I’m going to have more later today (or tomorrow) on this story, but for readers who have followed RRW for years, you know this subject has been one of great interest to me. Convenience stores, gas stations and other ‘mom & pop’ grocery stores have been for YEARS ripping off the taxpayer by buying food stamps at ‘fifty cents on the dollar’—the store owner/manager gives the food stamp recipient often half the value of his/her benefit and then turns around and gets the full value from the federal government.
Some of these scams have netted the crooks hundreds of thousands of dollars.
If you search ‘food stamp fraud’ here at RRW you will see dozens and dozens of these stories—the large majority are stores owned and run by immigrants. In some cases the money they took from the taxpayers went to Muslim countries. Honestly, I think there is some training program abroad where they get the seed money, get into the US through treaty investor visas, and set up these fraudulent enterprises.
Here Rep. Daryl Issa tells Fox News about the scam (brought to light by real investigative reporters from Scripps Howard News Service). Issa will hold hearings in the House of Representatives this week.
Issa is wrong about one thing he said in that Fox News interview—he said its happening under this Administration, implying that somehow Obama’s people are turning a blind eye. Let me assure you it was on-going during the Bush Administration too and probably long before that.