Wouldn’t you think that eventually the word would get around to the food stamp fraudsters that their fellow scammers were being busted from coast to coast. Nevermind, I take that back, only if they happened to read RRW would they know because no one in the old media ever puts these stories together.
Today’s scam comes from the Post-Tribune in Gary, Indiana:
A Gary man will have to pay back almost $290,000 along with serving 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to food stamp fraud, according to court records.
Husein Kanakrieh was sentenced Wednesday in the U.S. District Court after pleading guilty last year to charges of lying on his income tax filings and abusing food stamps.
Kanakrieh ran a store, Jordan Foods, 4272 Georgia St., Gary, and would buy food stamps for less than their real value, according to his plea agreement. He would then redeem the stamps through his store for full value, the agreement said.
This last line is deceptive. He redeemed his stamps from the taxpayer!
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