Rachel Dolezal, also known as Nkechi Diallo, has booked and released on welfare fraud, other charges

Rachel Dolezal is photographed in March 2017, six months after changing her name to Nkechi Diallo.

(AP photo / Nicholas K. Geranios, file)

Nkechi Diallo, former president of the Spokane NAACP, who became known as Rachel Dolezal, a white woman identified as black, was recorded Monday in a prison in Washington State, where she is waiting for her trial. ] Diallo pleaded not guilty to first degree theft charges for welfare fraud, making false verification and false second-degree testimony last month. A judge ordered her released on her own pledge and gave her a Monday night deadline to report to Spokane County Jail for booking and fingerprinting

Diallo, who changed her name of Rachel Dolezal in October 2016 RACHEL DOLEZAL FACE FELINE'S FLIGHT IN THE CASE OF WELL-BEING FRAUD

The welfare fraud case began in March 2017 after that a state investigator has received information that Diallo had written a book – his autobiography, "In Full Color". The investigator reviewed Diallo's records and found that she had reported her income as less than $ 500 a month, according to court documents.

However, an assignment of his bank statements and other documents indicated that Diallo had deposited nearly $ 84,000 into his account. 2015-17, without reporting much of it to the State Department of Social and Health Services.

The money came from the sale of books, lectures, soap making, dolls and the sale of his art.

Diallo reported a change of circumstances at the state agency, saying that she had done punctual work in October 2017 worth $ 20,000, according to documents of the court.

Rachel Dolezal, as she was then known 2015 after her parents, with whom she has long disputed, told reporters that their daughter was white but presented herself as a black activist.

She said that she grew up near Troy, Mt., and began to change perspective Teenage, her religious parents adopted four black children. She decided a few years later that she would publicly identify as black.

In addition to resigning as president of Spokane NAACP, she was fired from a police oversight board, lost a freelance columnist position for a Spokane weekly, and was fired from her work as a police officer. teaching African Studies at the nearby University of East Washington

Associated Press contributed to this report.