Longtime readers know we follow food stamp fraud busts as a side interest here at RRW—specifically busts involving convenience stores run by immigrants (which is most of them!). Here is an indictment from last week in Illinois, but surprisingly this US Attorney’s Office press release is devoid of one of the major items we normally … Continue reading More food stamp fraud busts, and SD paper wants data on convenience stores

Update September 18th:  Drudge is reporting a story that says a record 23,116,928 American households are on food stamps.  I’ll bet a good many of those people have figured out how to get cash out of them through trafficking in stores like these. This one is getting closer to home for me!  I was first … Continue reading Busted in Baltimore: food stamp fraud in the millions of dollars!

Since RRW isn’t really about food stamp fraud (although it’s become a side interest of mine especially as it relates to immigrants as the perps), here are three quick mentions of the latest scams found in my alerts. For my critics who say I purposefully pick out immigrant fraud cases, I’ve thrown in the rare … Continue reading Food stamp fraud round-up