Dozens of arrests in Crack Down foodstuffs
Agents of repression implementation of a federal raid on food stamp trafficking arrested 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 in the process, and will continue to done 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.
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