Thread: Texas grocer gets prison over food stamp fraud

Texas grocer gets prison over food stamp fraud

Published 07:52 a.m., Wednesday, January 18, 2012

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A South Texas grocer has been sentenced to almost four years in prison and must repay nearly $2.5 million over electronic food stamp fraud.

Prosecutors say 56-year-old Parviz Sheikh Rezaei ran Pariz Dollar Supermarket in Brownsville.

A federal judge in Brownsville on Tuesday sentenced the businessman to 46 months in prison.

Rezaei in August pleaded guilty in the fraud investigation involving swapping card benefits from participants in the food stamp program for discounted amounts of cash. Prosecutors say Rezaei would then charge the government for the full value of the Lone Star card transaction.

Texas grocer gets prison over food stamp fraud - San Antonio Express-News

Grocery stores are excellent resources for illegal aliens (as are US Post Offices). Both offer super-easy international express money orders where they can launder any kind of cash from working at the local Tysons or roofer business to washing dope money back into Mexican cartels.

We are talking BILLION$ in money transfers each year.

The amount of food stamps has got to be in the hundreds of millions also. Much of this food stamp money is bartered for everything from clothing to gasoline to weapons and ammunition.

Just use your imagination.