Stores bought food stamps and vouchers off customers for steep discounts, redeemed from federal gov't for full amount
Federal prosecutors in Georgia announced indictments on Tuesday against 88 people in one of the country’s largest food-stamp fraud cases.
Fifty-four defendants were accused in an alleged scheme to open grocery stores in Georgia that would buy food stamps and cash vouchers at deep discounts, which the stores would then redeem with the federal government at full value.
The defendants also allegedly conspired to launder $18 million in profit from the plot.
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Really.. food stamp fraud, no way. ha!
ReplyDeleteBurn 'em good! It's not enough that we subsidize so many without good cause?
ReplyDeleteI'll even bet that our government even subsidized these foreign owned stores.
ReplyDeleteThey need to burn both the buyers and the sellers.....
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