Six women charged in food stamp fraud scheme

The director of Fort Wayne's federal housing program and five other women have been charged in an alleged welfare fraud scheme.

[cowens]

That's what's wrong with our country, everybody thinks they are entitled

[jklxn]

wow, the housing authority? man. bet she doesnt get fired.
why the hell couldnt they have just shut down the card?

[calideeholmes]

Fools like this make it harder for honest people who really need the help...smdh

[socorroguerrero]

Those who give food stamps should be held accountable also. There needs to be investigations before issuing food stamps.

[marcywalls]

Need to go down. Greed is ruining our Country. Just work pay your taxes stop trying to take something for nothing. Get up and Work!!

[helenamensah]

That Housing authority lady has her grey laid! Too bad if she serves time it’ll cut into her hair styling time. She was a manager at the Housing authority she didn’t even need the food stamps, just ridculous!

[hectormunoz]

It sounds to me like Mr Scales has already decided that Betty Anderson is guilty of nothing . I bet nothing happens to these crooks, they won't pay the money back, and everybody will continue to say that black people don't get a fair shake in this country

[freddiev]

That program should only be for the physically impaired & the elderly.

[dorothycarter]

03/02/18 What happened to the employee who made the mistake?

[novajean]

Smh spending all those foodstamps wasn't worth the consequences of being a felon for the rest of y'alls lives!

[briannotafan]

ban her for life &garnish any income till debt is paid back + interest

[psycho.dad]

NO MONEY  should be involved, send food to leaches instead of money or build distribution centers and they can go get FOOD and only food there.

[Silverwings]

How did welfare affect the Great Depression?
While attitudes toward government assistance began to change during the Great Depression, going on welfare was still viewed as a painful and humiliating experience for many families.
MY HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED!

[rickchaffe]

Watch it again and listen this time. They did proactively steal. They received notification of the error and didn't respond. They then went out and used or sold the stamps. They went to someone, asked for money and gave the stamps in return. Fraud and theft in one action. These people most definitely stole on purpose. It wasn't a mistake.

[charlesmoreland]

She should be fired and have to repay back all benefits!!! And this is why the ones that truly need it are gonna be the ones that suffer threw all goen on now...

[angiecoers]

Everybody is the system, that's why most people get away with it. Certain groups know the system and they will screw Uncle Sam because they feel it is owed to them.

[jannecechmanek]

Even still, it's illegal to not report mistakes in your benefits to the government when it's obvious.

[emutiny]

the problem is the corporations are in bed with the government and write the laws together. So their "theft" is actually not illegal under the laws they lobbied so hard for.

[annettephillips]

Lmao that they thought she was gonna come in. The weedman & crack dealers probably got the majority of them stamps.

[papamedvedya]

This makes the system that assists persons that need help look bad, no one likes having to get help, and the funds are limited so someone’s kids went without because of it.