ahead of his next court date on Friday, records show.
Goode was finally convicted of breaking and entering and trespassing in late January and was sentenced to 90 days at Montgomery County Detention Center.
But the shameless grifter was out just two weeks later and moved straight back into the mansion on Feb. 2.
Chen called police on Feb. 10 when he saw Goode outside the house moving items into a U-Haul truck and she was rearrested.
Goode appeared at a bond hearing at Montgomery District Court via Zoom on Feb. 13, her tan prison suit a far cry from the designer outfits she flaunted online.
She was freed on a $5,000 bond ahead of a next scheduled court hearing on March 30.
The Bethesda home has now had its doors and windows boarded up and its locks changed to keep Goode and other would-be “fraudsters” out, Chen hopes.
“She [Goode] truly believed that she was entitled to this property. They really tried to hide and just fly under the radar and not think they were going to get caught,” he said.