Posted on 07/26/2025 6:11:34 PM PDT by bitt
The CEO of a company that benefited immensely from the Lifeline program, commonly referred to as ‘Obama phones’ during the Obama administration, has been sentenced to five years in prison and, along with his company, ordered to pay $128 million in fines.
Issa Asad, 51, of Southwest Ranches, FL, and his company, Q Link Wireless, were sentenced for a years-long scheme to steal over $100 million from the ‘Obama phone’ program dating back to 2012. Asad was also sentenced over charges of money laundering.
Between 2013 and 2019, Q Link Wireless made $618,736,494 from the Lifeline program. According to the Federal Register, “approximately 21 percent of Q Link’s payments during this period were due to its fraudulent scheme.”
From 2012 through at least 2021, “Q Link, directed by Asad, cheated the Lifeline program by making repeated false claims for reimbursement, taking and retaining Lifeline funds that it was not entitled to receiver, providing false information about its Lifeline customers, and deceiving the FCC about its compliance with program rules,” according to a press release from the DOJ’s Southern District of Florida.
Asad engaged in “multiple tricks” that were intended to mislead the FCC regarding how many users were actually using Q Link’s ‘Obama Phones’ while preventing customers who didn’t want the phones from ending their relationship with the program. This enabled Q Link to continue billing the Lifeline program despite having unwilling customers.
One of the tricks utilized by Q Link was an automatic script that was played for customers that said:
“Hello, your Medicaid, Food Stamp and Lifeline benefits are about to get cancelled. To avoid cancellation of these benefits, press 1 now to indicate that you wish to remain enrolled in these government programs. Press 2 if you wish to speak to a representative about your government benefits. To opt out of any future calls, press 3.”
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Lotta moola to be made from the puur.
Did obama get his 10%?
Since Biden was VP maybe he got the cut.
It seems there is end to the fraud, waste, and abuse perpetrated against the American tax paying citizens as democrats try to increase their voter base.
Should have been “no end”.
RE: defrauding US government, money laundering.
Dem: You mean that’s illegal now? Who knew? Does it help if everybody’s doing it?
Who’d a thunk!?
Name translation in Arabic...
Issa = Jesus
Asad = Lion.
Another fraud perpetrated by Obama and his friends. When O said he wanted to fundamentally change America, he didn’t mean to be kinder and gentler.
Asad was born in Dearborn, Michigan to a Palestinian family and raised in Michigan, New Mexico, Dallas, New York City, and Miami with 12 younger siblings.
Well now he can add the federal pound em in the ass as his latest residence.
5 years (only 2.5 years with good behavior?) sounds like a deal most people would make for those millions.
Are they trying to flip the guy?
The government officials who used and abused the program should be jailed too.
Obamaphones were not just given to poor or homeless people. The agencies who gave them out also gave the numbers to the democrat party, who then used text messages around election day to spread misinformation against their opponents and to force voter turnout.
It was a massive political operation.
that’s a lot of jihadis on US taxpayers
kinda like Somalis
Obama helped a fellow Muslim??
I gotta wonder just how much this fella was able o retain. If greater than $20,000,000, well, 5 years is a picnic.
Which is how they think. I say, bring back the gallows and make sure the only reward for such activity is to hang until sunset!!
Issa Asad, 51, of Southwest Ranches, FL, and his company, Q Link Wireless, were sentenced for a years-long scheme to steal over $100 million from the ‘Obama phone’ program dating back to 2012. Asad was also sentenced over charges of money laundering.
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so, how much of that $100MM was laundered back to hussein & the other crooked pols?
if the obama phone racket admitted to ripping off $100MM from US taxpayers, how much do you think obama care ripped off?
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