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Topic: Store Owner Sentenced In
$612,000 Food Stamp Fraud |
Store Owner Sentenced In
$612,000 Food Stamp Fraud
WWJ-TV [Detroit, MI] *, by Staff
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Original Article
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Posted By:Scottyboy, 1/12/2013 4:23:24 PM
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| FLINT - A federal judge has sentenced a Flint store owner to four years, three months in prison for participating in a $612,000 food stamp fraud scheme. (Snip) McQuade says Fofana, the owner of Mandingo African Market, redeemed more than $750,000 in food stamp benefits from February 2009 to July 2011, approximately $612,000 of which was obtained utilizing fraudulent “food stamps-for-cash” exchanges. State officials calculated that during that same time period, Mandingo’s average food stamp redemption amount was $26,798 per month — compared to an average of $5,479 monthly redemption for
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Comments:
Spreading our wealth around. .
*[Associated Press]
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mitzi, 1/12/2013 4:28:02 PM (No. 9113098)
Fofana from the Mandingo African Market?
Rather exotic sounding ... I can hear the drums in the background ...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
thewarden, 1/12/2013 4:28:58 PM (No. 9113100)
Color me shocked.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bamapreacher, 1/12/2013 4:29:03 PM (No. 9113101)
It´s good that they caught this enabler, but it´s too bad they couldn´t catch all the parasites making the deals with him. The government should set up a few stings in Detroit but they won´t. They would catch too many democratic voters with Obama phones.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
neanderthal, 1/12/2013 4:41:04 PM (No. 9113115)
I´m really getting tired of paying for all this larceny that this government is promoting.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bighambone, 1/12/2013 5:18:38 PM (No. 9113161)
They know who are the food stamp recipients are from the card numbers that this guy fraudulently submitted to cash out. It´s been 50 cents on the dollar now for a very long time. It´s easy for them to figure out how much of their food stamp card allowance each one of those food stamp recipients sold. It´s too much hassle for them to prosecute 1,000 or so Obama phone holders, so they just prosecute the main perpetrators included in the conspiracy indictment. That keeps this charade going, and they are probably already working on the next case with new perpetrators, and a lot of the same old food stamp recipients making money off their food stamp cards knowing they will never be prosecuted.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jj1319, 1/12/2013 5:27:43 PM (No. 9113169)
Those crazy Asians are at it again.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Coy860, 1/12/2013 5:30:52 PM (No. 9113170)
And this is only ONE store ! This is going on in all 50 states.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 1/12/2013 6:06:39 PM (No. 9113198)
He doesn´t bother me as much as the people who sell their stamps.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
uno, 1/12/2013 6:44:28 PM (No. 9113239)
Mandingo African Market...otherwise known as clue No 1
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
realrep, 1/12/2013 6:49:34 PM (No. 9113244)
Many years ago, I worked at an Aldi Food Store. A lady wanted to use food stamps to buy a fry pan. She could not understand that I said ´no.´
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 1/12/2013 7:05:28 PM (No. 9113259)
As #5 noted, this is happening in every city - and it is not a coincidence that there is a rapper who calls himself 50 cent.
That´s a big joke in the ghetto...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
6079 Smith, W, 1/12/2013 7:48:58 PM (No. 9113294)
What about the government fraud with the whole program? As well as all the other programs?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/12/2013 8:46:23 PM (No. 9113331)
What about the customers using his store ?
What about the thousands of other stores doing the same thing ?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Barkingkangaroo, 1/12/2013 9:19:50 PM (No. 9113362)
Racist. Poor business owner being hassled just because he´s black. Good thing Eric Holder will drop the charges because he´s not interested in prosecuting blacks.(?)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
veritas, 1/12/2013 10:34:32 PM (No. 9113438)
A trillion-dollar coin, a $612,000 food stamp -- looks to me like inflation is outta control!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 1/13/2013 12:58:40 AM (No. 9113517)
It be only taxpayers´ money, fo´ shizzle.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 1/13/2013 3:32:56 AM (No. 9113558)
The sentence is a disgrace too. The four years, three months will be pared down to less than half that once the lawyers finish up.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
provide, 1/13/2013 5:55:56 AM (No. 9113614)
Isn´t Flint the home of Michael Moore?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
freightdog, 1/13/2013 12:22:42 PM (No. 9114215)
Any chance that the thief will repay what he stole?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
tanker, 1/13/2013 8:01:25 PM (No. 9114768)
Why such a short sentence, that comes to $125,00 ayear plus now he has free health care
exercise yards and a lot of "bro´s" to teach him new scams. Prison will be a finishing school for him.
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