Posted on 12/02/2015 5:10:23 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
Two city workers exploited flaws in the city’s welfare system to swipe $2.1 million worth of food stamps and rental subsidies — and then spent $120,000 on Red Bull, authorities said Tuesday.
Petronila Peralta of The Bronx and Cherrise Watson-Jackson of Queens — both longtime employees of the Human Resources Administration — were charged with fraud, along with 11 co-conspirators who allegedly helped carry out the scam between 2008 and 2013.
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They work for the city and felt they deserved more bennies. Typical Gov employees.
It just shows how dedicated and over-worked our local government workers are. They have so much work to do, with so few resources, they must steal Red-Bull to have enough energy to do their jobs. When are we going to give our heroic government employees enough resources to do their jobs properly?
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When sinecure is not enough...
I think I would have had more respect for them if they had bought Fruit Loops and Lucky Charms instead.
I think I would have had more respect for them if they had bought Fruit Loops and Lucky Charms instead.
$120,000 on Red Bull? Must have a hell of a caffeine buzz.
The one to the left got such a buzz she set herself on fire
sorry right
The real tragedy is that you can use taxpayer money, in the form of food stamp/EBT cards, to purchase an energy drink or a pretty much any other junk food you wanted.
The say the program is supposed to meet the basic nutritional needs of the impoverished. Huh?
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