By Carli Teproff, The Miami Herald
Opa-locka Fruit and Produce Market didn’t just sell fruits and vegetables.
Commentary by: Lynn Cheramie, Founder, Freedom Fighters of America
This is the current state of the Food Stamp Program. Everyone on Food Stamps should have to reapply for benefits with new regulations and strict control over where and what type of foods can be purchased. Illegal Immigrants or non US Citizens should not qualify until they start paying taxes. Did anyone else notice all of the Hispanic names? Just sayin!
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Opa-locka Fruit and Produce Market didn’t just sell fruits and vegetables.
Instead, owners Karla Rodriguez Diaz and Luis Marzo Machado allegedly used their produce market inside the Opa-locka Hialeah Flea Market to bilk the government out of $2.4 million, Wifredo A. Ferrer, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, said Wednesday.
Diaz and Machado were two of 22 people charged in 15 cases Wednesday in “Operation Stampede,” organized to bust business owners and their employees who allowed customers to use their government-issued EBT food stamp card as a means to get cash, in exchange for a cut. In total, Ferrer said there were more than $13 million in fraudulent food stamp transactions stemming from markets throughout South Florida, the largest food stamp fraud take-down in U.S. history.
Diaz and Machado were two of 22 people charged in 15 cases Wednesday in “Operation Stampede,” organized to bust business owners and their employees who allowed customers to use their government-issued EBT food stamp card as a means to get cash, in exchange for a cut. In total, Ferrer said there were more than $13 million in fraudulent food stamp transactions stemming from markets throughout South Florida, the largest food stamp fraud take-down in U.S. history.
Commentary by: Lynn Cheramie, Founder, Freedom Fighters of America
This is the current state of the Food Stamp Program. Everyone on Food Stamps should have to reapply for benefits with new regulations and strict control over where and what type of foods can be purchased. Illegal Immigrants or non US Citizens should not qualify until they start paying taxes. Did anyone else notice all of the Hispanic names? Just sayin!
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