Your tax dollars:
This is another food stamp fraud case that I don’t believe is connected to immigrants but it’s the second story I’ve seen lately (the first is here) about the authorities going after the sellers of the government assistance.
From KMOV-TV in St. Louis, MO*:
Police found 60 Missouri Electronic Benefit Transfer cards, usually used in place of food stamps. Detectives say the accused dealer accepted the government aide in instead of cash. [He knew they were just as good as cash at some local convenience store—ed]
A handful of SecuritE Cards, with child support payments loaded onto them…
[….]
The discovery of government-issued debit cards is kicking off a seperate fraud investigation as authorities begin to track down the people who traded government aide for drugs.
“We have names of the persons the cards were issued to and that information is being turned over to a state agency,” said Wellston Police Chief George Walker.
Fox News has a storyon this too, here.
* St. Louis has just been dubbed the crime capital of the US taking the honors from Camden, NJ here (last year’s winner).