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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Money received by welfare recipients comes directly from the taxpayer. Free
for them, not for us. So, here’s a great look into what some people are
doing in order to cheat the system.
No doubt things like this happen all the time.
The solution? Well, throw more cash at the problem, of course!
From AL:
A couple of steaks shoplifted at a Gardendale Walmart three months ago
led to the biggest food stamp fraud investigation in Jefferson County’s
history, and launched 11 simultaneous raids this morning at convenience
stores countywide.
Led by the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, teams of law
enforcement officers met at 5 a.m. for a briefing and then fanned out across
the county beginning at 6:50 a.m. The officers and agents were armed with
242 arrest warrants and plans to arrest 17 suspects.
All 17 suspects were in custody by mid-morning, and investigators
already today have filed for forfeiture and condemnation of those 11 stores,
which totals more than $1 million in assets.
“This is huge for us,” said Jefferson County District Attorney Brandon
Falls.
The massive probe, dubbed Operation T-bone, targeted those they say have
been cheating the food stamp system to the tune of hundreds of thousands of
dollars and sending at least some of the profits via wire transfer to Yemen.
bAt the heart of the operation are Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT)
cards, a government-issued debit card that replaced food stamps. There are
more than 900,000 people who get government assistance through the EBT card
in Alabama each year, and they are allowed to use the cards for food, non-
alcoholic beverages, and other basic needs, mostly through the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
The investigation began in February when Gardendale police arrested a
man for shoplifting steaks and some other items at Walmart in that city.
When they interviewed the suspect, he said he was boosting the items to give
to two convenience stores, and he named the stores, authorities said.
All the red dots indicate which corner stores have been raided by the
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