I was pleased to see this story at World Net Daily where reporters have started connecting the dots on the massive food stamp fraud going on in small town and big city America. We’ve been following immigrant food stamp fraud (large money transfers, not little issues of someone buying junk food on stamps) for years. If you use our search function for ‘food stamp fraud’ you will see dozens of posts from every corner of America on the topic.
This story is different in that it begins to show how large a problem this is, especially when it is believed that we are ‘redistributing wealth’ to terrorists.
From World Net Daily:
Federal agents have raided several convenience stores and a mosque in tiny Henderson, N.C., while arresting at least two Muslim men in connection with the raid.
Authorities suspect the stores were operating a so-called hawala money-transfer network supporting terrorist activities in Yemen, including al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, WND has learned. AQAP’s leaders include fugitive al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been linked to 10 major terror plots in the past year alone.
Mohamed Mohamed Nagi, 33, and Abdullah Ahmed Almuwallad, 32, have been charged with food stamp fraud. Additionally, Almuwallad has been charged with transporting stolen cigarettes and possession of the illegal stimulant cathinone, more commonly known a khat. Khat is popular in many countries of the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa, but in Yemen it’s a full-blown national addiction.
FBI agents have had both men under surveillance for several months. Federal, state and local law enforcement agents on Thursday searched four stores in Henderson, located about 40 miles north of Raleigh, N.C., including the stores where Nagi and Almuwallad worked. Agents converged on the targets using a helicopter and unmarked cars.
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Investigators suspect proceeds from cigarette smuggling and food stamp irregularities have been laundered through the Henderson stores to terror front groups in Yemen.
Somalis again!
The Somali community also has been the subject of federal investigations into terrorist money-laundering involving food stamps.
Federal agents suspect Somali refugees have funneled millions of dollars from food-stamp fraud and drug sales through Somali grocery stores into overseas bank accounts used by al-Qaida.
CAIR has defended the Somali store owners against the allegations, even meeting with the head of the civil-rights unit of the USDA to complain about the agency’s food-stamp investigations, which it argues are “causing enormous harm to the owners and the Somali community,” reveals a confidential CAIR memo published in the book, “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America.“