Thread: Buffalo, NY Daycare Owner Sentenced to 12 Months for Ripping off US Taxpayers

Buffalo, NY Daycare Owner Sentenced to 12 Months for Ripping off US Taxpayers

January 1, 2019

Just before Christmas the US Justice Department announced that Tariq Butt, 42, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of theft of government funds, was sentenced to serve 12 months in prison and was ordered to pay $305,000 in restitution to the US Department of Health and Human Resources.



So what did Butt and his wife Halima Mohammed do?

They were the owners of two day care centers with the adorable names of Twinkle Stars Day Care Center and Candyland Daycare, both located in the City of Buffalo.

In only a little over 8 months they scammed us to the tune of $305,000 via a government program known as the Child Care and Development Block Grant program when they submitted “hundreds of false and fraudulent claims” for children who did not attend the daycare.

According to the Urban Institute,

“The Child Care and Development Block Grant is a federal and state program that allows states to help low-income families pay for child care so they can work or attend a job training or educational program.”

And, get this, the program got an additional $5.8 billion from the feds in February 2018.

Gee, and Trump only wants $5 billion to secure our border.

Butts’ wife, Halima Mohammed, was previously convicted and sentenced to five months in prison and three years supervised release, to include five months home detention.

Local news reported the story on December 20^th, here and here.

This story and others like it rarely make the national news.

There is no mention of nationality or immigration status of the pair.

Buffalo, NY Daycare Owner Sentenced to 12 Months for Ripping off ..

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January 1, 2019~

As many of you know, I wrote the blog Refugee Resettlement Watch for eleven years beginning in July of 2007. My goal was to educate Americans about the US Refugee Admissions Program and related refugee issues here and around the world.




I wanted to see the USRAP reformed, and although President Donald Trump has slowed the flow of refugees into the US, it is not enough.

I could be wrong, but I don’t see the major reform I believe is needed happening as the Democrats now control the House of Representatives.

Beating my head against a wall for two more years strikes me as nuts!

So, I’m doing what I threatened over the years and am writing a blog about frauds and crooks.

My inspiration and purpose is to balance news like this news from Columbus, Ohio about a Left-wing film company planning a ‘diversity is beautiful’ film just in time for the 2020 Presidential election!

If you have been a long time reader of RRW, you know my side interest was in SNAP fraud, otherwise known as food stamp fraud, not the little stuff, but the huge scam involving trafficking in food stamps.

This blog will be about that fraud and a heckuva lot of other frauds being perpetrated on US taxpayers and average citizens. There is medicare and medicaid fraud, money laundering scams, daycare fraud, vote fraud, immigration and asylum fraud, and even frauds on lonely little old ladies using popular dating services….
….not to mention crimes and terrorism that don’t involve money, but threaten our safety and the safety of our country.
So you can see, I will have a lot of material to write about!

You will be happy to hear that I don’t expect to write more than one or two posts a day with the exception of sending out short, time sensitive fraud alerts as they come up.

And, one last thing! I have chosen a clean website format and hope to keep it simple to read and navigate. There won’t be any ads popping up either!

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Ann
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If you didn’t know I started a new website called Frauds, Crooks and Criminals three weeks ago and have posted about 40 times there already.

Here are two posts from yesterday that might interest you (click on the headline):
Worcester “Man” Admits Guilt in Identity Theft Scheme at Crooked Convenience Store

And, here:
Cleveland: Suit against Catholic Charities in boy’s shocking death

And, from last Friday:
Tuberculosis in the Migrant and Refugee Population: Is Silence Deception?

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