This problem is in a post of mine from a few weeks ago. When i drove the cab they used to sell them in the deli to get drugs.
Strictly speaking she isn’t the only one defrauding the Food Stamp program. Those who sold the Food Stamps to her also defrauded the government and should be identified and prosecuted as well.
I wonder how they caught her. This sort of thing is extremely widespread in smaller grocery store and corner bodegas.
When I was in college I stayed in the rough part of town because it was cheap. The local supermarket, such as it was, would always have a bunch of people standing outside offering to sell you their food stamps for pennies of the dollar because food stamps won’t buy booze, cigarettes, or drugs. This was 25 years ago. It’s nothing new. I guess the innovative thing here was the store owner being the purchaser of said stamps.
She must of been caught when she refused to pay off the necessary gov’t officials.
In four years 3.6 million that is significant cash in such a short time, what is more amazing it took 4 years to catch her, apparently no one is watching how are tax dollars are being stolen, you have to assume just based on how much she accumulated that for every one like her who is caught, there are many more getting away with this fraud, the risk it seems is well worth it, at a million a year it sure beats robbing banks and I’ll bet the penalty for this type of theft is a fraction what a bank robber would face.
What a fat hog! Looks like she was eating all her ill gotten gains.
And why is she charged with only one count each?
Why not 3.6 million counts?
She will probably get off with a wrist slap when she should get around 50 years at hard labor.
Apparently, cheating the government of $900,000/year is a SNAP.
“She was able to scam the program by buying food stamp benefits from receipts for half the actual value. “
Like everyone in the country has the opportunity to do- without a measurable chance of being caught.
Fraud for at least this program would disappear if the program was cancelled. That goes for all the other bleeding heart welfare checks. Oops I forgot about the abundant bureaucracy supporting the program. What will happen to them? Oh the hughmanitee
My guess was right. A highly-privileged member of America’s #1 government-certified victim group.
Social justice.
So our tax dollars are going to drug cartels.
Even a 10% cut in benefits would save millions for the taxpayer. For the individual recipient, it would be $90 instead of $100.
IOW, 3 or 4 fewer bags of potato chips.
What this woman did is commonplace, and it’s hard to catch.
The money laundering was what tripped her up.
And these are only the ones dumb enough to get caught.
I’m sorry, but we are going to have to start hanging thieves.
There are too many of them, and they are not afraid of prison.
There should be MANDATORY JAIL TIME for government fraud (minimum 10 years) AND immediate deportation (afterwards) if it is an immigrant
I see where federal funds were misused, but I don’t see where the government was out 3 million dollars.
Another legal alien?