Abdulmalik Abdulla, 37, and Ahmed Mohssen, 53, were arrested Friday on federal charges of conspiracy to commit food stamp and wire fraud, according to a release from the Office of U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland.
"Retailers who trade food stamp credits for cash are on notice that federal authorities are on their trail," U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said in a release. "Taxpayers fund the program to provide food for needy recipients, not to turn retail store cash registers into ATM machines."
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Happens all the time. Remember Maryland State Senator Tommie Broadwater? His family ran a small grocery store in Prince Georges County and he ended up going to jail for the same thing.
ReplyDeleteAt least he was keeping the money 7:48.
ReplyDeleteThese guys are probably funding Al Quaeda!
I thought Obamas face was going to be put on the food stamp? Was that a joke or still in the works?
ReplyDeleteYou know, reader, for sure, that these are just two of thousands of food stamp frauds in this state.
ReplyDeletePuff out your chest, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, for arresting and maybe indicting these two and making them today's poster children for a billion dollar problem you have no hope to ever control.
P.S. - Make the bails astronomically high, 'cause these guys are serious flight risks.
And a worldwide background check wouldn't be a bad idea, either, just in case we have a terrorist cell or zany Muslim sect connection to consider.
I find their names interesting. Are they converts, or natural muslins?
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