Pioneer Supermarket, Brooklyn, sells plastic barrels
used to ship EBT foods to family members
to sell in the Dominican Republic. / pic by J.C. Rice
NY Post’s July 28 exposé found food bought w/ EBT cards was being shipped to the Dominican Republic where the food is sold on the black market.
NY state Repub Sen. Tom Libous has twice passed welfare-reform bills that die in the Dem-controlled Assembly. Obama ordered New York state prohibit EBT cards usage inside strip clubs, liquor stores and casinos before Feb 2014 or take a $120-million cut in next year’s federal aid-----the US budgets $80-billion for its food-stamp program.
Vote-crazed Assembly Dems----scared of losing latino votes---say they'd rather restrict welfare cash via agency regs. But those regs haven’t materialized.
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The EBT food-stamp fraudsters have other tricks----Bronx grocers ring up bogus $250 transactions with the fraudster's EBT card. In exchange, the stores hand her $200 cash and pocket the rest.
No goods are exchanged.
Instead, the thieving EBT card-holder sends the money to the Dominican Republic — minus what she's spending on liquor or other nonfood items.
“We do it all the time, and a lot of people do this,” the scammer told the NY Post reporter. “It’s a way of laundering money, but it’s easier because it’s free.”
(NOTE "free" to scammers---b/c taxpayers pay the freight for the outrageous scam.)
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The scammers are clearly falsifying official US govt documents to get EBT cards. That incurs multiple crimes----and several felonies----forgery could be involved.
"JUST HERE FOR A BETTER LIFE" HAS TRANS-MONGRIFIED INTO "GIMMEGIMMEEGIMMEE--OR ELSE."
There needs to be investigations on several fronts. Taxpayers demand to know the full extent of US dollars being drained from our economy into Third World hellholes----including US foreign aid, food stamp foreign aid, wire transfers of EITC SS, SSI, UI, welfare checks, etc.
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Dominican travel brochures reveal it is a playland for US pols and rock stars who frequent its posh resorts---where underage prostitution thrives.
BUT the recent travel brochures reveal corrupt govt provides no safety nets for its impoverished citizenry----the govt relies on the BILLION dollars per year its citizens living here illegally send back home.
LYING IN WAIT FOR OUR TAX DOLLARS---THESE IMPOVERISHED COUNTRIES CURRENTLY HAVE ORGANIZED PRESSURE GROUPS INSIDE THE US (here illegally): Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico (stateside)l Salvador, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela.