Dozens of arrests in Crack Down foodstuffs stamp trafficking in human beings
Agents of repression implementation of a federal raid on food stamp trafficking arrested by dozens of bartenders, grocers, and other suspected drug traffickers on Friday, to the detriment of trade cocaine and money for food stamps.
The arrests were part of an effort on the agriculture division for the eradication of fraud in connection with $ 27 billion a year food stamp program, the federal government’s largest welfare. In the first seven weeks after the raid, 106 people were arrested, charged or convicted.
More arrests or charges, many nationals of dollars of fraud, are likely in the coming weeks, federal officials said.
“Author of the program will not be tolerated,” said Secretary of Agriculture Daniel R. Glickman. The operation, he said, “is an example of what the Clinton administration is currently and will continue to do so, to ensure that food stamps for men and children really need. ”
The Division of food and consumer policy has recently estimated that unscrupulous food paid in cash for approximately $ 815 million in food stamps in 1993.
Nearly Ocilla, in southern Georgia, the hotel fired on Friday, arresting 60 people charged with selling crack and cocaine powder for food stamps, Division of Agriculture said investigators.
At Brownsville, Tex., 20 people were arrested on charges that the foods they buy stamps for cash at 50 cents on the dollar, said officials.
Among the research were a grocery store owner and workers and local workers in taverns, restaurants and two garages.
Federal investigators have explained that they had to determine where the suspected drug traffickers in Georgia and those arrested in Texas, food stamps, in which she pleads for the purchase of money or cocaine.
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