EXCERPT......food-stamp fraud doesn’t stop w/ shipping food fraudulently bought w/ EBT cards. A Dominican illegally in the US colludes w/ Bronx grocers to ring up bogus $250 transactions with her EBT card. In exchange, the stores hand her $200 cash and pocket the rest. No goods are exchanged.....she sends the money to Santiago — except when she’s not spending it on liquor or other nonfood items.
“We do it all the time, and a lot of people do this,” the Dominican scammer said. “It’s a way of laundering money, but it’s easier because it’s free." (NOTE: "free" to them---paid for by taxpayers)
A man called Jean, a public-assistance cheat in Santiago, told The NY Post he has peddled welfare food in Santiago since getting deported from New York in 2010. A thirty-something Haitian national, he said his scamming sister in Queens uses her EBT card to purchase food before shipping it to him from Long Island City.
“Every other month, I receive the barrels from my sister in New York City,” he told The NY Post. “Whatever I don’t need, I sell. “My sister in the US illegally uses food stamps to buy most of the things she sends me,” Jean added. He says the barrels are filled with cereal, baby formula, juices, olive oil and canned soup. He said his sister uses Long Island City’s Santiago Cargo Express, where barrels full of food cost $100 to ship to the DR.
When The NY Post found Jean, he was lugging an empty barrel down the street and hoping to sell it to a friend for $35. Many Dominicans then use the containers to store water for their homes. (SOURCE: NY POST.com)