Criminals Stealing Taxpayer Funded Benefits

[From article]

Are there any criminals left out there who aren’t on welfare?
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Just ask Vida Ofori Causey of Worcester. She was charged in federal court Monday with stealing “approximately $3,638,900.88 in fraudulent EBT transactions and SNAP benefits” between 2010 and 2014 at her convenience store on Main Street in Worcester. The J&W Aseda Plaza on Main Street was apparently a very convenient place for Obama voters to use their EBT cards to get 50 cents on the dollar.[. . .]



Here’s a story of some other recent “leakage,” in Manchester, N.H.
This one involves one Jeanette Hardy, 24, who came to the attention of authorities last June after she was shot in the hand during a home invasion by “an unknown African-American male.” She told police she was a “dancer,” but the forfeiture complaint filed by the feds notes that “she hasn’t reported any of her earnings to the IRS.”
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The cops got a search warrant and soon turned up all sorts of “brown” drugs in her apartment, according to court documents. The most shocking discovery they made, however, was that she was actually married, to a convicted drug dealer in state prison named Zakee Stuart-Holt.
The police discovered that Zakee had rented safe deposit box #000061001839 at the Bank of America in downtown Manchester last March.
Let’s go to the feds’ forfeiture complaint: “Stuart-Holt provided the bank with his NH EBT (Food Stamp) card and NH Driver’s License to show proof of identification … his only legitimate sources of deposits are SSI checks from the government.”
Inside the safe deposit box rented by the EBT card holder on SSI, the cops found $560,050 in cash, or as the exotic dancer put it, “nothing of significance.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2015/09/carr_a_few_more_ebt_anecdotes

Carr: A few more EBT 'anecdotes'
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
By: Howie Carr

Boston Herald