women sentenced to prison for trying to feed her kids

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JACKSON — A Rankin County woman who lied on her food stamp application will serve more time in federal prison than a group of people sentenced in a in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme.

The Clarion Ledger reported Saturday that U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate sentenced 47-year-old Anita McLemore, the mother of two teenage children, to three years in prison.
McLemore pleaded guilty in July to one count of submitting a false claim to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Temporary Assistance and Food Stamps program. She lied about not being convicted of a felony.
But Wingate said records show McLemore has at least four felony drug convictions and one misdemeanor conviction dating to 1996.
She made false statements in 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010, according to an indictment.
McLemore, who has lived both in Rankin County and in Jackson, filed for food stamps at a Department of Human Services location in Rankin County.
McLemore received $4,367 in benefits. She has paid the money back.

full article here http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/...111130345/Woman-gets-3-years-food-stamp-fraud
 
This makes my blood boil. What a fucking country heartless fucking place deserves to sink into the ocean Atlantis style. Fuck im pissed,
 
Well, they do make it extremely clear you can't get on the SNAP program if you are a felon. What she did is fraud.

However, 3 years seems quite excessive. Honestly even 3 months would be excessive imo. She paid the money back which seems like the most important thing.

Sad. :(
 
No it is pretty rediculous. Yes it was illegal and she should be punished but I think paying a fine and MAYBE a few months in jail is all that should have happened. Like it was said if she was a white collar criminal she would have been let off way easier
 
Being part of a white collar scam is the way to go nowadays..............you make millions of dollars & if you get caught, you might get 3 to 5 years. This poor lady was trying to feed her children & got punished harshly for it in this case, no one wins..........the system has failed her big time.

She should have told a case worker the truth about her convictions & maybe there was a way around to help her because it is fraud to lie about a felony. I dont understand how a judge can send this woman to prison for such a long time...........it seems when you're poor & cant afford a good lawyer, you suffer drastically & are made an example of.
 
This is the kind of thing that makes me glad I live in the UK, though it will only be a matter of time before this kind of thing happens over here. Britain is becoming pretty fucked up at the moment. Saddens me a bit really.
 
completely fucked up. such a twisted situation, feel so sorry for her and her kids
 
Don't fuck with the federal government unless you're certain you'll get away with it. They don't play.

I know this woman who's doing seven years just for trying to get a fake passport.
 
how are people suppose to maintain positive change in their life, when once your convicted of a drug crime you get screwed in so many ways..
 
The thing is, she was a felon because of the immoral war on drugs.
She probably was either trying to a) make some money to feed her family, or b) to feel good/better, and used drugs, and - for some sick reason - got arrested for it.
If we had decent, moral laws, she would never have been a felon in the first place.
 
If you can support a habit (and most of us know how much a habit cost) then buy your own fucking food. Most taxpayers do not mind helping someone buy FOOD, which is what SNAP is for. I *do* resent purchasing someones dope while their kids go hungry.

Otherwise, if you want to play the game, man up and take the consequences. These women say it is to "feed their children" and in the next breath they are in front of Kroger selling the food stamps for fifty cents on the dollar. Wonder why they need cash? Things that make you go hmmmmm
 
^^^Rocketqueen every fucking comment ive read of yours all you do is jump to conclusions and accuse people without knowing a damn thing. Personally I have a drug felony that has been expunged and while im not really struggling for food or with a habit I know that even people that have their shit together at this current time are struggling with bills and putting food on the table. You cant just look at this as she lied for food stamps so she could spend more money on a habit. Where in that article does it say she CURRENTLY has a drug problem? It only says in the past and I honestly dont know anyone addicted to anything that is gonna payback $4700 especially to the government.
 
You can't sell food stamps anymore its all on cards nowadays.... And food stamps is not cash assistance. What happened to her was wrong because a mother will do anything she has to for her children. All I can say is fuck the system.
 
^ Nah people still sell food stamps.

I know dealers that just take junkies to the grocery store with them, pick out stuff, then have the user pay for it with the EBT card.
 
nowdubnvr6 said:
^^^Rocketqueen every fucking comment ive read of yours all you do is jump to conclusions and accuse people without knowing a damn thing. Personally I have a drug felony that has been expunged and while im not really struggling for food or with a habit I know that even people that have their shit together at this current time are struggling with bills and putting food on the table. You cant just look at this as she lied for food stamps so she could spend more money on a habit. Where in that article does it say she CURRENTLY has a drug problem? It only says in the past and I honestly dont know anyone addicted to anything that is gonna payback $4700 especially to the government.
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If you do not like/agree with my posts block them from your view or do not read them. That is the best I can do for your problem. Worse yet, you have mistaken me for someone who cares that you don't like my posts. You jump to the conclusion that the accused did not lie to get food stamps so she could feed her dope habit. You are naive and I am cynical.

If people want to purchase food with their food stamps, I , as a taxpayer, am happy to oblige. But I stand by my belief that if you can afford a habit you can afford food. As far as her having to pay back the money, I am betting they withheld her tax refund check(s) 'till the debt was paid.
 
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Don't fuck with the federal government unless you're certain you'll get away with it. They don't play.

I know this woman who's doing seven years just for trying to get a fake passport.
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That's hardly the same thing.

Getting a fake passport is a MAJOR felony for one can use it in so many different ways. Like avoiding customs, extradition and identity theft to name a few.

This is just a women trying to feed her kids. I doubt she had anything sinister in mind.
 
LogicSoDeveloped said:
^ Nah people still sell food stamps.

I know dealers that just take junkies to the grocery store with them, pick out stuff, then have the user pay for it with the EBT card.
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At my local Publix around the first of the month, people offer to sell you $100 worth of food for $50 or whatever.

A lot more shit takes place with social security though. Come those checks on the first of the month and the haze of crack vapor is visible from space.
 
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