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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Food Stamps Used To Buy 1,200 Cases Of Red Bull

The owner of a Fairfield Avenue grocery store was charged with illegally using government food stamp money to buy 1,200 cases of Red Bull.

Aslam Khawaja, 48, of Iranistan Avenue, the owner of the SK Grocery at 856 Fairfield Ave., was charged Wednesday with first-degree larceny by defrauding a public community, a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

From March through December 2013 Khawaja paid cash to 128 of his customers who are on the state's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for their SNAP benefits at 50 cents to a dollar of benefit, the arrest affidavit states.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have heard through a co-worker that people sell their welfare money all the time for cash, if they can afford to do that then they are receiving more cash advance, and money on their EBT than they should be receiving.I wish they would abolish welfare.

Anonymous said...

This is a lot of BULL!

Anonymous said...

LOL!! He has the Democrat lingo down already! "" I was just trying to help poor people"" !!
By ripping them off just like Democrats!!