Store owner convicted in $612,000 food stamp fraud (Foodstamps-For-Cash)

Ventra County Star ^ | 8-21-12 | AP

[tcrlaf]

FLINT, Mich. (AP) - A federal jury has reached a guilty verdict against a Flint store owner accused of participating in a $612,000 food stamp fraud scheme.

U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade says 55-year-old Noha Fofana was convicted of conspiracy to commit food stamp fraud.

Fofana owns Mandingo African market. McQuade says he redeemed $750,000 in food stamp benefits from February 2009 to July 2011, and $612,000 came from "food stamps-for-cash" exchanges.

[tcrlaf]

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

This is just one small convenience store, in one small city. Just imagine what the numbers run in to, across America.

OH WAIT... If I note this inconvenient truth, someone in the mainstream media is going to tell me I'm a RASSIS!, that i'm a 'phobe, or that I want children to starve, right?

[RexBeach]

The Mandingo African Market.

Charming.

I’m sure Noha meant Noharm.

OMG.

[Michigan Bowhunter]

Mandingo. Somehow, that sounds like a persons porn star name.

[Osage Orange]

What’s a “bridge card”?

[Tupelo]

Noha Fofana owner of the Mandingo Market.
Noha Fofana.
Noha Fofana?
Noha Fofana!

Folks, you can’t make this stuff up.

[sport]

He must have forgotten to pay his bribe.

[RexBeach]

His name reminds me of the “Name Game” song.

[jimmyo57]

Maybe he’s related to Lola Falana!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Noha Noha Fo-fana
Banana Rama Bo-bana
Me my mo-mana
Fo-fana

[wtc911]

Lola Falana...one really good looking girl. MS did her in iirc.

[Uncle Miltie]

And he’s the “Registered Agent” of an Islamic Center!

What ARE the odds?

Masjid-il Mustakeem
1202 N Ballenger Hwy,
Flint, MI 48504, USA
Email: noahfof@yahoo.com

FORMATION

Universal ID

MI-70466E

Name

MASJID’IL MUSTAKEEM

Registration Number

70466E

Type

CORP

Kind

Domestic Nonprofit Corpor

Status

ACTIVE

Formation Date

2008-11-13

REGISTERED AGENT

Name

NOHA FOFANA

Registered Office Address

1202 BALLENGER HWY FLINT MI 48504

http://www.islamicfinder.org/getitWorld.php?id=95410&lang=

http://businessprofiles.com/details/masjid-il-mustakeem/MI-70466E

[Revolting cat!]

Give away free money and they’ll come, buster!

[Revolting cat!]

Give away free money and they’ll come, buster!

[Buckeye McFrog]

I was gonna guess MLK near Pierson Road, or
S. Saginaw at Dort Highway.

[Uncle Miltie]

See my post above.

I’m thinking Foodstamp Fraud + Islamic Center = Terrorism Funding.

What do you think? Should we sic someone on this?

[Uncle Miltie]

(Of course the NSA is likely to snarf this up and check it out just based on the post! Ha!)

[MrB]

I’ve related this story before, but it is so apropos to reveal the mindset of the average sheeperal.

I was talking with my libinlaw and remarked how Thomas Sowell had said that, with regard to government programs, liberals will allow all the fraud and abuse that happens as long as everyone who needs the program can use it.

My lib-in-law was indignant! We do TOO care about fraud!
(2 second pause)
But it’s more important that everyone that needs help gets it.
...
uh... That’s just what I said.
...
Let me think about it a minute... It just sounded so mean when you said it.

[Uncle Miltie]

PPS - Called the U.S. Attorney’s Office and left a message accordingly.

[Nachum]

It is something to watch. Have to connect this to others.

[grumpygresh]

“Witnesses say Fofana and others would obtain Michigan bridge cards or bridge card numbers from recipients and call the numbers into the store.”

This is a stupid criminal story. Conspiracies never work when multiple (as in 3 or more) parties are involved. Someone will always squak when they don’t feel that they are getting their fair share.