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12-02-2015 08:18 AM |
City workers spent $120K in food stamps on Red Bull
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Two city workers exploited flaws in the city?s welfare system to swipe $2.1 million worth of food stamps and rental subsidies ? and then spent $120,000 on Red Bull, authorities said Tuesday.
Petronila Peralta of The Bronx and Cherrise Watson-Jackson of Queens ? both longtime employees of the Human Resources Administration ? were charged with fraud, along with 11 co-conspirators who allegedly helped carry out the scam between 2008 and 2013.
Officials said Peralta took advantage of a ?vulnerability? in the welfare benefits system that allowed her to dole out more than $600,000 in phony benefits to 140 ineligible recipients using paper forms that didn?t register in electronic records.
Peralta also used recruiters to find welfare recipients who would fork over their account information in exchange for cash, authorities said.
City workers spent $120K in food stamps on Red Bull, authorities say | New York Post
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