Heroin Kingpin Busted in Florida is an Illegal Alien…on FOOD STAMPS

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Let me guess, once again this is black folks problem, right? I'm just waiting on you to bring it out.

Naturally.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

maybe not black, but sufficiently brown.

A little dark brown maybe.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

It's prevalent across the USA, not only that county in Florida.

If that's true then it is an extremely bad strategy to highlight a two and a half year old case and try to pass it off as News hoping no one will notice. The latter does seem to work well with the brainless, I guess.

[Darnell 8,478]

eh - when it makes the news, usually the investigation was at least 6 months unless there was a super-fast bust going down.

still, it's great an illegal alien was nabbed, for that, I am happy.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

eh - when it makes the news, usually the investigation was at least 6 months unless there was a super-fast bust going down.

still, it's great an illegal alien was nabbed, for that, I am happy.

Eh, it made the News when the bust went down 2.5 years ago. The investigation started 14 months earlier - that would be alomst 4 years ago. The press release issued at the time of the bust has pretty decent timelines. This just isn't News in January 2014 no matter how much the right wingers want to believe that it is.

Edited January 27, 2014 by Mr. Big Dog

[decocker 7,198]

A little dark brown maybe.

ah yes. a muted, yet fanciful.. sludge brown.

[Pooky 3,784]

Let me guess, once again this is black folks problem, right? I'm just waiting on you to bring it out.

Not black folks this time.

This is an illegal immigrant thread.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Not black folks this time.

This is an illegal immigrant thread.

About time.

[Darnell 8,478]

Eh, it made the News when the bust went down 2.5 years ago. The investigation started 14 months earlier - that would be alomst 4 years ago. The press release issued at the time of the bust has pretty decent timelines. This just isn't News in January 2014 no matter how much the right wingers want to believe that it is.

OK - I've been had, duped, by

The Nature Boy (pbuh).

Drats! Curses!

That Nature Boy Fella, I tells ya, he's scraping stuff off of the edge o wetness!

This is worse than showing righteous indignation after a Daily Currant post.

OK OK , 500 points to The Nature Boy (pbuh) for spinning a nice one.

Edited January 27, 2014 by Darnell

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

Eh, it made the News when the bust went down 2.5 years ago. The investigation started 14 months earlier - that would be alomst 4 years ago. The press release issued at the time of the bust has pretty decent timelines. This just isn't News in January 2014 no matter how much the right wingers want to believe that it is.

Where did you find the older story? Two pages of google say within the last few days.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Where did you find the older story? Two pages of google say within the last few days.

That's your right wing echo chamber. Idiots copying idiots - works like a charm every time. There was no heroin kingpin bust in Polk county within the last few days. The case that is being referred to here played out between early 2010 and mid 2011 when the actual bust occurred. It was reported in the News when it happened over two and a ha;f years ago. You were had. Twice now.

Edited January 27, 2014 by Mr. Big Dog

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Top Right News?

Try Super Slow News. So slow, it ain't even "news" anymore. This story is over two and half years old and the right wingers just realize now what happened in June of 2011? It takes a super slow mind to be a right winger, yes? Two and a half years to digest a story and then present it as news. Geez!

But look, the point of my pointing out that this is old news is this: If this rampant abuse of food stamps needs to be highlighted, surely you can find outrageous incidents that happened, say, last week or maybe at least last month? Lots of them to boot. Do you really have to go back over two and a half years to find something? If so, then maybe it's not that big an issue? There will always be cheaters and those that skim the government. Some do it big time and then become governors later in life - we have one of those species here right here in the Sunhine state.

This is the news release from Grady Judd's office.

Polk County Sheriff’s Office Dismantles Heroin Trafficking Organization

A total of 33 people have been arrested after a 14-month-long investigation into one of Polk County’s largest heroin trafficking organizations in Polk County history. On Tuesday, June 14, 2011, Polk County Sheriff’s Office undercover narcotics detectives, in conjunction with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arrested five males who were part of the Lakeland based organization. 27 others were arrested and charged throughout the duration of the investigation with one suspect being sought.

Here are actual News reporting on it - when it happened:

Deputies: Lakeland heroin ringleader used food stamps 8:15 AM, Jun 15, 2011

You spent a lot of words to say NANAN NANA BOO BOO it's does not count becuse it's two years old.. So there!

It's aged out if your rebuttal. LOL OMG I might have to get a new letter.

This was last year. 6 Million in a small county with 10K people. Does this count?

http://www.fbi.gov/atlanta/press-releases/2013/final-defendant-sentenced-%20in-food-stamp-fraud-schemes-in-wilkinson-county

Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Lashaundra Evans, 32 of Wilkinson County, Georgia, was sentenced on Tuesday, December 3, 2013, by the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, United States District Judge, in Macon, Georgia, to serve 12 months and one day imprisonment and to pay $14,460 in restitution to the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the result of her plea of guilty on July 29, 2013, to federal charges of one count of food stamp fraud.

Ms. Evans was part of a food stamp fraud scheme involving Elbert Eugene Shinholster, 77, also of Wilkinson County, who was sentenced on October 18, 2013 to serve 40 months in prison and to pay restitution in the amount of $4,680,557.20 for food stamp fraud and money laundering. Mr. Shinholster was the owner and operator of Shinholster's Grocery and Meat Market located in Irwinton, Georgia. He illegally conspired with almost 2,000 food stamp recipients to defraud the food stamp program. As part of the scheme, each food stamp recipient would provide Mr. Shinholster with an electronic benefits transfer (EBT) card and personal identification number. Mr. Shinholster would then run the EBT card through the point of sale machine administered by the Food Stamp Program as though the cardholder had purchased food, when, in fact, the cardholder got cash instead. Mr. Shinholster admitted that he knew that an EBT card was to be used to purchase food only and not to be sold for cash. The illegal EBT debit would include an additional 30 percent of the cash amount as profit for Mr. Shinholster.

In addition to Lashaundra Evans, 15 other defendants from Wilkinson County pled guilty to participating with Mr. Shinholster in the food stamp fraud and have been sentenced: Tracey McDowell, Kristi Northern, Keisha Robinson, Sheena Sanders, Krystal Allen, Angelina Curry, Brandy Day, Cassandra Harris, Willie Harris, Jazmin Hunter, Janine Jackson, Shanirah Jackson, Shamirah Jackson, Karrie Jackson, and Pamela Johnson.

“Ms. Evans took advantage of a worthwhile system that was set up to help people who need a hand, just like her and her children. What is unfortunate about these cases is that this type of fraud unquestionably becomes the topic of conversation as opposed to the many positive stories and many good people who genuinely benefit from the food stamp program,” said U.S. Attorney Michael Moore.

In a second, separate food stamp fraud and money laundering case in Wilkinson County, Alfred Boyd previously entered a plea of guilty to Food Stamp Fraud and was sentenced on October 31, 2013, to serve 52 months in prison and to pay restitution in the amount of $800,000 to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Mr. Boyd owned the Northwind Mini Mart in Mcintyre, Georgia. Between December 2009 and March 2011, he conspired with his niece, Chiquita Boyd, and a number of food stamp recipients, to defraud the Food Stamp Program. Each food stamp recipient would provide Mr. Boyd with an electronic benefits transfer (EBT) card and personal identification number and tell the defendant how much cash he or she wanted in exchange for EBT benefits. Mr. Boyd would then run the EBT card through the point of sale machine administered by the Food Stamp Program as though the cardholder had purchased food, when, in fact, the cardholder got cash instead. Mr. Boyd admitted that he knew that an EBT card was to be used to purchase food only and not to be sold for cash. Mr. Boyd would retain a percentage of the cash amount the food stamp recipient requested.

Eleven other defendants from Wilkinson County pled guilty to participating with Mr. Boyd in the food stamp fraud and have been sentenced: Tracey McDowell, Keisha Robinson, Sheena Sanders, Krystal Allen, Brandy Day, Lashaundra Evans, Cassandra Harris, Willie Harris, Jazmin Hunter, Karrie Jackson, and Pamela Johnson. Many of the defendants participated with both Mr. Shinholster and Mr. Boyd in food stamp fraud.

“These were cases of greed and serious crimes,” stated Veronica F. Hyman-Pillot, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations. “Honest and law abiding citizens are fed up with people who use deceit and fraud to obtain money that belongs to others for their own personal benefit. We are pleased with the successful resolution of these investigations due to the cooperative efforts of our law enforcement partners.”

The cases were investigated by the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Georgia Department of Human Services Office of Inspector General, and the Wilkinson County Sheriff’s Office. The cases were prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Michael Solis, Danial Bennett, and Julia Bowen.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

You spent a lot of words to say NANAN NANA BOO BOO it's does not count becuse it's two years old.. So there!

You fell for a huge, stinking pile of bull. But other right wingers fell for it twice. Comparatively speaking, you did well. Or as they say, among the blind, the one eyed is king.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

You fell for a huge, stinking pile of bull. But other right wingers fell for it twice. Comparatively speaking, you did well. Or as they say, among the blind, the one eyed is king.

So the story was untrue?/ Is that what you are saying

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

So the story was untrue?/ Is that what you are saying

It's absolutely untrue that it's News. That's what it was presented as. Falsely, of course.