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Massachusetts woman pleads guilty to $3.6 million food stamp fraud scheme
Hot Air ^ | 10/7/15 | Kristina Ribali

Posted on 10/07/2015 4:29:18 PM PDT by markomalley

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1 posted on 10/07/2015 4:29:18 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley
"they could then use that cash to buy restricted items, or even illegal drugs, as The Daily Caller pointed out.

but not a gun...
2 posted on 10/07/2015 4:33:05 PM PDT by stylin19a (obama = Fredo Smart)
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To: markomalley

Why is this even news? What she did is Common Place all over the greater Los Angeles area, I can show you at least a dozen businesses in Pacoima alone that do this ALL DAY LONG.

What this really means is, she Refused to Pay the Bribe Money to the powers that be.


3 posted on 10/07/2015 4:33:16 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: markomalley

No need to look.

Oh, and she’s an immigrant to our shores.


4 posted on 10/07/2015 4:34:00 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: markomalley

Massachusetts. Democrat.


5 posted on 10/07/2015 4:36:17 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: markomalley

The real problem lies with state Governors. If they would say no to every federal program that dangles cash in front of their eyes, none of this crap would be happening.


6 posted on 10/07/2015 4:37:36 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (I am going to get those guns out of peoples hands. - Hillary Clinton 10/05/2015)
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To: markomalley

20 dollar a week care packages.

Rice, Beans, Powdered Milk/Eggs, MREs, vitamins.

End the corruption overnight. Do away with EBT and Foodstamps and implement a survival care package system. Use the post office that we are paying out the nose for to deliver and also have pickup points.

Do it now.


7 posted on 10/07/2015 4:38:13 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: Steely Tom
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8 posted on 10/07/2015 4:38:25 PM PDT by smartyaz
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To: markomalley
she's from GHANA:


9 posted on 10/07/2015 4:38:36 PM PDT by gaijin
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10 posted on 10/07/2015 4:39:15 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: markomalley

Look, this simply does not ever happen. The left said so.


11 posted on 10/07/2015 4:39:39 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The real problem is mega corps like Wal*Mart and little businesses like Mom & Pop and all the politicians they buy. These people are making a mint off our children’s future.


12 posted on 10/07/2015 4:39:44 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: stylin19a
As I undrstand it ...

A SNAP recipient with say, $300 "on account" would sell her card to Causey for, sayyyy ... $200 cash, which the SNAPper could go and do whatever they wanted ... they had cash

I'm assuming then Causey used the card legitimately for food items and whatevers (maybe even re-selling what she just bought)

13 posted on 10/07/2015 4:40:28 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: markomalley

Vida Ofori Causey - An immigrant as well

14 posted on 10/07/2015 4:41:04 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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This is the direct result of not having each town distribute welfare as it originally was set up....towns watch their bottom line rather than the grifter’s and leech employees shuffling paperwork in D.C.


15 posted on 10/07/2015 4:41:53 PM PDT by mythenjoseph (Separation of powers)
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To: eyeamok
What this really means is, she Refused to Pay the Bribe Money to the powers that be.

Yep. Sometimes you've got to "make an example" of someone so others will toe the line.

16 posted on 10/07/2015 4:43:17 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: Menehune56

Three and a half million in just 4 years OMG!!!! what in the hell am I doing working for a living!!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!


17 posted on 10/07/2015 4:43:34 PM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: markomalley

All those folks who sold their precious food stamps at a discount obviously did not need them for food.


18 posted on 10/07/2015 4:44:30 PM PDT by all the best
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To: knarf
It appears she got cold hard cash deposited into her account

Causey purchased the benefits at a discounted value of approximately fifty cents for every SNAP dollar,” according to a press release from the Department of Justice. “By so doing, Causey caused the USDA to electronically deposit into a bank account controlled by her the full face value of the SNAP benefits fraudulently obtained.”

19 posted on 10/07/2015 4:46:04 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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OK ... that's a little more sophisticated than what I imagined

They want to close a gun store and the manufacturer when a gun crime occurs ... has the bank been indicted yet ?

20 posted on 10/07/2015 4:51:40 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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