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When I watched it I thought something looked wrong, but I couldn't say exactly what.

All the major news outlets and FOX covered it:

FOX:
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/f...

CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18...

ABC:
https://www.abcactionnews.com/...

NBC:

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new...
https://www.nbcchicago.com/new...
https://www.nbc-2.com/clip/147...

CBS:

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/...

Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

New York Post:
https://nypost.com/2018/12/19/...

Huffington Post:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/techn...

I think the New York Times is the only major news organization that didn't cover it from what I can google, but I don't have a subscription so I may have missed their coverage.

http://www.miamiherald.com/new...

Opa-locka Fruit and Produce Market didn’t just sell fruits and vegetables.

Instead, owners Karla Rodriguez Diaz and Luis Marzo Machado allegedly used their produce market inside the Opa-locka Hialeah Flea Market to bilk the government out of $2.4 million, Wifredo A. Ferrer, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, said Wednesday.

Diaz and Machado were two of 22 people charged in 15 cases Wednesday in “Operation Stampede,” organized to bust business owners and their employees who allowed customers to use their government-issued EBT food stamp card as a means to get cash, in exchange for a cut. In total, Ferrer said there were more than $13 million in fraudulent food stamp transactions stemming from markets throughout South Florida, the largest food stamp fraud take-down in U.S. history.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-m...

Baltimore, Maryland – In August 2016, a federal grand jury returned nine indictments charging 14 retail store operators in the greater Baltimore area with food stamp fraud and wire fraud in connection with obtaining over $16 million from the United States Department of Agriculture by illegally trading food stamp benefits for cash. Twelve of the fourteen charged defendants have pleaded guilty, and two defendants were sentenced this week to federal prison.

Today, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Mohammad Shafiq, age 51, of Baltimore, Maryland to 46 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Judge Bennett ordered Shafiq to pay restitution in the amount of $3,712,353.00.

In a separate sentencing hearing held on May 18, 2017, Judge Bennett sentenced Mohammad Irfan, age 59, of Baltimore County, Maryland, to 51 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Judge Bennett also ordered Irfan to pay restitution in the amount of $3,550,662.00.

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/352...

NBC2 started tracking local court cases to see how Heacock’s team is doing.

From 2012 to 2014, 31 people were charged with welfare fraud in Lee, Charlotte, and Collier counties.

That number has nearly doubled in recent years. Since 2015, 71 people have been charged with welfare fraud, almost all of it from false reporting.

“We're pursuing it more,” Heacock said.

“We don't go after misdemeanor cases. We only go after felony cases.”

The results are easy to see.

DPAF discovered $20,719,036 in fraud in FY 2015-16. Compare that to just $5,527,677 in FY 2010-11.

But there’s another area of food stamp fraud that Carroll would like to see better enforced.

Food stamp trafficking, as it’s called, consists of retailers trading cash for government benefit dollars. Here’s how it works:

Store customer offers retailer food stamps for cash;

Store charges $100 of food stamps then gives customer $50 cash;

Store receives $100 reimbursement from government and makes $50 profit.

“It's organized crime,” Carroll said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

Sami Deffala, who's managed a corner store in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood for 13 years, said he hears that every day from customers vying for a private moment in hopes of using their Link cards to exchange SNAP benefits, the modern-day version of food stamps, for cash — an illegal practice called trafficking by federal regulators. And every day, Deffala said, he hears them out but refuses to take part in the scheme.

"I have peop

1. SSN cited as evidence the govt is terrible at detecting and eliminating document frauds, mismatches, etc.

2. We already have a national ID standard. It was made law after 9-11 and all states are required to have compliant driver's licenses which include very clear indications of the holder's citizenship status. States like CA are currently in violation and the DHS has issued several warnings that their drivers licenses may soon not qualify as ID for boarding flights

3. even lazy journalists have been able to find that dead people are still voting, ineligible people get registered to vote, and people are registering and voting in multiple districts

They are doing this in South Florida too:

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/315...

Here in Lee County, Florida they managed to let go HALF of their garbage/recycling collectors... Now it's all done by a single driver with LARGE(330lb max) custom bins and a robotic arm that empties bins into the truck.

If self-driving cars/trucks do get off the ground you won't need anyone at the customer end...

Is it also not so far fetched to think delivery vehicles could use carefully designed dropoff box/platforms(drones)? I don't think so...

Then take into account most jobs in the USA(like 80%) are SERVICE based; essentially unnecessary/busy work...

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/298...

There have been a few issues, but generally it seems to work/improving. Way of the future I think...

It starts small on people getting arrested :)

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/200...

Yes:
http://www.realclearscience.co...
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/122...
http://www.youngcons.com/texas...

All 3 of those were beaten with MATH as in, irrefutable proof that the camera was wrong and setup to intentionally give tickets to people that did not break the law. (unless the software itself is hopelessly flawed)
biatch

Yes. My neighbor's HIV/AIDS status is none of my business because I don't have sex with my neighbor.

1. Why do you think people who have sex deserve less protection?
2. You can catch HIV/AIDS from someone without having sex

In fact I believe it is illegal to hide the fact that you have AIDS and have sex with someone. For instance: http://www.nbc-2.com/story/231...

But my neighbor's vaccination record for measles and polio IS my business because those are contagious diseases that can spread through a community.

So don't associate with him or people he associates with. Problem solved from your end!

Do you have a citation for a single dangerous fish being caught outside of that part of Japan?

Here's a few dangerous fish stories.

There was also a radiocative fish caught near California, but it wasn't deemed dangerous. But it does go to show how far the effects of the disaster have been felt so far.

Let me Google that for you:

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/02/feds-in-nj-26-arrests-made-in-325-million-counterfeit-goods-operation/
http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012/03/suspects-arrested-in-counterfeit-purse-operation/
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/14950996/2011/06/21/3-accused-of-selling-counterfeit-nikes-gucci?clienttype=printable
http://gucci.ezinemark.com/replica-gucci-handbags-low-quality-product-for-fashion-7d35cb4db7aa.html

Mostly about selling, but "...you could get yourself arrested, if you are spotted buying counterfeits."

This is only America, you know.

I would like to see how a backscatter would work on this guy. http://www.nbc-2.com/Global/story.asp?S=10860548

...we should also outlaw scratching your ear and adjusting your glasses.

Can I still shave my pussy?

I can drive that same route (105 miles) for a tenth of that...

Are you including all the costs? Plates, insurance, maintenance, etc? At least on the train you can shave your hoo-haa without causing an accident..

And quite honestly, its about the only sector that needs work on energy-efficiency to gain any benefit.

Google disagrees with you, in a really big way.

Also, anyone who has hooked up a Kill-A-Watt to their computer, and then calculated how much money per year they're spending on it, disagrees with you.

This one asshole spent an estimated half a million dollars (of someone else's money) on electricity (which is probably the main reason he really got in trouble), not counting the harder-to-measure increased electric bill for the air conditioning (he was doing this in Arizona).

Energy costs money. People care about money.

A lot has happened on this front already, see http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090731/ap_on_go_co/us_cash_for_clunkers and http://www.nbc-2.com/Global/story.asp?S=10832983

>>Ever watch those dateline shows where they catch >>the would-be child molesters? If yes, did you notice >>that many of these men send the victim porn?

Protip: That's a MAN, baby!

Or to put it another way, in the Dateline Shows there are no victims. What there are is vigilantes making a buck on the back of hysterical parents who believe everything they see on so called 'Info-tainment' News Shows. If you look, you'll see there's more entertainment than information in that description and it's that way for a reason. There is more focus on entertaining than there is on getting the facts straight.

For one thing, many of those who were caught via Perverted Justice's Dateline 'Info-tainment' antics were let off with nearly no punishment....

http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?arti cleid=10896&z=3&p=

Think about it, and ask yourself just how useful a tool these shows are if they have such flawed outcomes?

--I*Love*Green*Olives