This is another article on an immigrant-run convenience store getting in legal trouble for questionable practices involving food stamps. This guy, Jalal “Jimmy” Israil, has been dropped from the program and it doesn’t seem to be as big a deal as the multi-million dollar scams we have seen elsewhere, but the article in the North County Times had this bit of information I don’t want to lose.
Over the past 10 years, 8,045 retail stores nationwide were permanently disqualified for trafficking, Fox said. She said that in 2010, USDA conducted nearly 5,000 undercover investigations.
It looks like we can thank Obama for something—his administration seems to be going after this food stamp fraud epidemic.