Couple charged with daycare fraud 27 (UPI) -- An Indiana couple have been charged with cheating the federal government of millions of dollars by inflating payments to their daycare centers. Donald E. Crumpton, 55, and his wife, La Fawn Crumpton, 45, of Fortville, Ind., were arrested Tuesday night, The Indianapolis Star reported. A federal grand jury in Indianapolis handed up a lengthy indictment Wednesday. The Crumptons ran daycare centers in poor neighborhoods in Indianapolis, many of them registered as religious ministries, the Star said. Many of the centers used the name Little Miracles. Investigators say the couple faked records to ensure the government paid the maximum possible in aid for each child eligible for subsidy regardless of whether the child was at the center for all the hours claimed. Tim Horty, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Joseph Hogsett, said investigators have not yet determined how much of the $9 million in federal aid paid the Crumptons was obtained fraudulently but said it is almost certainly in the millions. State regulators, who administer the federal program, cut the daycare centers off from aid in January, effectively closing them down. At the time, more than 300 children were spending time at the centers.