Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Crete Store Owner Headed To Jail For Food Stamp Fraud


It's Tax Day.  Most likely, you've paid your fair share of income taxes to Uncle Sam and the state.  So we couldn't help passing along this morsel.

The Lincoln Journal Star is reporting that a Crete store owner, along with a Lincoln man, received probation and jail time Wednesday for buying food stamp card numbers from homeless people, giving them 50 cents on the dollar.

Juan Garivay, 48, bought the card numbers from people at the Lincoln City Mission, then gave them to Jose Banos, 40, the owner of Crete's Super Latina Store, who manually entered them in his credit card machine for hundreds of dollars of grocery purchases that never happened, according to the Nebraska State Patrol.

The two split the money.

In February, they pleaded no contest to felony theft charges, setting up sentencing Wednesday.  With good time, they will have to serve a little more than three months in jail. That's it -- and 18 months probation.

No word on whether the two are in the county legally.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Government (taxpayers) spent $74.1 billion in fiscal year 2014 to give 46.5 million Americans food stamps -- including guys like Garivay and Banos.

Happy Tax Day.

4 comments:

  1. Close the store, sell off everyting to repay what they defrauded taxpayers out of. If they are in the U.S. illegally, send them back home. I'm tired of working hard to keep a roof over my head, food on the table & the bills paid only to see my tax dollars given away. I'm subject to random drug testing, so I think folks receiving government assistance should be subject to the same thing in order to get my tax dollars.

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  2. The store owner lives three blocks from me and he isn't illegal, he is a citizen. 3 months in jail isn't enough. He should have to repay the money, with interest and he shouldn't be able to accept EBT payments EVER AGAIN!!

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  3. And, what about the people who sold them the food stamps in the first place. .. .

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  4. And what about the people who sold them the food stamps in the first place. . .

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