Strip club closed after food stamps used to buy lap dances, drugs, investigators

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Wow, this is disgusting! do they still use food stamps anymore? wonder how many other strip clubs this happens at?
 
do they still use food stamps anymore?
“Food stamps” remain as an idiom that collectively refers to forms of payments from government assistance. I believe the paper food stamps are no longer distributed and instead the funds are made available through what at first glance could be mistaken for a debit card (EBT). Some EBT cards allow some amount of cash withdraw. Here is what an OHIO EBT card looks like.

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Trading food stamp funds for goods and services that are not eligible for food stamp purchases isn’t unusual. What stands out in this story is that there were a number of employees of this establishment that were involved and the business itself was penalized.
 
Food stamps as a solution have to contend with human nature and economics. So of course you get this. I worked once with a guy who bought food stamps at, if I recall correctly, fifty cents on the dollar. Technology hasn’t changed this.
 
How would they know the pin number was valid the customer who wanted a lap dance turned over? what if the card was
empty?
 
what if the card was
empty?
You can call 1-866-386-3071 and ask them for your balance or visit www.ebt.acs-inc.com. Not that this is a unique potential problem even without the number. Same thing could happen with paper checks. One can also change their pin through the above.
 
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Here in my neck of the wounds food stamps are routinely sold at 50 cents on the dollar. My neighbor used to sell his 200 food EBT card balance for 100 dollars. Then he’d buy booze and cigarettes.

He would take his friend with him shopping, let him pick everything out and then he’d pay with the EBT card get the cash and away they went.
 
Here in my neck of the wounds food stamps are routinely sold at 50 cents on the dollar. My neighbor used to sell his 200 food EBT card balance for 100 dollars. Then he’d buy booze and cigarettes.

He would take his friend with him shopping, let him pick everything out and then he’d pay with the EBT card get the cash and away they went.
I have always heard of food stamp fraud.
That is terrible!
 
Hey did anyone actually read the article? Investigators brought the food stamps. It was a sting operation, not real people on food stamps.
 
Hey did anyone actually read the article? Investigators brought the food stamps. It was a sting operation, not real people on food stamps.
Unusually stings are done after they know they will work. The sting just provides the best evidence.
 
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