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In the news is “…a scheme that involved exchanging government SNAP benefits for cash at a discount, selling ineligible items like liquor and beer, and even profiting from “MannaPacks”—humanitarian rice meal packs intended for global aid, which were sold for $8 each. Undercover operations confirmed the fraud, with agents witnessing cash trafficking and noting that the stores generated minimal legitimate revenue. That wasn’t some petty scam; it was part of a massive fraud ring run by Haitian nationals in Boston. At the same time, another scheme operated by Yemeni nationals in New York was busy pulling off a similar heist. Combined, these criminal enterprises are charged with stealing a staggering $27 million in taxpayer-funded food stamps. And that’s just what we know about so far. This isn’t a story about a few bad apples. This is organized crime, plain and simple. Federal authorities say the Boston ring allegedly used comically small convenience stores—we’re talking glorified closets—to launder an incredible $500,000 in SNAP benefits every single month. That’s more than six times what a typical large supermarket processes. Over in Brooklyn, it was the same story, different cast. Yemeni nationals were indicted for a racket that vacuumed up $20 million, using fake and stolen EBT cards from at least ten different states. If this sounds familiar, it should. It’s the same playbook we saw with the massive welfare fraud indictments of Somali nationals in Minnesota. This is a systemic attack on America’s welfare system.” Is this more than ordinary criminality?
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The Director of Department of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, just announced that government records were turned over to the Justice Department for investigation because they describe a White House meeting on Dec. 9, 2016, by then lame-duck President Barack Obama, in which he directed that a revised intelligence estimate be generated alleging Russian hacking of the presidential election to rig it in favor of Donald Trump. She said: “There is irrefutable evidence that details how President Barack Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew that was false.” The records show that prior intelligence estimates had said no evidence was found of any cyberattacks or tampering with voting had occurred by Russia in the 2016 presidential election. If true, this would seem to represent a malicious and cynical perversion of our democracy for political gain from hampering the newly elected Republican president. The Watergate scandal got President Nixon to resign for conspiring with a group of rogue former CIA operatives to bug a telephone at the Democrat campaign headquarters. Here we have President Obama commandeering federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies, including the CIA, DNI, NSA, FBI, and DOJ to spy on and undermine a newly elected Republican administration with investigations now spanning 10 years. If true, this is breathtaking in its scope and daring. Was this more than “politics” but rather an orchestrated series of mind control manipulations to tar everyone involved?
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