NJ.com: The 25-year-old owner of a Newark deli admitted Tuesday she defrauded the government out of $888,000 in a food stamps scheme she ran over more than six years.
Maria Teresa Venegas, of Newark, pleaded guilty to one count of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey said in a statement.
She faces up to 20 years in prison when she is sentenced Jan. 19 for running the scheme at Jenny’s Deli between November 2011 and February 2018. Charges are still pending against her father, Manuel Venegas, who is also accused in taking part in the scam.
Though SNAP recipients are only allowed to use their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards to buy certain food items, Venegas instead gave some customers cash by entering made-up dollar amounts for their purchases. more here
Maria Teresa Venegas. Who would have guessed?
My Maria,,, your fraud runs so deep in you,
Illegal Mom-ma,,,
with those anchor babies, um um umm,
I hope ICE gets YOU!
Ogh YEA!!!!!
We need to go back to soup lines.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Those Obama years were some good times for the fraudsters. Maria would be well over a million dollars by now if Hillary had won.
Let’s see … that’s one … how many others are skulking around out there?
I listened to a “Risk Assessment” lecture once, where the guy said: “$10 on the table, 10 ft. to the door a guy with a pistol – not many would take the risk. But put $1,000,000 on the table, everything else equal, and some might take the risk.”
The shop owner (obviously) thought little of the risk. Why? Because, under some administrations there is less chance of prosecution? Or is the money just too easy? My guess is sloppy accounting, if any accounting, whatsoever. Broadcast the money (it isn’t theirs, anyway, is it?) like you do lawn seed and don’t worry too much about how much is eaten by the birds.
Fuck it – it’s “Free Money” after all is said and done – nobody’s out anything.
Right?
izlamo delenda est …