Posted on 02/26/2018 5:47:06 PM PST by Mount Athos
I certainly hope this crap about bodegas selling SNAP recipients ineligible goods, selling them containers to ship their U.S.-bought goodies back to “my country”, and all other fraud is brought to a screeching halt. I’m sure we lead the world in getting taken advantage of by the world’s do-nothings.
Make them pay it back or go directly to jail. Make fraudster’s stores ineligible to accept SNAP payments.
Bull hockey! I think you should multiply that number by 10 or 100.
“...25,954 were convenience stores.......... We know who/what owns most of them!
grrrrr ping,..
And Moochelle wondered why there were "Food deserts" in urbanland?
Should read:”35 thousand retailers and 35 million recipients”
Why the hell does all government fraud, abuse, cheating, embezzlement, etc. have to become GARGANTUAN in size before being found out? Where the hell are the auditors?
I’ll bet if Facebook, Apple, Amazon, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc had $1B of fraud losses, they would know immediately.
Government sucks and is the root cause of all of our problems. Does anybody who works in government give a sh!t about doing their work properly?
“We know who/what owns most of them!”
Is that a whiff of profiling I detect?
Because NRA?
Doing their work properly, LOL, LOL, LOL!!! They DONT HAVE TO they are union!!!!
Feb 24, 2015 - In Los Angeles County, there are over. 2,000 small neighborhood markets and over 600 convenience stores that do business in the region
That was just L.A.County in 2015! To put it bluntly the USDA's estimate, considering it is for the entire USA, is a load of carp!
“Food Deserts”
Having to drive a mile or more to get to a grocery store! The horrors. What a rotten country. We need socialism and we need it now. (/s in case you were wondering)
Our local Safeway is 1.25 miles away. Am I in a “food desert”? The salmon and brown rice I just ate was pretty tasty and I don’t feel very hungry now.
BREITBART REPORTED EARLIER: Among the terror jihadists that travel back and forth through our porous southern border w/ Mexico is a Kuwaiti refugee named Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir, an ISIS operative who lives in the Mexican state of Chihuahua not far from El Paso, Texas, authorities reported.
According to US intelligence, Khabir now provides training to thousands of jihadis mostly from Syria and Yemen at a base in near Ciudad Juarez, which is located just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
US authorities found out about this shocker during an investigation of food stamp fraud in a NJ bodega, as they looked into the store's wire-transfers (remittances).
The wire-transfers all seemed to trace back to one or two accounts in Mexico City.
Cooperating with Mexican Authorities, it soon became apparent that the bodega was aiding and abetting terror. Laundered money was wire-transferred from the NJ bodega to terror cells in Mexico.
BREITBART REPORTED EARLIER: Among the terror jihadists that travel back and forth through our porous southern border w/ Mexico is a Kuwaiti refugee named Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir, an ISIS operative who lives in the Mexican state of Chihuahua not far from El Paso, Texas, authorities reported.
According to US intelligence, Khabir now provides training to thousands of jihadis mostly from Syria and Yemen at a base in near Ciudad Juarez, which is located just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
US authorities found out about this shocker during an investigation of food stamp fraud in a NJ bodega, as they looked into the store's wire-transfers (remittances).
The wire-transfers all seemed to trace back to one or two accounts in Mexico City.
Cooperating with Mexican Authorities, it soon became apparent that the bodega was aiding and abetting terror. Laundered money was wire-transferred from the NJ bodega to terror cells in Mexico.
Kinda makes Trump’s idea of a food box make even more sense.
This is the type of “opportunity” many “immigrants” are
pursuing for their version of the American dream.
Come on, Secretary Sonny! Shut ‘em down!
A senior official for the Islamic State used phony eBay deals to funnel money to an operative living in the US, according to an unsealed FBI affidavit.
The alleged US operative, Maryland-based Mohamed Elshinawy, was charged with attempting to support ISIS in December 2015. Federal agents believed he was selling computer printers on eBay as a front for receiving funds via PayPal from the terrorist organization, the Wall Street Journal reports. The funds allegedly came from Siful Sujan, who was killed in a 2015 drone attack. The $8,700 Elshinawy received from Sujan was allegedly intended to help fund a terrorist attack.
Elshinawy was convicted after investigators reviewed his Western Union and PayPal records. Investigators subpoenaed eBay, which provided Elshinawys account and transaction information.
The affidavit shows that $1,200 of the funds came through Elshinawys eBay scheme. Federal agents believed that much of the $8,700 Elshinawy received from ISIS through multiple means was used to purchase a laptop, calling cards, a private VPN networks, and a hotspotall of which were apparently used to communicate with ISIS. Elshinawy told officials he did not plan on using the money for an attack, but rather, wanted to take money from thieves and spend it on furniture. But the agent who wrote the affidavit said this was probably a cover story.
A spokesperson for PayPal told Gizmodo it is working with law enforcement on this investigation and that the company proactively reports any suspicious activities, investing significant time and resources into our vigilant efforts to prevent terrorist activity on the PayPal platform.
Ebay sent Gizmodo the statement it had given other outlets, saying the company has zero tolerance for criminal activity on our marketplace and we worked with law enforcement to bring this individual to justice.
Elshinawy claimed that he was not advised on how he should use the money to stage an attack on US soil, but was given the then-recent Draw Muhammed Contest shooting in Texas as an example.
Update 1:20 pm: Ebay responded to the Wall Street Journal article with this statement:
Ebay fully cooperated with law enforcement. Fox News was very strong in defending Ebay's position and cooperation on TV! [Wall Street Journal 8/11/17]
http://gizmodo.com/the-fbi-says-isis-used-phony-ebay-listings-to-funnel-ca-1797750099
In 1972, Dr. Barton Deloach and Sam Logan published reports at UC Davis and funded by the USDA with statistics showing the fraud. The USDA deep sixed the study.
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