…..just doing it for the children. And, what do you know! they are all named Mohammed!
This is so funny, Baron at Gates of Vienna writing in a post entitled, “Culturally enriched food stamp fraud” refers to a story about a Somali Muslim immigrant food stamp scam having a “Mohammed coeficient” of 100% because LOL! everyone involved is named Mohammed (or a variation of the spelling of the name of their prophet).*
Read Gates of Vienna’s special in “The International Cultural Enrichment News!” where Baron Bodissey has more revelations about a food stamp scam from Michigan that we first reported here last month. Such a good Dad! And, isn’t diversity just grand! Read the whole story at Gates of Vienna.
Another Mohammad fraudster!
Coincidentally, just in time for Fathers Day, we have news from O’Fallon, Illinois about another Mohammad (and such a good Dad) going to jail for food stamp fraud too—this one totaling $1.5 million dollars. This Mohammad is Jordanian and he is worried about his family if he gets deported after serving a measly two years in jail.
From the News Democrat:
An O’Fallon man who managed a Washington Park convenience store will serve two years and nine months in prison for a food-stamps-for-cash scam that cost the government $1.5 million.
Rami Mohammad, 33, a Jordanian citizen who entered the United States in 2004, received the sentence Thursday in federal court in East St. Louis. Mohammad was the manager of the Quick Stop store in Washington Park.
After receiving reports about the store being involved in food-stamp fraud, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Inspector General began an undercover investigation.
The investigation showed that people were going into the store and conducting transactions with food stamps — which involves the use of a card similar to a credit card or debit card, rather than actual paper stamps — but the customers weren’t carrying any groceries when they exited the store.
Mohammad told agents he was accepting prepayment for items that he had to specially order. But he was caught on audio and video engaging in a cash-back scheme in which Mohammad took the value from people’s food-stamp cards and gave them smaller amounts of cash in return.
Steve Wigginton, U.S. attorney for the southern district of Illinois, said the food-stamp program was defrauded of more than $1.5 million.
He will only do two years in jail and then possibly be deported. He will be ordered to pay restitution but he likely has long ago spent the money, or even more likely he sent your tax dollars out of the country (so many food stamp scammers are found to have done this!).
The court also ordered Mohammad to pay restitution, though it was unclear whether he’ll be able to make any repayment. In addition, the court informed Mohammad that he’ll likely be deported after he finishes his sentence.
But, waahhhhh!, don’t send us back to Jordan! There is lousy health care in Jordan and the schools stink too!
Mohammad’s wife testified at his sentencing Thursday, saying she doesn’t want him to be deported because health care isn’t as good in Jordan as it is in the United States, and their children would have to go to inferior schools in Jordan. [OMG-ed]
Happy Fathers Day!
* Here is one post from 2009 where I noted the common thread in the scams—Mohammads are everywhere in these stories! After all, we are infidels and in Islam it’s just hunky-dory to rip off infidels. Type ‘food stamp fraud’ into our search function for dozens more stories like this one!