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Massive food stamp fraud uncovered(!?)
americanthinker.com ^ | 3/15/2018 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 03/15/2018 11:59:47 AM PDT by rktman

The very expensive ($70.9 billion in 2016) federal food stamp program (officially: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) is an open invitation to fraud. The latest indicator comes from Jacksonville, Florida.

News4Jax.com (Channel 4 in Jacksonville) reports:

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: ebtcards; foodstamps; foodstampsfraud; snap; wic
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To: riverrunner
How many times were we told those stories of fraud are just made up.

Of course it's made-up fraud.

Like medicare fraud, medicaid fraud, 0bamacare fraud, voter fraud, and on and on

21 posted on 03/15/2018 12:42:30 PM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

They did the same scam at me at Jack in the Box when some lowlife offered to use my EBT for food and I have to pay some dollar amount. Multiple times at different fast foods in the city.


22 posted on 03/15/2018 12:44:05 PM PDT by beergarden
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To: rktman

Nobody is surprised.


23 posted on 03/15/2018 12:47:00 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media deliberately and intentionally chooses to lie, with full awareness and knowledge.)
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To: rktman

24 posted on 03/15/2018 12:54:09 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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25 posted on 03/15/2018 12:54:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: rktman
I thought pointing out welfare fraud is racist. Because slavery. Or something.

26 posted on 03/15/2018 1:07:45 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: eyeamok

Soup kitchens would have much more nutritious than what junk people buy with their EBT cards, not to mention trading them for cash to buy drugs and guns.


27 posted on 03/15/2018 1:13:13 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: DannyTN

“Trump has the right approach to reducing food stamp usage. Make jobs available. And once jobs are plentiful, then start examining who is left on the program and why.”

Or instead of wasting money on an investigation, once there are plenty of jobs, just make the food stamp program only pay for very unappetizing food. If a few people still really want to scam the system to get free canned brussel sprouts and spam sandwiches, then I say forget it.


28 posted on 03/15/2018 1:18:24 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: All

Tampa Woman Drew Public Assistance After Collecting $396,000 Settlement, Feds Say

Tampa Bay Times ^ | Patty Ryan

FR Posted by Iron Munro

TAMPA — For 13 years, a mother getting public assistance swore under penalty of perjury that she had no income or assets. The public paid her rent, provided food money and covered her son under Medicaid — at a total cost of $85,363, according to court records.

Latashia Green failed to mention the $396,000 paid to her from a 2010 legal settlement, or the $10,000 a year she earned braiding hair, or the real estate she bought along the way, federal authorities allege.

Green, 37, is expected to plead guilty in U.S. District Court on Tuesday to theft of public assistance benefits, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. She has no prior criminal record in Florida.

She collected $34,800 in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development subsidies, $22,902 in U.S. Department of Agriculture food subsidies and $27,661 in Medicaid benefits, Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Riedel wrote recently.

“Ms. Green never reported this income to any of the agencies listed above and continued to falsely state on applications and recertifications that she had no income,” Riedel wrote.

Green, who declined an interview request, acquired money the unfortunate way.

Her mother, Marcella Staten, was killed in 2009 trying to cross Busch Boulevard on foot, Tampa police records show. The driver stopped. He wasn’t charged.

The next year in Hillsborough County Circuit Court, an attorney opened a probate case to distribute a private settlement payable to Staten’s estate. Green was the personal representative. She and two other family members were named as beneficiaries.

Green’s name also turned up on deeds for residential properties in Hillsborough and Pasco counties.

Instead of reporting a changed financial situation to public assistance agencies, Green sublet her subsidized housing unit to someone else for $550 a month, the prosecutor wrote.

The unit was costing HUD $909 per month in rent and a $100 utility stipend.

Green was benefitting from a housing voucher program commonly known as Section 8. The demand for the vouchers is so great that applicants are no longer accepted on a waiting list. The program is administered by the Tampa Housing Authority, which referred Green to HUD’s Office of Inspector General for prosecution in 2013.

Tampa Housing Authority spokeswoman Lillian Stringer credited the thorough efforts of Assisted Housing Director Margaret Jones.

“We take fraud prevention very seriously and we will vigorously pursue every individual case to the fullest extent,” Stringer said. “We’re hopeful by reporting these incidents, that will deter any other participants from engaging in fraudulent activity.”


29 posted on 03/15/2018 1:24:59 PM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: Boogieman
"Once there are plenty of jobs, just make the food stamp program only pay for very unappetizing food."

There are legitimate poor on that program.


30 posted on 03/15/2018 1:25:31 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: rktman

Like (this)

Not like(this)

/English lesson


31 posted on 03/15/2018 1:26:53 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: All

The New York Times Archives

Federal immigration raids on small groceries and other businesses in the predominantly Hispanic Washington Heights section of Manhattan are seizing large sums of cash and illegal weapons and causing widespread concern among shopkeepers and customers.

Officials of the Immigration and Naturalization Service said they have conducted more than two dozen raids in Washington Heights since January. They say the raids are part of the agency’s usual efforts directed at aliens suspected of illegal activities and have been carried out legally.

But the raids have touched a nerve in Upper Manhattan, particularly in Dominican neighborhoods. Community leaders say the nature of the raids has changed in the last few months, going beyond the mere search for illegal aliens.

A group of seven bodegas has complained that immigration inspectors have entered their shops without warrants, asked customers and employees for identity documents and seized large amounts of money, said Adriano Espaillat of the group called the Coalition for Community Concerns. The complaints have received wide attention in the Spanish-language press.

Several community leaders said the raids are causing mistrust of the Federal Government, hurting census efforts.

Frank E. Deale, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, denounced the raids as unconstitutional and the seizures of money as pure theft. After meeting last week with community representatives, he said the center would assess the legality of the raids.

‘’The I.N.S. has the obligation to come forward and explain what the raids are about because they are having a devastating chilling effect on our huge effort to have people come out and be counted,’’ said Councilman Stanley E. Michels of northern Manhattan.

The 8,000 or more groceries, called bodegas, play a vital role in the city’s fast-growing Latino community, serving as mom-and-pop stores, social clubs, banks and neighborhood exchanges. They habitually deal in cash - a good bodega can make $25,000 to $50,000 a week - and for this reason are often victims of holdups.

But police investigations in the last few years have found that some bodegas have been used by organized crime for drug trafficking, numbers games and money laundering.

Community leaders generally favor the raids on drug trafficking and other illegal activities. But they say they do not understand why the immigration service is involved in the raids and why immigration officials are asking for identification and confiscating money.

Charles Troy, an immigration service spokesman, said the investigation into illegal activities of aliens is within the service’s jurisdiction.

The raids have resulted in the discovery of 36 illegal aliens, 17 criminal arrests and 19 seizures of evidence like gambling receipts, narcotics and firearms, Mr. Troy said.


32 posted on 03/15/2018 1:34:53 PM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: DannyTN

you said: “There are legitimate poor on that program.”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I don’t see your point.
Even if true, does that mean it is a good program?
Or that we should leave it exactly like it is?


33 posted on 03/15/2018 1:43:03 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: DannyTN

While 115 may not seem like a lot to you- consider 150 -200 Jacksonville size cities/areas or more. Also this is not the only scam. I recall a few guys in AL taking me around to the crap games they ran. In short, they got the old food stamps for 50 cents or less. I could not believe it when one of the guys went to the best markets in the city and got filets, lobster tails, you name it. There are many more scams/addictions that SNAP cards are used for. Lottery tickets are big here.


34 posted on 03/15/2018 1:44:00 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Honest Nigerian

I’m all for eliminating fraud and waste.

But I’m totally against arbitrary cuts that hurt the legitimately poor who need that benefit.


35 posted on 03/15/2018 1:54:29 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

legitimately poor....The US has no “poor”.


36 posted on 03/15/2018 2:40:59 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: rktman
here is the truth...if you work hard, work honest, pay taxes and obey the laws YOU ARE A FOOL...

WE ARE FOOLS FOR PLAYING THIS GAME....maybe even stupid..

me...I don't really know how to cheat the govt....somedays, I wish I did...

37 posted on 03/15/2018 3:09:53 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Windflier
🤔. "Dude, I was 'like' blown away". 🍿🍻😹🇺🇸
38 posted on 03/15/2018 3:21:48 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: eyeamok

LOL! When the “able bodied” are forced to “work”, the libidiots will then want their own guns to stave off the looting, theft, crime, etc. I love it!!


39 posted on 03/15/2018 4:17:36 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: rktman

Bttt.

5.56mm


40 posted on 03/15/2018 4:24:33 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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