An Ohio man is in hot water with authorities for allegedly running a $2.7 million food stamp fraud scheme alongside an illegal slaughterhouse – all out of his own home.
Authorities charged Amin M. Salem, 59, of Westlake, with food stamp fraud, laundering money, operating an unregulated slaughterhouse, and improper possession of firearms for running a $2.7 million food stamp fraud scheme at several gas stations he owned in the Cleveland area between 2010 and 2016, according to a statement from the Department of Justice.
Investigators say Salem used the illegal terminals inside his gas stations to process fraudulent Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in his son’s name since he could not operate stores that administer SNAP benefits due to previous convictions of food stamp fraud.
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6 comments:
Imagine that a Muslim running an illegal food stamp scheme....wonder if he sold cigarettes also with no tax stamp?
Another Muslim
This is why you will always see multiple registers in small quick serve and gas stations. One is for the 'legal' transactions and the others or for the sales and transactions they don't want to report. If a register is ringing up sales which are not reported to the federal and state government that is a huge bonus in federal and state taxes.
The names involved in these crimes are always the same. And the owners of these businesses always think our government is stupid for expecting voluntary compliance with the law. Whether its cigarette taxes, sales taxes, or food stamps, they just ignore the law and pocket the money. What they don't spend to fund their purchases of luxury cars and houses for them and their kin, the rest goes to fund their favorite "charities" overseas (think terrorist organizations, the organizations are a charity to them).
January 27, 2019 at 1:42 PM;
I have been in more than one Chinese food carry out restaurant than never enters a cash sale on the register. They just make change from an open drawer. Tax evasion right in front of you! Come on Maryland Comptroller, get with it. It's too easy to catch these guys.
For years, I watched Thrasher's in OC ring up those over-priced french fries on an old push-the-keys-down antique cash register. You know what key they always pushed down for every sale to open the till and make change? You probably guessed it, "NO SALE." So obvious it was pathetic. Millions of dollars in sales was recorded as "NO SALE" every summer, until they got new automated cash registers (I guess they didn't trust the help anymore).
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