Brickbat: Hearty Appetite

In Madera County, California, federal authorities arrested former welfare benefits worker Leticia Mariscal for using her position to steal food assistance funds. Prosecutors say Mariscal accessed county databases through her job to steal the identities of more than 15 elderly or deceased people and then secretly approved them for food benefits through CalFresh, the state's food stamp program. She then printed cards and spent the funds herself, stealing over $40,000 between 2020 and 2025. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

If she beats the wrap she gets to go on food stamps herself. If not, still getting three squares a day.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Set for life!

[rbike]

This column should be Urban Heroes

[SRG2]

Nowhere near enough fraud to get a pardon from Trump. Jeez, think bigger if you want that Get Out of Jail Free card.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/bidens-clemency-pardon-list-includes-former-elected-official-lawyers-m-rcna184032

In Ohio, a former Cuyahoga County commissioner, Jimmy Dimora, served more than a decade in prison on corruption charges before Biden commuted his sentence Thursday. Prosecutors said Dimora orchestrated a sweeping pay-to-play scheme alongside a longtime political ally, former Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo, to collect about $450,000 in bribes that included gambling trips to Las Vegas and Canada, prostitutes and even a stone-fired pizza oven.

A former law partner from Illinois, Paul Daugerdas, was convicted of overseeing fraudulent tax shelters — at a cost to the government of more than $1.63 billion. The scheme generated over $7 billion of fraudulent deductions, according to prosecutors. His law firm agreed to pay a $76 million penalty. Prosecutors called Daugerdas “the most prolific, pernicious and utterly unrepentant tax cheat in United States history,” while a judge described the case as “the biggest tax fraud prosecution ever,” according to Forbes. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2014; Biden commuted his sentence.

A medical billing company owner, Elaine Lovett, of Wayne County, Michigan, was convicted in 2017 for her role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud Medicare using false billing claims, in a takedown that included 20 Detroit-area doctors and health care workers, according to federal prosecutors. The $26 million scheme involved billing Medicare for services that were never provided and efforts to bypass the government’s probe. Lovett was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered by the federal District judge in the case to pay more than $9 million in restitution.

[mad.casual]

I don't know how to feel about this without knowing which Horn-of-Africa Nation the fraudster is seeking asylum from.

One person, $8K yr. for 5 yrs. sounds pretty 'under control' to me.

Whether or not the fraudster is from Somalia is the new most important thing.

[Longtobefree]

40K over 5 years?
Amateur.

[Medulla Oblongata]

This guy also an amateur...but seems to be about par for low-level government employees these days.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/former-congressional-employee-arrested-indicted-theft-240-cell-phones

Christopher Southerland, 43, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, was arrested Friday and charged in a federal indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court for stealing approximately 240 government cell phones, valued at over $150,000, from the U.S. House of Representatives, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.

According to the government’s evidence, from approximately April 2020 until July 2023, Southerland worked as a system administrator for the House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. As a system administrator, Southerland was authorized to order cell phones for Committee staff members.

From January 2023 through May 2023, Southerland allegedly used his position to cause 240 new government cell phones to be shipped directly to his home in Maryland. During that time, there were only approximately 80 staff members on the committee. Southerland then sold over 200 of the cell phones to a nearby pawn shop.

[TJJ2000]

But she was told by her [D] Gov-Gods that it was all ?free?! /s
I guess it was just ?free? for the [D] Gov-Gods selling their criminal politics to blinded sheeple.