It doesn’t take long to analyze the sleezee mayor of the Windy City. A place know for two murders a day; where killings are commonplace which are accepted as a cost of doing business. But now we have a loud mouth POS who is incensed that Elon and his DOGE team is cutting fraud and abuse by those who receive WIC, EBT and SNAP benefits. Not a day goes by where the Chicago Bodegas don’t break the law. In fact just the other day one of the largest food stamp frauds in U.S. history was uncovered.
The defendants—MICHAEL KEHOE, MOHAMAD NAWAFLEH, OMAR ALRAWASHDEH, GAMAL OBAID, EMAD ALRAWASHDEH, and ARLASA DAVIS—are charged with conspiracy to steal government funds and to misappropriate U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) benefits, among other charges.
FBI Assistant Director in Charge Christopher G. Raia said: “Arlasa Davis, a USDA employee, is alleged to have abused her position and privileged access to confidential government databases to assist her co-conspirators in exploiting the SNAP program, driving tens of millions of dollars in fraudulent transactions. This alleged scheme benefited the defendants while undermining critical safeguards designed to ensure that SNAP assistance reaches only eligible families in need. The FBI will never tolerate any individual who exploits federal financial assistance for personal reward.”
The SNAP program uses federal tax dollars to help low-income households purchase food. SNAP recipients use Electronic Benefit Transfer (“EBT”) cards—similar to debit cards—to buy food at participating stores. Those stores, which get license numbers from the USDA, use special EBT terminals to swipe the EBT cards. When a SNAP recipient swipes their EBT card, the system verifies the transaction and electronically deducts the purchase amount from the recipient’s account. The corresponding federal funds are then transferred to the store’s bank account.
Starting in 2019, KEHOE orchestrated a network that supplied approximately 160 unauthorized EBT terminals to stores across the New York area to illegally process more than $30 million in EBT transactions. Working with his codefendants NAWAFLEH, OMAR ALRAWASHDEH, OBAID, and EMAD ALRAWASHDEH, KEHOE submitted approximately 200 fraudulent USDA applications, misappropriating USDA license numbers and, in some cases, doctoring application documents, to obtain EBT terminals for unauthorized stores—including smoke shops and other ineligible businesses.
Back to the mayor who claims that Trump is cutting millions of families from the food supply and medicine. In other words, he is condoning fraud, theft and illegal means to enrich those who process EBT, SNAP and WIC cards. The mayor said that we need leaders to stand up for working people because the battle has reached our front doors. Hogwash, if these people were working why do they need EBT, SNAP, and WIC benefits? To add insult to injure, the Governor, none other than FAT BOY Pritzker who weighs (pun intended) in by calling Trump another Hitler.
The facts are these: Johnson has never created a job, worked for socialist organizations from day one, including NGO’s, teachers unions and other communist organizations. Outright, the guy is a plain old socialist – taking from the productive (stealing) and handing it out the non-productive (societies leaches). The worst of the worst mayors in the history of Chicago. Others have suggested that he be tossed into a meat grinder, feeding the lard to the vultures. That’s Upton Sinclairs world, “The Jungle” about a city where humans were mixed in with hamburger meat and sold to the unsuspecting consumer.
