(Conservative Tribune) – Welfare fraud has
become endemic in the United States over the past few decades. Just as it
seemed that we were making some progress against the deluge of entitlement
swindles, it’s become even worse under the Obama administration.
Between the Earned
Income Tax Credit being extended to illegal immigrants and
a millionaire collecting welfare, there’s no shortage of examples of
cheats defrauding the system. Now comes word that a Muslim-run food stamp ring
has been broken up in the state with the largest Muslim population.
That state is
Michigan, which has seen plenty of press for issues involving
Muslims of late. Three brothers who ran the Middle Eastern Market in Grand
Rapids pled guilty to a food stamp scam in exchange for prosecutors not seeking
charges against two more brothers.
The scam
netted $736,000 from EBT and $544,000 in WIC.
That puts the amount
stolen from taxpayers by the three brothers – Emad Khalil Karaein, Jawad
Khalil-Ahmad Karaein, and Khader Khalil Karaein – at over $1,200,000.
EBT and WIC can,
of course, only be used on certain items. The scam worked by providing food
stamp recipients with a reduced amount of cash for their food stamps.
The brothers would
then use the cards at full value to buy eligible products. The scam
allegedly ran for nine years, which shows just what a bang-up job we’re
doing at stopping entitlement fraud.
Our food
stamp rolls have ballooned from 31.9 million in 2009 to 46.4 million, so
maybe it’s a bit difficult for the bureaucracy to keep track.
There was likely
no shortage of people willing to sell, either. A recent YouTube
video called “How many wives can a Muslim have on Welfare in Michigan?”
asked that very question. (Spoiler alert: it’s quite a few more than one.)
And Michigan became
the first state to start offering welfare assistance and forms in
Arabic, ensuring that the Karaein brothers certainly won’t be the last welfare
fraudsters in the Great Lake State.
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