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#1725091 - 12/10/11 07:15 AM
Re: THE UNFULFILLED PROMISE
[Re: TimJ]
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Registered: 09/05/04
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Woman Gets Jail For Food-Stamp Fraud; Wall Street Fraudsters Get BailoutsLast week, a federal judge in Mississippi sentenced a mother of two named Anita McLemore to three years in federal prison for lying on a government application in order to obtain food stamps. Apparently in this country you become ineligible to eat if you have a record of criminal drug offenses. States have the option of opting out of that federal ban, but Mississippi is not one of those states. Since McLemore had four drug convictions in her past, she was ineligible to receive food stamps, so she lied about her past in order to feed her two children. The total "cost" of her fraud was $4,367. She has paid the money back. But paying the money back was not enough for federal Judge Henry Wingate. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blo...ilouts-20111117 ...and grocery stores are forced to throw food away rather than donating it to food banks, as are the county, state and federal penal systems. liabilities are to high, they cant afford to possibly get someone sick who may not be eating, so they throw it away instead. Probably easier to fix that.
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