Illegal Alien Pleads Guilty To Food Stamp Fraud

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[matt04]

An illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic has pleaded guilty to allegations that he used straw owners to operate several grocery stores in Hartford that he used to defraud the federal food stamp program of about $1.6 million. Federal prosecutors say Apolinare Collado, who also used numerous aliases, allowed customers to exchange food stamps for cash and other products not eligible for purchase with the benefit between 2003 and 2009. The 43-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to one count of food stamp fraud. He faces up to 20 years in prison at sentencing scheduled for June 6. In 1998, Collado was previously sentenced to 18 months in prison and was later deported after he was convicted of food stamp fraud, tax fraud and immigration offenses. He had been detained since January 2009 for immigration violations.

[matt04]

Another law-abiding illegal immigrant just looking to make a honest living. Right?

[Evil Slayer]

And they want to give this guy and all the other illegals amnesty?

[Tennessee Nana]

PING

[Repeal The 17th]

Let’s see now...I guess I could...
...get set up to accept electronic EBT payments;
...buy me a couple of cases of canned corn;
...sell you a can of corn for $100;
...you pay for it with your EBT debit card;
...I give you $50 cash back under the table.
Sounds simple enough.
(if you think this isn’t going on, you don’t get out much.)

[kinghorse]

Noooo. Where will I get my street tacos?

The ultimate in double taxation.
1. Pay taxes to pay for food cards.
2. Pay taco vendor for tacos made with ingredients bought with food card.
3. Do Not Profit

[Bob]

It’s even worse than that. I saw a sticker on the ATM machine at the Gilroy, CA veterans building: “Try your EBT card here!”.

[Fireone]

“at sentencing scheduled for June 6.”

What’s the hold up? Sentence him today, and lock him up!

[dragnet2]

Apolinare Collado

Yet another U.S. government approved criminal immigrant.

[taillightchaser]

We don’t have enough jails to hold all the worthless, lazy, pukes that are ripping off the food stamp program.

[Repeal The 17th]

Some EBT cards will also carry a certain amount of “cash benefit” from various welfare programs the holder may be eligible for. Cash is cash, but the grocery portion of the benefit has to get converted somehow and has to involve an accomplice.

[Defend Liberty]

This is probably only the tip of the iceberg considering Hartford is a sanctuary city.

[HiTech RedNeck]

maybe to see if uncle sam will want to deport the bastard first. the cad escapes punishment that way, but at least the state saves on the cost of imprisoning him.

[Munz]

Bankruptcy  101...why Arizona did the right

thing!!

It's easy to dismiss individual programs that benefit non-citizens until they're put together and this picture emerges. Someone did a lot of research to put together all of this data. Often these programs are buried within other programs making them difficult to find. 

A Real Eye Opener ...  WHY is the USA BANKRUPT?
Informative, and mind boggling! 

You think the war in Iraq   was costing us too much?  Read this:
We have been hammered with the propaganda that it was the Iraq  war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.
I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.

I hope the following 14 reasons are  forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I also have included the URL's for verification of all the following  facts...

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify at: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8 <http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8>


2.  $22 Billion dollars a year is spent on foodassistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML <http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML>

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. 
Verify at: 
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML <http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML>

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they

cannot speak a word of English!

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt..0.HTML <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt..0.HTML>

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-bornchildren of illegal aliens, known as

anchor babies.
Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML>

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. 
Verify at: 
http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML <http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML>
http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML <http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML><http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML <http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML> > 


7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML>
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8.  $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML <http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML>


9.  $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressedAmerican wages are caused by the illegalaliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC RI  PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC%20RI%20PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML>

10.  The illegal aliens in the United States  have a crime rate that's two and a halftimes that of white non-illegal aliens.

In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the U.S. 
Verify  at: http://transcripts.cnn..com/TRANscriptS/0606/12/ldt..01.HTML <http://transcripts.cnn..com/TRANscriptS/0606/12/ldt..01.HTML>

11.  During the year of 2005, there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens thatcrossed our Southern Border, also,

as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and

marijuana, crossed into the US   from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security  Report:

12.  The National policy Institute estimated that the total cost of mass deportationwould be between $206 and $230 billion

or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.
Verify  at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute..org/PDF/deportation.PDF <http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute..org/PDF/deportationPDF>

13.  In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www/. <http://www/..rense.com/general75/niht.htm>  rense.com/general75/niht.htm <http://www/..rense.com/general75/niht.htm>

14.  The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States . 
Verify at: 
http: // www.drdsk.com/articleshtml <http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml>  
<<% 20w.drdsk.com/articleshtml <http://20w.drdsk.com/articleshtml>
The total cost is a whopping   $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME,

HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING  THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS $338,300,000,000.00 WHICH

WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OFTHIS COUNTRY. 

Are  we THAT Stupid? YES, FOR LETTING THOSE IN THE U.S. CONGRESS GET AWAY WITH LETTING THIS HAPPEN YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!!! 

[nascarnation]

When I clicked on this, I expected some Mexican caught heisting a couple grand.

This was an enterprising illegal, we’re talking millions.

[eyedigress]

Small towns in Arizona are pretty adept at it. 50c on the dollar.

[dalebert]

now multiply that by 8 million

[NorthStarStateConservative]

They don’t make tacos in the Dominican, they make cigars.

[org.whodat]

Just trying to get together enough money to get a new john deer with a hemi. Leave the poor man along, Juan McCain will get you.

[org.whodat]

Just trying to get together enough money to get a new john deer with a hemi. Leave the poor man along, Juan McCain will get you.

[Veggie Todd]

Just committing the crimes Americans won’t.