A New Jersey man is facing up to five years behind bars for running a nearly $3 million food stamp fraud operation at a Connecticut store.
Muhammad Shahbaz, 50, told investigators that he charged people who receive food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) double for items that were not allowed to be purchased with benefits at WB Trade Fair Grocery store in Waterbury, Connecticut, NJ.com reported.
He also allowed SNAP recipients to trade their benefits for cash at half price and ran the scheme with three other employees at the store.
Shahbaz is also related to the store’s owner.
During an 18-month period between 2015 and 2016, the store received $3.2 million in food stamp payments from customers, but authorities found the store should have received only between $180,000-$360,000 over that same time period.
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5 comments:
Notice it's always someone with a mid-eastern sounding name, never a Smith or Jones. Those Pieces of crap come here to purposely rip off or country and the honest American taxpayers. The penalties for such crimes should be long and very harsh, hard labor six days a week 12 hours a day for many years. But that will never happen because those idiot Democrats love them.
Another fine upstanding Muslim. Sure America, keep giving these people money to open convenience stores so they can profit millions and support ISIS.
I believe he had businesses in Salisbury at one time. If you look at their businesses and their are no customers, it doesn't take a genius to figure out they're ripping off the government. Dealt with these idiots for 32 years. Reported them to Comptroller for years. They did nothing.
They R.
Northwest Woodsman: Drives me crazy when the press identifies someone with an obvious middle eastern or Hispanic connection and at the very least, foreign ancestory, as a New Jersey Man or a Maryland Man!. They are no more a New Jersey Man than I am a Siberian Man!
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