NYC welfare food is shipped in barrels to the Dominican Republic - then sold on the b

MrLiberty · #1 (**permalink**) 07-28-2013, 05:33 PM

AH yes, the scam continues.

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Food-stamp fraud in New York has turned into foreign aid — to black-market profiteers in the Dominican Republic.

Last week, The Post revealed how New Yorkers on welfare are buying food with their benefit cards and shipping it in blue barrels to poor relatives in the Caribbean.

But not everyone is giving the taxpayer-funded fare to starving children abroad. The Post last week found two people hawking barrels of American products for a profit on the streets of Santiago.

“It’s a really easy way to make money, and it doesn’t cost me anything,” a seller named Maria-Teresa said Friday.

The 47-year-old Bronx native told The Post she scalps barrels of Frosted Flakes and baby formula bought with welfare money in the United States.

Maria-Teresa said she gets new barrels every few weeks from her sister, who buys everything at a Western Beef on Prospect Avenue near East 165th Street in Foxhurst.

The scamming sibling pays $75 per barrel to transport the items to the DR through Mott Haven’s Luciano Shipping. Sometimes the family fraudsters take advantage of a special: three barrels for the price of two.

Maria-Teresa said she uses some of the products but vends the rest out of her Santiago home, providing markdowns of $1 to $2 compared to what her buyers would pay in local shops.

“I don’t know how much of a business it is, but I know a lot of people are doing it,” she said.

EXCLUSIVE: Dominican Republic scammers sell welfare food bought in NYC and shipped in barrels - NYPOST.com

As I said when I first posted about this. These people need to be heavily fined and have their EBT cards taken away.

BridgetRose · #2 (**permalink**) 07-29-2013, 09:22 PM

personally I think welfare, as we know it today, needs to go the way of the dinosaur.

If the Goverment gives you cash you should have to work for the tax payers doing something, even licking envelopes and scrubbing public bathrooms.

40yearfan · #3 (**permalink**) 07-29-2013, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by BridgetRose

personally I think welfare, as we know it today, needs to go the way of the dinosaur.

If the Goverment gives you cash you should have to work for the tax payers doing something, even licking envelopes and scrubbing public bathrooms.

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