[SmokingJoe]

As usual yet another African American stealing tax payer dollars.

[fwdude]

I’ll bet she goes by ‘meeka’ on the street.

[donozark]

Well, it show beats dealin’ crack!

[Skwor]

EBT = Ethnic Based Transactions

[OldHarbor]

Down on the corner
Out in the street
A hustler named Meeka
Her deals they can’t be beat

[Brian Griffin]

I suspect the gal had help and that she’s just the tip of an iceberg.

[mikey_hates_everything]

She’s only pissed because she, and none of her hundreds of street bodega competitors, got caught. Government incompetence is letting this happen.

[woweeitsme]

Has this story been reported before? It seems that I’ve seen that name and picture before. Of course, there are likely quite a few “Tamika Browns” out there.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

This sounds more like theft from other recipients than fraud on the government, but yeah. Those programs are ripe for abuse.

[dfwgator]

Looks the part.

[stevio]

I like my tapioca white.

[econjack]

We need a system where, if you draw ANY kind of assistance (e.g., welfare, SNAP, rent subsidies, Medicaid, etc), you show up every morning for work at 8AM at a gov’t building. You might wash windows, mop floors, clean toilets...whatever. You work until 5PM. If you don’t do this, no benefits. There will also be random drug testing. If they have to work anyway, I wonder how many would try to find a better-paying job?

[Ann Archy]

OMG!! The THIEF is BLACK!! SHOCKING!!

[Tom Tetroxide]

Have her work it off in prison until pays back every dime.

[Hammerhead]

I dint do nuffins!

[ronniesgal]

must be a set up!

[pacificus]

She’s just angry she didn’t know about the hospice and daycare somali frauds, and the CA Medi-Cal and EDD-IHSS, UI, DI fraud schemes.

She could have gone big time, and been a world class fraudster