I guess it’s just another sign of the times. Congress and Obama are scamming the taxpayer, so what the heck, “refugees” can scam nuns. It’s a slippery slope. I told you this morning I had another hard-to-believe story today and this is it. Hat tip: Blulitespecial.
Actually this couple from Kenya weren’t really refugees, just pretending to be. From the Chicago Tribune:
A married Near North Side couple claiming to be Kenyan refugees whose lives were in danger managed to scam more than $800,000 from an order of Carmelite sisters in Wisconsin, federal agents allege.
Angela Purity Martin-Mulu, 35, and Edward Bosire, 39, also took nearly $20,000 from a Carmelite monastery in Des Plaines, according to an FBI affidavit filed in Milwaukee.
The two are being held in the federal lockup in Chicago on a mail fraud charge and are due in court in Chicago on Friday. They are awaiting a hearing on facing the charges in Milwaukee.
The husband-and-wife team posed as brother and sister, accepting meals, gas for their car, cash and other aid even though one Illinois bank account held by Martin-Mulu registered $582,831 in deposits from 2003 to 2008, according to the affidavit. At least $24,000 was spent in casinos.
Read the whole story.
“You feel like you’ve been stepped on,” said Mother Marie Andre, superior at the Carmelite monastery in Des Plaines.
Sister, we know just how you feel.