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		<title>Palestinian Terrorist and Former ObamaCare Worker Found Guilty of Immigration Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 05:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[University student killer Rasmieh Odeh faces jail and deportation -- but remains a leftist hero.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Odeh1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244981" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Odeh1-408x350.jpg" alt="Odeh1" width="324" height="278" /></a>The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they do grind, and convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmieh Yousef Odeh learned that the hard way on November 10 when a Detroit jury <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-palestinian-terrorist-found-guilty-in-us-immigration-case/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">found her guilty</span></a> of committing immigration fraud. She faces up to 10 years in a federal penitentiary and deportation following her incarceration.</p>
<p>The story began on Friday, February 21, 1969 when two unsuspecting Israeli university students, Leon Kaner, 21, and Edward Jaffe, 22, stopped at a Jerusalem supermarket to pick up some last minute provisions for a hike the two were planning to take. They never made it and were blown to bits by a bomb placed in coffee cans on a shelf. Nine others were injured in the blast. Jaffe and Kaner, as well as the nine injured civilians, were targeted for no other reason other than the fact that they were Jews with the temerity to live in their ancestral land.</p>
<p>A second bomb, timed to go off just as first responders arrived, was diffused by security forces. A third bomb placed near the British consulate office in Jerusalem was also discovered and destroyed in a controlled detonation, though another bomb placed near the same vicinity some days later did manage to cause structural damage.</p>
<p>The terrorists had chosen Friday to carry out their act of depravity because they knew the supermarket would be packed with civilians shopping for the upcoming Sabbath. It was their intent to cause a bloodbath and inflict maximum civilian casualties. In a <a href="http://www.jta.org/1969/02/24/archive/jerusalem-supersol-re-opens-for-business-2-young-bombing-victims-are-buried"><span style="color: #0433ff;">testament to Israeli resiliency</span></a>, the supermarket, belonging to the “Supersol” supermarket chain, opened for business just two days later.</p>
<p>On March 1, 1969, Odeh, her sister and three others were arrested for the bombings. All were members of the notorious Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist group designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).</p>
<p>Odeh was convicted of all charges and spent the next 10 years in an Israeli prison.  She was released in 1979 as part of a prisoner exchange with the PFLP and spent the next four years living in Lebanon. Following that, she moved to Jordan and then made her way to the United States where her father lived.</p>
<p>In 1995, Odeh, who, according published reports has as many as 9 aliases, <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/2541.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">filled out an application</span></a> for an immigrant visa and alien registration and falsely checked off “no” when asked if she was ever convicted of a crime. She also falsely stated that she resided exclusively in Amman Jordan since 1948 when, in fact, she spent at least 10 years in Israel and another four in Lebanon.</p>
<p>In 2004, she applied for US citizenship and filled out an <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/2538.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Application for Naturalization</span></a> where she again lied about her prior arrest, conviction and incarceration. She also checked off “no” when asked if she ever belonged to a terrorist organization. Her application was approved and she was sworn in as a United States citizen in December 2004.</p>
<p>In 2013, Odeh secured employment as an <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/372065/convicted-terrorist-worked-obamacare-navigator-illinois-jillian-kay-melchior"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Obamacare navigator</span></a> in Illinois, a job that required her to assist people with healthcare options, but her employment was revoked once federal authorities commenced proceedings against her. In October 2013, she was indicted on charges relating to immigration fraud, to wit, lying on her 1995 and 2004 applications.</p>
<p>The high-profile case took a number of odd twists and turns. A plea deal that would have involved just six months of incarceration and would have permitted Odeh to remain in the United States for another six months following her release was rejected by the defendant.  Then, the initial presiding magistrate, Judge Paul Borman, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/trial-set-for-jerusalem-terror-convict-who-moved-to-us/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recused himself</span></a> from the case because some of his family members owned shares in Supersol and Borman wished to avoid the appearance of impropriety.</p>
<p>Despite the hitches, trial was set for November 4, 2014. Odeh took the stand and claimed that when she filled out the applications she thought the questions referencing arrests, convictions and incarcerations referred to criminal acts on U.S. soil. Her testimony however, was soundly refuted by documentary and testimonial evidence. She also acknowledged somewhat paradoxically that while her answers were erroneous, they were not lies.</p>
<p>Of course, Odeh was not without her supporters. The usual assortment of Islamists and radical leftists who always manage to find common ground when it comes to killing Jews rallied to her defense. They hooted and hollered, claiming that Odeh was a model citizen who was the victim of a US-Israeli conspiracy. Odeh’s cult-like devotees and <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/11/travesty-despite-israeli"><span style="color: #0433ff;">terrorist apologists</span></a> risibly noted that “the immigration charge was nothing but a pretext to attack this icon of the Palestine liberation movement.”</p>
<p>The jury, however, saw it otherwise and cut through Odeh’s pernicious lies and the shenanigans of her supporters and found her guilty of committing immigration fraud. Odeh served a paltry 10 years for participating in a heinous crime that resulted in the murder of two young university students and the maiming nine other civilians. While another 10 years won’t bring back the victims, it does send a powerful deterrent message to terrorists seeking entry into the United States. As <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/detroit/press-releases/2013/naturalized-u.s.-citizen-charged-with-immigration-fraud-for-failing-to-disclose-terrorism-conviction"><span style="color: #0433ff;">William Hayes</span></a>, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aptly noted, “The United States will never be a safe haven for individuals seeking to distance themselves from their pasts.”  In this case, Odeh’s murderous, terrorist past finally caught up with her.</p>
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		<title>Reza Aslan’s Lies About Islamic Female Genital Mutilation &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2014 05:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A doctor from Egypt gives a harrowing account about a vicious Islamic crime perpetrated against Muslim girls. ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s episode of <em>The Glazov Gang</em> was joined by<strong> Dr. Mark Christian</strong>, the President and Executive Director of the <a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/">Global Faith Institute</a>. He is the son and nephew of high-ranking leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in his home country of Egypt. A former Islamic Imam who converted from Islam to Christianity, he dedicated his life and work to the proposition that “the first victims of Islam are the Muslim themselves.”</p>
<p>Dr. Christian came on the show to discuss <strong>Reza Aslan’s Lies About Islamic Female Genital Mutilation</strong>, giving a first-hand account about a vicious Islamic crime perpetrated against Muslim girls. He discussed the Islamic theology that serves as the buffer to Islamic FGM and shared his own experience as a doctor trying to help the Muslim women who had been victimized by it.</p>
<p>He also shed light on <strong>Rula Jebreal&#8217;s Deceptions Against Bill Maher, </strong>unveiling the falsehoods Jebreal recently uttered on Maher&#8217;s program about Islam in her effort to delegitimize the <em>Real Time </em>host&#8217;s truth-telling about Islamic terror and tyranny <strong>(starts at 9:00 minute mark)</strong>.</p>
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		<title>Does Tax Refund Fraud Benefit Democrats?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2014 04:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Smith]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A disturbing look at who appears to be the biggest profiteer. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tax-fraud.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223539" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tax-fraud-450x337.jpg" alt="tax-fraud" width="315" height="236" /></a>In the lead up to Tax Day, the mainstream media devoted some deserved attention to the huge tax refund fraud problem we have in this country. But as usual, they failed to get specific about the root causes of the issue. That the Democrats in government gain from keeping the tax credit system as dysfunctional as possible is probably a good guess why.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Last week the AP </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/04/10/bogus-tax-refunds-problem/7557897/">reported</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> on the “$4 billion” lost every year due to “fraudulent tax refunds.” The story coincided with a recent video produced by the Department of Justice wherein Attorney General Holder reminds us to not worry, they’re on the case. The AP report isn’t specific about what types of “fraudulent tax refunds” are in issue, but $4 billion is definitely a low number compared to the total problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Earned Income Tax Credit alone costs taxpayers a whopping $12-14 billion in fraudulent payments every year. This is especially troubling considering the program pays out in total </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/key-elements/family/eitc.cfm">$56 billion</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> per year, meaning its average “improper payments rate” is around </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2011reports/201140023fr.pdf">25 per cent</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. Medicaid fraud, which is very well publicized and has its own federal task force, hovers at around 8-10 per cent a year.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">More troubling still is that the EITC is the government’s fastest growing entitlement program. Since its start in 1980 the program’s grown </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/docs/tsc_earned_income_tax_credit_2013mar20.pdf">44-fold</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. Compare this to the 8.5x increase in total entitlement spending in the same period.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The credit, which pays out up to $5,800 to a family of three, requires a valid Social Security number in order to be claimed. This restriction is easily nullified by the use of fake or stolen Social Security numbers and felony identity theft. As a result, millions of Americans, especially </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.examiner.com/article/utah-attorney-general-appears-to-put-the-interests-of-illegal-aliens-ahead-of-utah-children">children</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, have their Social Security numbers compromised every year. Who’s doing much of the thieving? </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cis.org/immigrant-welfare-use-2011">Analysts</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> say illegal aliens. The Center for Immigration Studies’ Steve Camarota found that </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/mexico/toc.html">40 percent</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> of illegals use the program (over triple the use among natives) while other analysts have found </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_19_3/tsc_19_3_rubenstein_eitc_speech.shtml">rampant</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> EITC abuse among illegals. So much for the left’s use of the term “undocumented” immigrants. Many “undocumented” immigrants are already documented; just </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cis.org/myth-law-abiding-illegal-alien">illegally</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> so.   </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">DHS Secretary under George W. Bush, Michael Chertoff, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.mario-ramos.com/blog/archives/2006/12/remarks_by_secr.html">called</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the rampant identity theft surrounding the EITC, “a violation of the privacy rights and the economic rights of innocent Americans.” Since he made that statement, the EITC fraud rate has ballooned by a further </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/04/24/irs-issued-billions-in-improper-refunds-report-says/">22 per cent</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. It’s no coincidence that this increase </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/reports/eitc_2011apr/eitc_2011apr_part_3_fraud.pdf">correlates</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> with the jump in the illegal alien population over the last few years.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As one NBC </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6814673#.U0g7JElZQcA">report</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> from 2005 noted, a compromised SSN can mess up one’s work history, Social Security benefits records and one&#8217;s credit report. Documenting the experiences of one female victim, NBC found that she was “haunted by bills and creditors [and] received threatening letters from the IRS asking her to pay taxes on money earned by her imposters.” She was told to “re-pay unemployment benefits she had received, after the government discovered she was &#8220;working&#8221; while &#8220;drawing benefits.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Despite such a horrific scenario and despite legislative efforts such as the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Improper Payments Elimination Act</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, which requires all agencies to keep their entitlement programs’ improper payments rate to below 10%, no significant improvement has been made in reducing EITC fraud. Just like our lack of border security, e-Verify and an entry-exit biometric system at each of our ports, all of which are on the law books but are simply not enforced, beefing up the policing of EITC fraud and SSN theft would harm one of Obama’s key </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/07/22/are-unauthorized-immigrants-overwhelmingly-democrats/">future constituencies</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: illegal aliens. Polls of illegals and Hispanics in general consistently show a deep preference for </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cis.org/edwards/key-latino-vote">Democratic policies</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.pewresearch.org/daily-number/hispanics-favor-bigger-role-for-government/">big government</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. Along with our unenforced immigration laws, a failed EITC system keeps the magnet for illegal aliens switched on and the Democrat’s base intact.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">AP quotes Mr. Holder as saying the scams &#8220;are carried out by a variety of actors, from greedy tax return preparers to identity brokers who profit from the sale of personal information to gangs and drug rings looking for easy access to cash.&#8221; The biggest profiteer from this fraud may just be the Democrat-controlled government itself.</span></p>
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		<title>The &#8216;War on Women&#8217; and Statistical Frauds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 04:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left's war against common sense. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/equal-pay-women-006.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223546" alt="equal-pay-women-006" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/equal-pay-women-006-450x270.jpg" width="315" height="189" /></a>The &#8220;war on women&#8221; political slogan is in fact a war against common sense.</p>
<p>It is a statistical fraud when Barack Obama and other politicians say that women earn only 77 percent of what men earn — and that this is because of discrimination.</p>
<p>It would certainly be discrimination if women were doing the same work as men, for the same number of hours, with the same amount of training and experience, as well as other things being the same. But study after study, over the past several decades, has shown repeatedly that those things are not the same.</p>
<p>Constantly repeating the &#8220;77 percent&#8221; statistic does not make them the same. It simply takes advantage of many people&#8217;s ignorance — something that Barack Obama has been very good at doing on many other issues.</p>
<p>What if you compare women and men who are the same on all the relevant characteristics?</p>
<p>First of all, you can seldom do that, because the statistics you would need are not always available for the whole range of occupations and the whole range of differences between women&#8217;s patterns and men&#8217;s patterns in the labor market.</p>
<p>Even where relevant statistics are available, careful judgment is required to pick samples of women and men who are truly comparable.</p>
<p>For example, some women are mothers and some men are fathers. But does the fact that they are both parents make them comparable in the labor market? Actually the biggest disparity in incomes is between fathers and mothers. Nor is there anything mysterious about this, when you stop and think about it.</p>
<p>How surprising is it that women with children do not earn as much as women who do not have children? If you don&#8217;t think children take up a mother&#8217;s time, you just haven&#8217;t raised any children.</p>
<p>How surprising is it that men with children earn more than men without children, just the opposite of the situation with women? Is it surprising that a man who has more mouths to feed is more likely to work longer hours? Or take on harder or more dangerous jobs, in order to earn more money?</p>
<p>More than 90 percent of the people who are killed on the job are men.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">During my research on male-female differences for my book &#8220;Economic Facts and Fallacies,&#8221; I was amazed to learn that young male doctors earned much higher incomes than young female doctors. But it wasn&#8217;t so amazing after I discovered that young male doctors worked over 500 hours more per year than young female doctors. </span>There is no point pretending that there are no differences between what women do and what men do in the workplace, or that these differences don&#8217;t affect income.</p>
<p>Even when women and men work at jobs that have the same title — whether doctors, lawyers, economists or whatever — people do not get paid for what their job title is, but for what they actually do.</p>
<p>Women lawyers who are pregnant, or who have young children, may have good reasons to prefer a 9 to 5 job in a government agency to working 60 hours a week in a high-powered law firm. But there is no point comparing male lawyers as a group with female lawyers as a group, if you don&#8217;t look any deeper than job titles.</p>
<p>Unless, of course, you are not looking for the truth, but for political talking points to excite the gullible.</p>
<p>Even when you compare women and men with the &#8220;same&#8221; education, as measured by college or university degrees, the women usually specialize in a very different mix of subjects, with very different income-earning potential.</p>
<p>Although comparing women and men who are in fact comparable is not easy to do, when you look at women and men who are similar on multiple factors, the sex differential in pay shrinks drastically and gets close to the vanishing point. In some categories, women earn more than men with the same range of characteristics.</p>
<p>If the 77 percent statistic was for real, employers would be paying 30 percent more than they had to, every time they hired a man to do a job that a woman could do just as well. Would employers be such fools with their own money? If you think employers don&#8217;t care about paying 30 percent more than they have to, just go ask your boss for a 30 percent raise!</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Glenn Beck exposes Obama&#8217;s fraudulent history and radicalized beliefs:</p>
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		<title>Felon ObamaCare Navigators &#8212; What Could Go Wrong?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2013 04:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government-run health care meets Nigerian-style fraud. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/photo_40.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210625" alt="photo_40" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/photo_40.jpg" width="252" height="189" /></a>In a weird confluence of the nation&#8217;s two most pressing issues &#8212; Obamacare and our insane immigration laws &#8212; this week we found out that the tens of thousands of &#8220;navigators&#8221; hired by the government to enroll people in Obamacare will include convicted felons.</p>
<p>Despite some &#8220;navigators&#8221; having already been exposed as having arrest warrants against them, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has no plans to screen out the criminals. (But rest assured: If your identity is stolen as a result of trying to sign up for Obamacare, no one will be more upset about it than President Obama.)</p>
<p>Maybe it&#8217;s a blessing that the Obamacare website has crashed more often than the Soviet Union&#8217;s commercial air fleet did.</p>
<p>In addition to convicted felons, navigators are drawn from labor unions, community organizers, former ACORN staffers and front-groups for the Democratic National Committee.</p>
<p>Call right up and give all your private financial and medical information to those guys! What could go wrong? (Before Obamacare was even online, Minnesota&#8217;s health exchange emailed the Social Security numbers and other identifying information for about 2,400 Americans to a man applying to be a &#8220;navigator.&#8221;)</p>
<p>If you call today, you can sign up for Obamacare <i>plus</i> learn about a Nigerian prince in exile who&#8217;s willing to share his vast inheritance with you in exchange for your bank account numbers.</p>
<p>Which reminds me, federal health insurance programs have long been a prime target for scammers and con artists.</p>
<p>To much fanfare, in 2006 Medicare announced that only 7 percent of its payments were a result of fraud. Two years later, The New York Times reported that it was actually 31.5 percent &#8212; and that Medicare had aggressively hidden the fraud from outside auditors.</p>
<p>Do you think a privately run insurance company would take three years to notice that one-third of its payouts had been obtained by fraud? But with federal programs, there&#8217;s a powerful incentive not to look for fraud. That would merely vindicate critics of big government!</p>
<p>In 2012, Medicare&#8217;s crack investigators noticed that more than a billion dollars in home health care payments for 2008 had gone to one single county in Florida &#8212; more than all such payments made to the rest of the entire country.</p>
<p>Do you think it would take five years for a private insurer to figure out it had been scammed out of $1 billion by a few health care professionals in one county? Anyone else would notice being stolen from, but not the government. It&#8217;s not their money.</p>
<p>Wherever there&#8217;s a government program, there&#8217;s a gigantic opportunity for criminals. A staggering percentage of the health care workers scamming Medicare and Medicaid are foreign-born &#8212; much higher than their numbers in the medical profession generally.</p>
<p>Thus, in the Department of Justice&#8217;s most recent press releases about criminal convictions for Medicare and Medicaid fraud against the taxpayer &#8212; solely for the four-day period ending Nov. 7 &#8212; we have:</p>
<p>&#8211; Nov. 7, 2013<br />
Mehran Javidan, owner of Acure, a home health care company in Oak Park, Mich., was paid more than $2.2 million from Medicare based on fraudulent physical therapy files he submitted between December 2008 and November 2010.</p>
<p>&#8211; Nov. 7, 2013<br />
Javed Rehman, Tausif Rahman and Muhammad Ahmad &#8212; no relation to the Tsarneav brothers &#8212; fraudulently obtained Medicare beneficiary information to bill Medicare for home health services, swindling approximately $13.8 million from Medicare.</p>
<p>&#8211; Nov. 7, 2013<br />
Eliza Lozano Lumbreras, San Juanita Gallegos Lozano, Manuel Anthony Puig and Romelia Puig used their operation of the Mission Clinic and La Hacienda Family Clinic to submit false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, stealing approximately half a million dollars from the taxpayers between 2001 and 2006.</p>
<p>&#8211; Nov. 6, 2013:<br />
Karen Kallen-Zury, Daisy Miller and Christian Coloma were convicted for receiving approximately $40 million from Medicare for patients not eligible for psychiatric treatment because they were not severely mentally ill.</p>
<p>&#8211; Nov. 6, 2013:<br />
Jose Rojo, Antonio Macli, Jorge Macli and Sandra Huarte in Miami paid patient recruiters to refer ineligible Medicare beneficiaries to their clinic for services that were never provided. They were paid more than $11 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare.</p>
<p>&#8211; Nov. 4, 2013:<br />
Godwin Umotong, Leslie Omagbemi, Munda Massaquoi, Comfort Gates, Ovsanna Agopian and Boghos Babadjanian were convicted of fraudulently billing Medicare of millions of dollars for office visits and diagnostic tests that were never performed, more than $1.3 million of which Medicare paid.</p>
<p>&#8211; Nov. 4, 2013:<br />
William Dale Sidener was convicted of submitting fraudulent bills to Medicare and receiving $4,677.00 in payments for services not performed.</p>
<p>These are Eric Holder&#8217;s press releases, not mine.</p>
<p>Do you notice anything that stands out about the list of convicts? Would any of their names have sounded strange to Ben Franklin? Of 22 people convicted of defrauding American taxpayers by fraudulently billing Medicare or Medicaid, at least 17 have almost comically foreign names.</p>
<p>None of the scammers should be foreigners! We can’t do anything about our native-born crooks, but why are we importing them?</p>
<p>Enormous, unwieldy corrupt government programs run by arrogant bureaucrats would be bad enough in 1950. But after decades of our Third World-only immigration policies, one can&#8217;t help noticing that Medicare and Medicaid are beckoning Disneylands for foreign-born thieves.</p>
<p>The problem isn&#8217;t their complexion, it&#8217;s their culture. In America, we think only dumb people become criminals. That&#8217;s not true in the Third World!</p>
<p>Nigeria, for example, leads the world in criminal enterprises. Every level of Nigerian society is criminal, with the smart ones running Internet scams, the mid-range ones running car theft rings, and the stupid ones engaging in piracy and kidnapping. At the University of Lagos, you can major in credit card fraud.</p>
<p>There were almost no Nigerians in the United States until the 1970s. Today, there are nearly 250,000 Nigerians in the U.S. (committing the cyber-crime Americans just won&#8217;t do!). In 2011, we took in more immigrants from Nigeria than from the United Kingdom (9,246 from the U.K. and 9,344 from Nigeria).</p>
<p>Of course, Obamacare never would have passed without decades of massive immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn&#8217;t change any minds &#8212; they changed the voters. In order to pass Obamacare, Democrats had to bring in the Third World to vote Democratic.</p>
<p>The downside is that the country is now chock-full of people who come from cultures where criminality and government corruption is a way of life &#8212; at the very moment that the country is expanding a government-run health insurance program already shot through with fraud and abuse.</p>
<p>Only confiscatory tax rates can support such a system.</p>
<p>Gosh, I sure hope our new Somali and Nigerian immigrants have German-style rectitude and are very honest about reporting all their income to the government.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/healthcare.gov_2-620x401.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210561" alt="healthcare.gov_2-620x401" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/healthcare.gov_2-620x401-450x291.jpg" width="270" height="175" /></a>The undercover videographer who helped to kill ACORN is now turning his powerful lens on Obamacare &#8220;navigators,&#8221; showing how left-wing groups break the law and defraud taxpayers by pushing Obamacare exchanges.</p>
<p>The undercover investigators of Project Veritas, the nonprofit created by ACORN slayer James O&#8217;Keefe III, are going after the almost 50,000 Obamacare “navigators,” whom the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says are supposed to “serve as an in-person resource for Americans who want additional assistance in shopping for and enrolling in plans” on the Obamacare exchanges. Left-wing activists have scooped up more than $67 million in grants nationwide to hire the navigators, a payoff to ACORN and other radical outfits that helped win Barack Obama the presidency.</p>
<p>Undercover investigators from Project Veritas captured taxpayer-paid Obamacare promoters on video <a href="http://m.nationalreview.com/article/363699/truth-about-navigators-john-fund"><i>telling</i></a> health care insurance applicants to lie about preexisting medical conditions.</p>
<p>A new video shows an Obamacare navigator employed by the National Urban League in Texas counseling an investigator to be untruthful when completing documentation needed to apply for health care insurance on the Obamacare exchanges. The league took in $376,000 from the federal government for its navigator work.</p>
<p>“You lie because your premiums will be higher,” one navigator tells the undercover journalist, who advised the person that he occasionally smokes. “Don’t tell them that. Don’t tell ’em.”</p>
<p>When the investigator pretends to be a low-income university employee with unreported cash income that, if declared, could endanger his eligibility for federal premium subsidies, the navigators advises, “Don’t get yourself in trouble by declaring it now.”</p>
<p>“Yeah, it didn’t happen,” says another navigator. Another adds, “Never report it.”</p>
<p>The video also shows Project Veritas visiting Enroll America, a nationwide nonprofit group that is encouraging millions of Americans to sign up for health insurance coverage on Obamacare exchanges.</p>
<p>As John Fund notes in a National Review Online article, Daniel Clayton of Enroll America says the group is &#8220;purely nonprofit. It’s not partisan, non-political.&#8221; But when Brian Pendleton, also of Enroll America, was introduced at a speaking engagement, Enroll America was called &#8220;the official group for the DNC [Democratic National Committee].&#8221;</p>
<p>O&#8217;Keefe, Fund reports, says Enroll America &#8220;appears to be sharing data and working directly with an explicitly political group called Battleground Texas, activities that [O'Keefe] notes &#8216;are prohibited unless certain conditions are met.&#8217; Adrian Bell, the regional field director for Battleground Texas, proudly notes the group was &#8216;started by President Obama’s national field director&#8217; and is &#8216;dedicated to turning Texas blue.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>The release of the video has already <a href="http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/23950361/one-fired-three-suspended-after-undercover-health-care-video">produced</a><i> </i>promising results. The Urban League of Greater Dallas fired one person and suspended three others shown in the video exhorting health care applicants to lie. The group stated it &#8220;does not condone, nor would we ever sanction, misleading the public or any individual who seeks our assistance about any issue, and particularly in this case, an issue as critical as health care.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) called for the navigators program to be halted after he watched the video. &#8220;This behavior is unacceptable, and is yet another broken piece of a deeply flawed system,&#8221; Cornyn said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have so much footage, so many offices,&#8221; O&#8217;Keefe <a href="https://twitter.com/jamesokeefeiii/status/400087546069536768">wrote</a> of his new Obamacare navigator sting operation on his Twitter account. &#8220;So many employees. So much fraud caught on tape. We&#8217;re going to release them all one by one.&#8221;</p>
<p>O&#8217;Keefe is following the same highly successful rollout strategy the late Andrew Breitbart used in fall 2009 that disseminated O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s videos showing ACORN wrongdoings and kept ACORN employees&#8217; criminal behavior in the forefront of each new day&#8217;s news cycle. Breitbart would release a video showing misdeeds in an ACORN office in one city and then ACORN would lie, denying the behavior or claiming it was carried out by rogue employees. On another day Breitbart would release a video from an ACORN office in another city showing similar unethical or unlawful behavior and ACORN would again offer dishonest spin on the new video. Several more videos were released this way, and each time ACORN shot itself in the foot by trying to explain away what viewers&#8217; lying eyes had observed.</p>
<p>This culminated in a farcical National Press Club<i> </i><a href="http://spectator.org/articles/40701/bertha-lies">media event</a><i> </i>in which ACORN&#8217;s then-chief organizer Bertha Lewis claimed that shadowy forces had somehow conspired to harm her poor little innocent group.</p>
<p>Even left-wing <i>Washington Post</i> columnist Dana Milbank openly mocked Lewis at the time, finding himself in the unaccustomed position of defending Republicans. &#8220;In creativity, the ACORN boss&#8217;s denials were matched only by her assignments of blame &#8230; [s]he blamed her predecessor &#8230;  [s]he blamed the powerful &#8230; [a]nd most of all, she blamed Republicans,&#8221; accusing them, ridiculously, of what she called &#8220;modern-day ACORN McCarthyism.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Breitbart approach paid off, devastating the organized crime syndicate that used to employ Barack Obama as a trainer and as its attorney.</p>
<p>The undercover videos shot by O&#8217;Keefe and his then-partner Hannah Giles in mid-2009 showed ACORN employees across the nation giving helpful advice on how to lie to the government, commit tax fraud, and trick banks into providing loans for brothels catering to pedophiles. The videos helped to kill off the group which had been hit the year before with the revelation of a million-dollar embezzlement scandal and cover-up involving its founder Wade Rathke.</p>
<p>Later that year Congress, which had given ACORN about $79 million in grants over the years, approved a law permanently pulling ACORN off the ever bounteous public teat. The 400,000-member organization filed for bankruptcy in November 2010. ACORN&#8217;s largest division, ACORN Housing, changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America to distance itself from the tarnished ACORN brand but still ended up <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/acorn-housing-finally-in-foreclosure/">collapsing</a> in 2012 despite receiving sizable cash injections from the Obama administration.</p>
<p>Remnants of the ACORN network are involved in providing Obamacare navigators too.</p>
<p>United Labor Unions (ULU) Local 100 in New Orleans, is reportedly providing navigators in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. In 1979, ACORN created the United Labor Unions, which it used to organize low-wage, fast-food, and home healthcare workers in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas.</p>
<p>ULU 100 is headed by ACORN founder Wade Rathke, a corrupt union ringleader who orchestrated massive campaigns involving identity fraud in furtherance of voter fraud and who covered up a million-dollar embezzlement involving pension funds. Now his navigators have unfettered access to confidential information on thousands of people seeking health insurance. ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nonprofit group that knowingly hired felons convicted of identity theft to work on voter registration drives, giving them custody of sensitive voter information.</p>
<p>As I showed in my ACORN/Obama expose, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/vadumbook"><i>Subversion Inc.</i></a>, ACORN is also infamous for hiring felons without bothering to do background checks, storming hospital emergency rooms and city council chambers, using voter fraud to turn graveyards across the nation into Democratic electoral strongholds, using mob violence against bank executives and other shakedown targets, and for ruthlessly exploiting its own employees and going to court to seek an exemption from minimum wage laws.</p>
<p>Fund reports that ULU Local 100 is</p>
<blockquote><p>a &#8220;sub-grantee&#8221; providing navigators for the Southern United Neighborhoods group, which received a $600,678 grant to promote Obamacare enrollment. It also received a $270,193 grant for similar work in Arkansas and a $486,123 grant for Louisiana. Marcel Reid, a former dissident board member of ACORN who broke with the group in 2008 over its questionable practices, told me earlier this year, &#8220;ACORN is forming new groups under new mismanagement, and if Wade Rathke is involved in any of them, it spells trouble.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Enrollment isn&#8217;t going so well at HealthCare.gov.</p>
<p>In the month of October, signups on the Obamacare health insurance exchanges for Medicaid, the joint federal-state welfare program that provides health insurance for the poor, vastly<i> </i><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/31/in-first-month-the-vast-majority-of-obamacare-sign-ups-are-in-medicaid/">outnumbered</a> signups for private insurance.</p>
<p>“When we first saw the numbers, everyone’s eyes kind of bugged out,” said Matt Salo, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors. “Of the people walking through the door, 90 percent are on Medicaid. We’re thinking, what planet is this happening on?”</p>
<p>To make matters worse, flaws in the HealthCare.gov website <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/medicaid-for-al-qaeda-obamacare-flaw-allows-anyone-on-earth-to-fraudulently-enroll-through-healthcare-gov/?singlepage=true">reportedly allow</a><i> </i>ineligible individuals anywhere in the world to sign up for Medicaid.</p>
<p>The exchanges themselves are artificial, bureaucrat-created cartels that merely mimic free, competitive markets, perhaps well enough to dupe some people into believing they&#8217;re engaging in actual eBay- or Amazon-style commerce. It&#8217;s not really shopping, of course, if you have a gun to your head.</p>
<p>Speaking of guns to the head, felons may tapping into confidential personal data stored at HealthCare.gov.</p>
<p>Responding to questions from Sen. Cornyn during a recent congressional hearing, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said it is “possible” that convicted criminals are among Obamacare navigators, who have access to Americans&#8217; personal information.</p>
<p>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t it true that there is no federal requirement for navigators to undergo a criminal background check,&#8221; said Cornyn, &#8220;even though they will receive sensitive personal information from the individuals they help to sign-up up for the Affordable Care Act?”</p>
<p>Sebelius replied, “That is true. States could add an additional background checks and other features, but it is not part of the federal requirement.”</p>
<p>Cornyn asked, “So a convicted felon could be a navigator and could acquire sensitive personal information from an individual unbeknownst to them?”</p>
<p>Sebelius answered, “That is possible.”</p>
<p>As <i>FrontPage</i> previously predicted, enrollment has turned into a dangerous free-for-all because Obamacare &#8220;navigators&#8221; are barely regulated at all. By the way, the only reason there are any &#8220;navigators&#8221; is to help the Left, as HHS Secretary Sebelius has more or less admitted. Imposing rules would only interfere with community organizers&#8217; ability to wreak havoc and spread the gospel of so-called social justice.</p>
<p>Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal previously<i> </i><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/acorn-crooks-on-the-march-for-obamacare/">warned</a> that the Obamacare navigator program, like all of Obamacare, is deeply flawed.</p>
<p>&#8220;‘Navigator’ is a crafty name, but in reality, there are very few restrictions on who they are, and what exactly they are supposed to be doing,&#8221; Jindal says. &#8220;‘Navigators’ are supposed to be hired to help consumers understand the law and the insurance coverage provisions in the new health exchanges. Sounds like a job for a rocket scientist.&#8221; He continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>The &#8220;navigators&#8221; are prohibited from having financial ties to an insurance company, but other than that there are few constraints. Union organizers and community activists are among the types that are allowed to be hired as &#8220;navigators,&#8221; and having prior experience working in the health care field doesn’t seem to necessarily be a pre-requisite for the job. I wonder what percentage of these &#8220;navigators&#8221; will be partisan Democrats?</p></blockquote>
<p>Sebelius<i> </i><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/community-organizes-mobilize-to-save-obamacare/">has been looking</a><i> </i>to radical left-wing community organizers to fill navigator ranks since at least early last year. In April 2012 she tried to recruit activists at the national convention of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN).</p>
<p>“In our country what we know is health care inequality [has been] one of the most persistent forms of injustice but over the past three years, as Rev. Sharpton reminded us, we have begun to turn the tide,” Sebelius said at the time. “Now is not the time to turn back.”</p>
<p>The Left has spent the last few weeks rushing to Obamacare&#8217;s defense as implementation of the law flames out spectacularly in real time.</p>
<p>Pseudojournalist Alex Seitz-Wald, whose calling is to lie about conservatives and devise new and inventive spin to defend professional leftists, previously lied again and again about ACORN and the O&#8217;Keefe sting, falsely accusing O&#8217;Keefe of performing misleading edits on the ACORN videos in 2009.</p>
<p>Now,<i> </i><a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care/the-fight-of-obamacare-s-navigators-against-republican-hurdles-20131030">according to</a><i> </i>Seitz-Wald, it&#8217;s <i>Republicans&#8217;</i> fault that Obamacare navigators are corrupt and incompetent.</p>
<p>GOPers are throwing up unnecessary roadblocks meant to stop navigators from performing their noble, selfless tasks, the former Salon reporter writes.</p>
<blockquote><p>But whether by fees, background checks, tests, extra training, certifications, threats of civil penalties, or delays, Republican legislatures and officials in at least 17 states across the country have thrown up all manner of bureaucratic roadblocks in front of the program. The officials say the regulations are necessary to protect consumers and their personal information, but health care reform advocates say the regulations, adopted only in states controlled by Republicans, are just part of a multipronged campaign to obstruct the implementation of the Affordable Care Act at every turn.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nice try.</p>
<p>Thanks to the excellent, public-spirited work of James O&#8217;Keefe and Project Veritas, Seitz-Wald and the other paid professional liars of the left-wing legacy media are going to have to spin harder than that.</p>
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		<title>Medicare Spent $28 Million on Drugs for 4,139 Illegal Aliens</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2013 22:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That comes out to around $7,000 per illegal alien,]]></description>
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<p>That comes out to around $7,000 per<del> illegal alien, </del>no sorry,<del> undocumented immigran</del>t, nope beautiful unlicensed DREAMER. But there are just some jobs that Americans won&#8217;t do. Like <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=212044">illegally collect $28 million in Medicare</a> Part D prescription drugs.</p>
<p>Immigration reform now. Alongside medical reform. <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/feds-spent-29-million-prescription-drugs-4139-illegal-aliens">Because $28 million is just too little</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p> The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) spent almost $29 million to cover Medicare Part D prescription drugs for 4,139 individuals “unlawfully present” in the U.S. and thus ineligible to receive federal health care benefits, according to an audit by Daniel Levinson, inspector general of the Department of Health &amp; Human Services.</p>
<p>Medicare Parts A and B cover hospitalization, skilled nursing care, doctor visits, and other medical services and supplies. The IG previously reported in January that CMS had also paid $91.6 million to health care providers to cover 2,600 ineligible illegal aliens.</p>
<p>The unallowable payments were made by CMS despite the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which prohibits illegal aliens from receiving federal health care benefits, and CMS’ own 2003 memo warning: “Make no payments for Medicare services furnished to an alien beneficiary who is not lawfully present in the United States.”</p>
<p>The IG recommended that CMS “develop and implement controls to ensure that Medicare does not pay for prescription drugs for unlawfully present beneficiaries” by preventing them from enrolling, disenrolling those already in the Medicare Part D system, and “automatically rejecting PDE records submitted by sponsors for prescription drugs provided to this population.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Don&#8217;t worry. Obama and the Republican Amnesty crowd already have this covered.</p>
<p>And if only 4,139 illegal aliens racked up $28 million in Medicare Part D bills, imagine how much 12 million illegal aliens will rack up?</p>
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		<title>Congressionally Duped Americans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2013 04:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Williams]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debunking government's Social Security mistruths. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/images.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-209856" alt="images" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/images.jpg" width="220" height="146" /></a>Last week&#8217;s column, &#8220;Is There a Way Out?&#8221;, generated quite a few responses, some a bit angry. Some people were offended by my reference to Social Security and Medicare as entitlements or handouts. They said that they worked for 45 years and paid into Social Security and Medicare and how dare I refer to the money they now receive as an entitlement. These people have been duped by Congress and shouldn&#8217;t be held totally accountable for such a belief. Let&#8217;s examine the plethora of congressional Social Security lies. I&#8217;ll leave the Medicare lies for another column.</p>
<p>The Social Security pamphlet of 1936 read, &#8220;Beginning November 24, 1936, the United States Government will set up a Social Security account for you. &#8230; The checks will come to you as a right&#8221; (http://tinyurl.com/maskyul). Therefore, Americans have been led to believe that Social Security is like a retirement account and money placed in it is their property. The fact of the matter belies that belief.</p>
<p>A year after the Social Security Act&#8217;s passage, it was challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court, in Helvering v. Davis. The court held that Social Security is not an insurance program, saying, &#8220;The proceeds of both employee and employer taxes are to be paid into the Treasury like any other internal revenue generally, and are not earmarked in any way.&#8221; In a 1960 case, Flemming v. Nestor, the Supreme Court held, &#8220;To engraft upon the Social Security system a concept of &#8216;accrued property rights&#8217; would deprive it of the flexibility and boldness in adjustment to ever-changing conditions which it demands.&#8221;</p>
<p>Decades after Americans had been duped into thinking that the money taken from them was theirs, the Social Security Administration belatedly — and very quietly — tried to clean up its history of deception. Its website explains, &#8220;Entitlement to Social Security benefits is not (a) contractual right.&#8221; It adds: &#8220;There has been a temptation throughout the program&#8217;s history for some people to suppose that their FICA payroll taxes entitle them to a benefit in a legal, contractual sense.</p>
<p>&#8230; Congress clearly had no such limitation in mind when crafting the law&#8221; (http://tinyurl.com/49p8fl2). The Social Security Administration failed to mention that it was the SSA itself, along with Congress, that created the lie that &#8220;the checks will come to you as a right.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s my question to those who protest that their Social Security checks are not an entitlement or handouts: Seeing as Congress has not &#8220;set up a Social Security account for you&#8221; containing your Social Security and Medicare &#8220;contributions,&#8221; where does the money you receive come from? I promise you it&#8217;s neither Santa Claus nor the tooth fairy. The only way Congress can send checks to Social Security and Medicare recipients is to take the earnings of a person currently in the workforce. The way Congress conceals its Ponzi scheme is to dupe Social Security and Medicare recipients into thinking that it&#8217;s their money that is put away and invested. Therefore, Social Security recipients want their monthly check and are oblivious about who has to pay and the pending economic calamity that awaits future generations because of the federal government&#8217;s $100 trillion-plus unfunded liability, of which Social Security and Medicare are the major parts.</p>
<p>Pointing to the congressional lies and future economic chaos is not the same as calling for a cessation of checks going out to recipients. Instead, it&#8217;s a call for the recognition that we&#8217;ve made a mistake that needs to be corrected while there&#8217;s time to avoid a calamity. It&#8217;s also a call for us to recognize that we all share in the blame and hence the burden to make it right. Politicians have little interest in doing something about an economic calamity that will happen in 2030 or 2040; they only care about the next election. Older Americans, who own most of the political clout, must lead the fight to get Congress to do something about entitlement programs. Of course, the alternative is continued belief in the Social Security and Medicare myth and the heck with future generations.</p>
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		<title>The White House Fable Factory</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 04:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phony tales built Obamacare. Real stories will bring it down.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/o-OBAMACARE-MEDIA-WAR-facebook.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-209768" alt="Brack Obama, Kathleen Sebelius" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/o-OBAMACARE-MEDIA-WAR-facebook-450x345.jpg" width="270" height="207" /></a>Now that true horror stories of Obamacare&#8217;s wrecking ball are finally reaching the public, the White House doesn&#8217;t like &#8220;anecdotes.&#8221; Live by tale-telling; die by tale-telling.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney huffed that stage-four gallbladder cancer survivor Edie Littlefield Sundby&#8217;s personal account in The Wall Street Journal of seeing her health insurance plan canceled and her access to doctors cut off was &#8220;sensational.&#8221; Not a shred of compassion for her predicament. No sorrow for her loss. Must. Attack. Messenger.</p>
<p>There are millions out there like Sundby who are using Facebook, Twitter, Twitchy.com and a new website called MyCancellation.com to share their plights. White House flacks and hacks are working overtime to &#8220;debunk&#8221; their experiences, bash insurance companies and deride individual market consumers losing their plans as stupid dupes whose stories don&#8217;t add up.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the thing. This Alinsky-steeped administration has relied on an endless stream of sensationalized, phony personal dramas to sell Obamacare. Last month, Organizing for Action (previously Obama for America) promoted the &#8220;success story&#8221; of Chad Henderson, a supposedly random young person who miraculously enrolled in Obamacare while everyone else in America experienced major tech meltdowns and sticker shock.</p>
<p>Turned out Lying Chad was actually an OFA volunteer who hadn&#8217;t really enrolled in Obamacare yet because he was &#8220;joking.&#8221; No matter. Yesterday, Obama appeared before OFA to solicit even more stories from the group to help propagandize Obamacare. A refresher course on the White House Fable Factory&#8217;s greatest hits:</p>
<p>—Stanley Ann Dunham. Obama cited his mom&#8217;s deathbed fight with her insurer several times over the years to support the Obamacare ban on pre-existing condition exclusions by insurers. During a 2008 debate, he shared her plight: &#8220;For my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they&#8217;re saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don&#8217;t have to pay her treatment, there&#8217;s something fundamentally wrong about that.&#8221; But New York Times reporter Janny Scott discovered that Dunham&#8217;s health insurer had in fact reimbursed her medical expenses with nary an objection. The actual coverage dispute centered on a separate disability insurance policy.</p>
<p>—Otto Raddatz. In 2009, Obama publicized the plight of this Illinois cancer patient, who supposedly died after he was dropped from his Fortis/Assurant Health insurance plan when his insurer discovered an unreported gallstone the patient hadn&#8217;t known about.</p>
<p>The truth? He got the treatment he needed in 2005 and lived for nearly four more years.</p>
<p>—Robin Beaton. Also in 2009, Obama claimed Beaton, a breast cancer patient, lost her insurance after &#8220;she forgot to declare a case of acne.&#8221; In fact, she failed to disclose a previous heart condition and did not list her weight accurately, but had her insurance restored anyway after intense public lobbying.</p>
<p>—John Brodniak. A 23-year-old unemployed Oregon sawmill worker, Brodniak&#8217;s health woes were spotlighted by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof as a textbook argument for Obamacare. Brodniak reportedly was diagnosed with cavernous hemangioma, a neurological condition, and was allegedly turned away by emergency room doctors. Kristof called the case &#8220;monstrous&#8221; and decried opponents of the Democrats&#8217; health care proposals as heartless murderers. The truth? Brodniak not only had coverage through Oregon&#8217;s Medicaid program, but was also a neurology patient at the prestigious Oregon Health and Science University in Portland (a safety-net institution that accepts all Medicaid patients). Kristof never retracted the legend.</p>
<p>—Marcelas Owens. An 11-year-old boy from Seattle, Owens took a coveted spot next to the president in March 2010 when Obamacare was signed into law. Marcelas&#8217; 27-year-old mother, Tiffany Owens, died of pulmonary hypertension. The family said the single mother of three lost her job as a fast-food manager and lost her insurance. She died in 2007 after receiving emergency care and treatment throughout her illness. Progressive groups (for whom Marcelas&#8217; relatives worked) dubbed Marcelas an &#8220;insurance abuse survivor.&#8221; But there wasn&#8217;t a shred of evidence that any insurer had &#8220;abused&#8221; the boy or his mom. Further, Washington State already offered a plethora of existing government assistance programs to laid-off and unemployed workers like Marcelas&#8217; mom. The family and its public relations agents never explained why she didn&#8217;t enroll.</p>
<p>—Natoma Canfield. The White House made the Ohio cancer patient a poster child for Obamacare in 2010 after she wrote a letter complaining about skyrocketing premiums and the prospect of losing her home. After Obama gave Canfield a shout-out at a health care rally in Strongsville, Ohio, and promised to control costs, officials at the renowned Cleveland Clinic, which is treating her, made clear that they would &#8220;not put a lien on her home&#8221; and that she was eligible for a wide variety of state aid and private charity care.</p>
<p>Phony manufactured tales built Obamacare. Real stories of Obamacare wreckage will bring it down.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Volpe]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Republicans' warning to America. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/fraud-scam.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-205412" alt="Definition of fraud" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/fraud-scam.jpg" width="270" height="179" /></a>A congressional report, issued by Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on September 18, 2013, is warning that a key portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) program is being mismanaged and is under threat for abuse and fraud. This report follows another report on the same Obamacare program which also warned the program was susceptible to fraud.</p>
<p>Exchanges were set up in Obamacare to provide a marketplace for individuals not covered by their employer’s health insurance or by Medicare/Medicaid. These exchanges were supposed to be set up by each individual state, but about half refused and forced the federal government to set up exchanges in those states.</p>
<p>“Navigators” were written into the law to be individuals who would help consumers navigate the exchanges and help consumers understand their option to choose the best insurance plan. Because half the states didn’t set up exchanges, “navigators” weren’t set up either. As a result, the Obama administration has set up the federal program of “assisters” a group of federally funded individuals who will help consumers navigate exchanges to find the best deal.</p>
<p>According to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, there is clear language in Obamacare which specifies that only state, not federal funds, be used to fund the “navigator” program, making this new program an end run around the clear language of the statute, according to the report.</p>
<p><a href="http://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-report-on-obamacare-enrollment-programs-reveals-risk-of-fraud-misinformation/">In a press release,</a> the Committee identified five specific areas of concern for fraud in the “navigator” program: 1) The Administration created the Assisters program without congressional approval, 2) top HHS officials have admitted that the enrollment outreach programs are prime targets for fraud, 3) consumers have no way to verify that someone taking their application or encouraging enrollment is actually a Navigator or Assister, 4) HHS officials were concerned about security risks, but did not look into whether or not they could require background checks, 5) HHS has criticized direct phone calls, door-to-door solicitation, but has not banned them, and in some states, Navigators and Assisters are paid based on the number of persons they enroll, creating a conflict of interest.</p>
<p>The report also pointed out that navigators won’t go through a background check, be required to only have twenty hours of training, and have access to all sorts of personal information which they’ll be authorized to enter into a central database. The congressional report said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Individual Navigators and Assisters will have access to many applicants’ personally identifiable information (PII), including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, email addresses, and in many cases the PII for other members of the applicant’s household. Such information may also be stored on computers and scanners owned by Navigator and Assister organizations. Furthermore, unlike agents and brokers, Navigators and Assisters bear no personal liability if they give taxpayers misinformation that damages their financial interests.</p></blockquote>
<p>An email to the HHS media relations department for comment on this story was left unreturned.</p>
<p>The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wasn’t the only committee expressing concern about the navigator program. <a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/files/letters/20130920CCIIO.pdf">Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee also fired off a letter last week to Gary Cohen,</a> the Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid, expressing their concerns that the navigator grant program was also ripe for fraud.</p>
<p>This is not the first time that fraud has become an issue in the health care exchanges. <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/volpe/how-obamacare-will-expose-americans-personal-information/">In August an HHS Office of Inspector General report warned that security in the information technology</a> system that would put all health care plans in each exchange on-line was so far behind schedule in its implementation that the final test would only happen on September 30, the day before the exchanges were due to be fully operational.</p>
<p>Separately, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/volpe/obamacares-unraveling/">the $2 billion loan program to augment Health Care</a> Co-ops is now the subject of four separate investigations with allegations of fraud being so systemic the program has been shut down entirely while the investigations go on. Health care Co-ops are non-profits, which would offer health insurance in certain state exchanges to compete with for profit health insurance providers.</p>
<p>With less than a week before Obamacare is to be fully implemented, most news stories are concerned with the economic effects of the law. Fraud, identity theft, and other crimes should be of concern as well since this complicated program is being put together on the fly, with all sorts of individuals being hired to help implement, whether they are qualified to do so or not.</p>
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		<title>Obama Express Owner Accused of Food Stamp Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[. Steal 2 million dollars  and you go to jail. Steal 6 trillion dollars and you get a second term.]]></description>
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<p>I guess it&#8217;s true what they say. <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/09/video-shocker-obama-express-store-owner-charged-with-food-stamp-fraud/">Steal 2 million dollars  and you go to jail</a>. Steal 6 trillion dollars and you get a second term.</p>
<blockquote><p>On September 17, WBAL reported that nine retailers in Baltimore County had been arrested for illegally redeeming food stamps for cash and kicking back a portion to food stamp recipients. The retailers did not sell them any merchandise or food.</p>
<p>One of those indicted was one Abdullah Aljaradi who allegedly obtained $2 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) cash from Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards.</p>
<p>Abdullah Aljaradi, age 51, of Baltimore; Second Obama Express and D&amp;M Deli and Grocery, 901 Harlem Avenue, Suite A and B, respectively. From October 2010 through July 2013, Aljaradi allegedly obtained more than $2 million in payments for food sales that never occurred.</p></blockquote>
<p>He should have just called it a stimulus program.</p>
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		<title>Atty General Holder Inflated Mortgage Fraud Prosecutions by 80%</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Unfortunately it <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-11/eric-holder-owes-the-american-people-an-apology.html">seems like there&#8217;s no one to prosecute him</a> for fraud. Or for killing a whole bunch of Mexicans.</p>
<p>he Justice Department made a long-overdue disclosure late Friday: Last year when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder boasted about the successes that a high-profile task force racked up pursuing mortgage fraud, the numbers he trumpeted were grossly overstated.</p>
<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re not talking small differences here. Originally the Justice Department said 530 people were charged criminally as part of a year-long initiative by the multi-agency Mortgage Fraud Working Group. It now says the actual figure was 107 &#8212; or 80 percent less. Holder originally said the defendants had victimized more than 73,000 American homeowners. That number was revised to 17,185, while estimates of homeowner losses associated with the frauds dropped to $95 million from $1 billion.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even Hillary Clinton can spot the difference between 95 million and 1 billion. Even Hillary.</p>
<p>So how did Holder pull off the scam? In the time-honored government fashion of moving a lot of numbers around and taking credit for other people&#8217;s work.</p>
<blockquote><p>Some of the cases included in the Justice Department&#8217;s tally occurred before the initiative began in October 2011. At least one was filed more than two years before President Barack Obama took office.</p></blockquote>
<p>Speaking of crooks in high places&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>When Holder first trotted out these figures last October, he bragged during a press conference about the results of the government&#8217;s &#8220;Distressed Homeowner Initiative,&#8221; which he called “a groundbreaking, yearlong mortgage-fraud enforcement effort” and “the first ever to focus exclusively on crimes targeting homeowners.” Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan joined him at the press conference.</p>
<p>What a charade. No wonder the government found it so difficult to bring a meaningful number of accounting-fraud cases against bank executives after the financial crisis. Its own books were cooked.</p></blockquote>
<p>But every high official gets to make one random mistake, right? It&#8217;s not like there&#8217;s a pattern.</p>
<blockquote><p>This was the second time, mind you, that Holder&#8217;s Justice Department had pulled a stunt like this. In December 2010, Holder held a press conference to tout a supposed sweep by the president’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force called &#8220;Operation Broken Trust.&#8221; (The mortgage-fraud program was part of the same task force.) As with the mortgage-fraud initiative, <a href="http://www.stopfraud.gov/news/news-12062010-2.html" rel="external">Broken Trust</a> wasn’t actually a sweep. All the Justice Department did was lump together a bunch of small-fry, penny-ante fraud cases that had nothing to do with one another. Then it held a press gathering.</p></blockquote>
<p>Broken Trust. What an appropriate name.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Obama administration has been on the defensive for years over its lack of decisive, high-profile prosecutions related to the financial crisis</p></blockquote>
<p>It can&#8217;t prosecute its own donors&#8230; can it.</p>
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		<title>Billionaire Swindlers Line Up for ObamaCare Cash</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 04:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Volpe]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why corporate con-artists under investigation are preparing for a windfall. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/health-care-costs-money.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196978" alt="health-care-costs-money" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/health-care-costs-money-450x306.jpg" width="270" height="184" /></a>An information technology (IT) company in line to bid on billions in new contracts as a result of ObamaCare is the subject of a growing list of scandals and investigations in which its alleged that, among a number of abuses, the company has produced low ball bids in order to win Medicaid related contracts, only to create overages that balloon the expense of the project as it is implemented.</p>
<p>The name of the company is Client Network Services, Inc (CNSI) and it’s headquartered in Maryland. The company will be able to bid on billions in new ObamaCare-related IT contracts because, in order for states to receive new grants for expanded Medicaid rolls, ObamaCare requires states to have IT systems that are able to share data at so-called finger-tip access. Because most states have antiquated systems, such overhauls will often require the assistance of companies like CNSI.</p>
<p>In March, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal <a href="http://www.wbrz.com/news/jindal-cancels-medicaid-contract-under-grand-jury-review/">canceled one such contract</a> between CNSI and his state after it came to light that a federal grand jury <a href="http://theadvocate.com/home/5500946-125/federal-grand-jury-looks-at">was investigating</a> the relationship between one of his top aides and CNSI.</p>
<p>Front Page Magazine interviewed Tom Aswell, <a href="http://louisianavoice.com/">a blogger</a> and author from Louisiana with more than three decades of news experience. <a href="http://louisianavoice.com/2013/06/09/la-not-the-first-state-in-which-cnsi-contracts-have-come-under-scrutiny-but-youll-need-a-program-to-follow-players/">Aswell</a> has been writing about the case from the beginning.</p>
<p>Aswell said he first became aware something was amiss in June 2011, when Bruce Greenstein went before the Louisiana Senate Governmental Affairs Committee to be confirmed as the secretary of Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH), the equivalent of the US Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary.</p>
<p>During the proceedings, things became contentious and confusing when Greenstein refused to divulge the recipient of a contract to upgrade the State of Louisiana’s antiquated computer system, which electronically processed Medicaid health care claims.</p>
<p>Greenstein went back and forth with lawmakers for quite a while before he finally admitted it was CNSI, his own former employer. He assured the state legislators at that hearing that he created a firewall between himself and his former employer during the contractual process.</p>
<p>That turned out not to be true, and, instead, in March 2013, news was leaked that a federal grand jury was investigating the potentially illegal relationship between Greenstein and CNSI during the process in which this contract was awarded.</p>
<p>Once that came to light, not only did Jindal cancel the contract, <a href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/03/bruce_greenstein_resigns_in_wa.html">but Greenstein resigned shortly after.</a> Aswell said that all sorts of issues were raised with CNSI’s bid ($194 million), and a number of people in the media raised concerns that CNSI would not be able to achieve the contract for the pre-arranged price.</p>
<p>In 2012, Southeast Michigan Healthcare Information Exchange (SEMHIE), a multi-stakeholder initiative trying to integrate a health information exchange throughout southeast Michigan, <a href="http://forthegoodofillinois.org/wp-content/uploads/Michigan-CNSI-Lawsuit.pdf">sued CNSI for breach of contract</a> after CNSI allegedly failed to provide SEMHIE with prior agreed upon software. An email was left unreturned by SEMHIE for this story. Jennifer Bahrami, press secretary for CNSI, also didn’t respond to an email for comment for this story.</p>
<p>In 2011, CNSI was accused of lowballing a contract in South Dakota, only to have expenses increase exponentially as the project wore on. A local story on the affair <a href="http://articles.aberdeennews.com/2011-06-27/news/29715374_1_medicaid-computer-system-new-system-medicare-and-medicaid-services">explained</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The South Dakota Department of Social Services has paid $49.7 million so far for a new Medicaid processing system that at this point remains inoperable.</p>
<p>The original contract was for $62.7 million, but the new system is now expected to cost far in excess of $80 million to complete and will take two to three more years to get running, according to court documents filed as part of a lawsuit between the contractor and the department.</p></blockquote>
<p>The most in-depth investigation of CNSI occurred in Maine in 2006, and it was conducted by the magazine CIO, a journal for IT professionals. <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/20133/Maine_s_Medicaid_Mistakes?page=8&amp;taxonomyId=3198">In that piece,</a> CIO concluded that not only did CNSI’s system end up costing 20% more than the company&#8217;s originally bid, but its implementation was a logistical nightmare.</p>
<blockquote><p>The department’s Bureau of Medical Services, which runs the Medicaid program, was being deluged with hundreds of calls from doctors, dentists, hospitals, health clinics and nursing homes, angry because their claims were not being paid. The new system had placed most of the rejected claims in a ‘suspended’ file for forms that contained errors.</p>
<p>Tens of thousands of claims representing millions of dollars were being left in limbo.</p>
<p>About 15 IT staffers and about 4 dozen employees from CNSI, the contractor hired to develop the system—were working 12-hour days, writing software fixes and performing adjustments so fast that Hitchings knew that key project management guidelines were beginning to fall by the wayside. And nothing seemed to help.</p></blockquote>
<p>Because CNSI is a private company, their financials aren’t published, and thus, the exact amount of business it does with our government isn’t known. Furthermore, because most IT-related Medicaid contracts are done on the state level, tracking the amount of IT business that ObamaCare will create is also very difficult to do. It is clear that one company that should be happy with the implementation of ObamaCare is CNSI because it is without a doubt a boon to a company like it. The company’s behavior before and during the implementation of ObamaCare should therefore be watched very carefully and Front Page Magazine intends to do so.</p>
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		<title>Turning a Blind Eye to Immigration Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2013 04:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Volpe]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new internal report reveals startling information about corruption in the immigration system. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Notario.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196489" alt="Notario" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Notario.jpg" width="230" height="154" /></a>A new report issued by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHSOIG) accuses a small but critical agency within DHS of once again turning a blind eye to fraud.</span></b></p>
<p>The name of the agency is US Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS), and it is important because it is responsible for processing Visa and other applications. For example, it is USCIS that is approving the application of every single &#8220;DREAMer&#8221; under the Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy.</p>
<p>USCIS has already been the subject of two scandals involving fraud prevention under the leadership of its current director, Alejandro Mayorkas, and this new report has opened the door to a third scandal.</p>
<p>The investigation measured the effectiveness of the fraud prevention system for the family-based immigration system. The family-based immigration system is critical because, according to the most recent figures from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Immigration Statistics, 74% of all legal immigration admittance in 2012 (roughly 1 million people) was of the family-based variety.</p>
<p>While the report concluded that USCIS case workers were effectively spotting incidents of fraud, the report also concluded that managers weren’t putting in proper protocols to record and track individuals accused of defrauding DHS, or any other agency for that matter. As the report explained:</p>
<blockquote><p>FDNS personnel did not record in appropriate electronic databases all petitions and applications denied, revoked, or rescinded because of fraud. Supervisors also did not review the data entered into the databases to monitor case resolution. Without accurate data and adequate supervisory review, USCIS may have limited its ability to track, monitor, and identify inadmissible aliens, and to detect and deter immigration benefit fraud.</p></blockquote>
<p>This problem is not new. In fact, the Sub-committee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement in the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on this very issue <a href="http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/printers/112th/112-94_72904.PDF">on February 5, 2012.</a> That hearing was titled “Safeguarding the Integrity of the Immigration Benefits Adjudication Process” and during that hearing, Texas Congressman Lamar Smith warned how dangerous all these mistakes can be.</p>
<blockquote><p>There are foreign nationals who will do and say whatever they think will get their benefits approved—forge documents, get bogus employers to sponsor them, and even deny their terrorist ties. So we must have policies in place that help ensure we will not admit those who intend to cause us harm or make a mockery of our immigration system. We need immigration policy designed to protect American workers and taxpayers.</p></blockquote>
<p>It should be noted that the Tsarnaev brothers, who bombed the Boston Marathon, slipped through the cracks due to similar oversights to what Rep. Smith describes. In their case, previous run-ins with federal law enforcement were overlooked because their names were spelled incorrectly. In the case of USCIS, the names of about half the cases aren’t even entered into the system at all.</p>
<p>In a statement given exclusively to Front Page Magazine, USCIS Press Secretary Christopher Bentley defended the record of the organization in the area of fraud prevention.</p>
<blockquote><p>USCIS takes immigration fraud seriously and coordinates with other agencies to swiftly rescind or revoke benefits obtained through willful misrepresentation. At the same time, we ensure that individuals who are eligible for benefits are not harmed by the unscrupulous actions of others.  Since its creation in January 2010, the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) has, in addition to many other enhancements, increased the scope and frequency of vetting for immigration benefit applicants, enhanced biometrics screening, established a new national security branch in its field operations, and increased its staffing of Fraud Detection and National Security officers by approximately 20%[.]</p></blockquote>
<p>Under Alejandro Mayorkas, USCIS has developed a pattern of being soft on fraud. This is the third scandal involving USCIS that involves lax fraud prevention. <a href="http://www.cis.org/Announcements/2012KatzAward">The first </a>such instance eventually became the feature for an award-winning 2012 series for the Daily.</p>
<p>According to that series, higher ups in USCIS were pressuring case workers to approve Visa applications at far too quick a pace. When at least one complained, USCIS targeted that person, and the whistleblower, Christina Poulos, was demoted.</p>
<p>In the second case, an astonishing <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/22/995-of-illegal-immigrants-get-approval-for-legal-s/?page=all">99.5% of all DACA</a> applications were approved. If something like the Senate&#8217;s new amnesty bill becomes law, USCIS will be in a position to process tens of millions of new applications.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Mayorkas">Mayorkas, who has been running USCIS since early 2009</a>, has his own checkered past that started long before his troubled reign as head of USCIS. In fact, a <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15651.html">Politico article</a> from 2010 suggested that Mayorkas&#8217;s appointment was political in nature, payback for Mayorkas being a significant bundler for Obama’s 2008 campaign.</p>
<p>The same article repeated publicly available information about his time as a US Attorney in the Clinton Administration. Mayorkas recommended the pardon of Carlos Vignali, a politically connected convicted drug dealer who was eventually set free by then-President Bill Clinton in his final days in office.</p>
<p>It’s clear that for a comprehensive immigration reform bill to be successful, the organization in charge of processing millions of new applications must be competent. It’s clear that Alejandro Mayorkas has built a long resume for incompetence and/or corruption in terms of fraud prevention. So, before anyone can expect immigration reform to be successful, Alejandro Mayorkas must be removed as Director of USCIS.</p>
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		<title>ObamaCare Could Result in $250 Billion Tax Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323734304578542981761557180.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop">ObamaCare really is the gift that keeps on giving. </a>And giving. And I do mean &#8220;gift&#8221; in the German sense of poison.</p>
<blockquote><p>Under the Affordable Care Act, premium subsidies—tax credits in ObamaCare designed to defray the cost of purchasing health insurance—will go to some seven million tax filers and flow to households earning as much as $94,000 a year.</p>
<p>The credits are both advanceable and refundable, meaning the IRS will pay them first and verify the claims for them later, what some call &#8220;pay and chase.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Look at the Earned Income Tax Credit. Whether you like this refundable credit or not, the Treasury Department&#8217;s inspector general for tax administration reported in April that improper payments account for 21% to 25% of total EITC payments in 2012.</p>
<p>Take the percentage of improper EITC payments and apply it to the approximate $1 trillion we&#8217;ll spend on ObamaCare premium credits in the decade beginning 2014. The math shows that we could see between $210 billion and $250 billion distributed to those who shouldn&#8217;t get it—because the IRS has no system in place to verify reported household income.</p></blockquote>
<p>The wealth redistribution train never stops. We&#8217;re entering a red reality where the system exists only to be gamed.</p>
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		<title>A Federal Takeover of Elections?</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/vote.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-188725" alt="vote" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/vote-450x299.jpg" width="270" height="179" /></a>On March 28, President Obama issued <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/28/executive-order-establishment-presidential-commission-election-administr">Executive Order 13639</a>, establishing a Presidential Commission on Election Administration &#8220;in order to promote the efficient administration of Federal elections and to improve the experience of all voters.&#8221; The ostensible premise behind this effort is the idea that some voters were forced to wait too long in line to cast their ballots. Yet a growing number of critics see something entirely different: they see this as an attempt to <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/15007-does-obama-s-election-commission-signal-federal-takeover-of-elections">initiate</a> a federal takeover of elections.</p>
<p>Former Justice Department official J. Christian Adams characterizes the president&#8217;s effort as a &#8220;federal solution in search of a problem,&#8221; which as foreshadowed in Obama&#8217;s State of the Union address. He spoke of a woman named <a href="http://floppingaces.net/2013/02/13/desiline-victor-sorry-to-burst-the-happy-bubble-but/">Desiline Victor,</a> a 102-year-old Florida resident forced to show up twice on October 28, the first day of early voting, due to the long lines she encountered. “When she arrived at her polling place, she was told the wait to vote might be six hours,” Obama said, “And as time ticked by, her concern was not with her tired body or aching feet, but whether folks like her would get to have their say.”</p>
<p>Like many of Obama&#8217;s efforts to tug at the emotional heartstrings of Americans, the devil is in the details. In general, the lines on the first day of early voting are usually much longer than those encountered on Election Day. This was confirmed by an MIT study that revealed the average wait for voting on Election Day was seven minutes shorter than the wait on other days. Moreover, Florida is somewhat notorious for loading up ballots with lengthy referendums that voters ought to review before they show up to the polls, but don&#8217;t in many cases. Adams also points out that lengthy waits to vote &#8220;occur frequently in large cities where elections are administered by Democrats.&#8221;</p>
<p>On his website, he gets to the crux of the issue. &#8220;The federal government is forever searching for more ways to snatch power from the states; that’s the nature of the beast,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;No Republicans should acquiesce to another federal power grab over state elections&#8211; dispersing power over elections means that no one entity, or person, can easily manipulate the process. The Founders knew that decentralized control over the process helps preserve individual liberty.&#8221;</p>
<p>Whether manipulating the process is part of the agenda remains to be seen. The Board&#8217;s two chairmen, election lawyers Robert Bauer and Ben Ginsberg, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/us/politics/opposing-election-lawyers-to-lead-obama-voting-panel.html?_r=0">represented</a> Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, respectively, during the 2012 election. Obama contends that Ginsberg, a Republican, would give the Board credibility and ensure its bipartisan nature. The president will also <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/03/28/obama-executive-order-creates-commission-on-election-administration/">name</a> the seven other members of the Board. According to the order, they will be people with &#8220;knowledge about or experience in the administration of State or local elections, as well as representatives of successful customer service-oriented businesses, and any other individuals with knowledge or experience.&#8221;</p>
<p>Beginning with its first meeting, the Board will have six months to submit recommendations to the president. One month after that report is submitted, the Board will disband.</p>
<p>Adams remains wary, noting that the Justice Department&#8217;s &#8220;controversy-plagued Civil Rights Division&#8221; has provided &#8220;government-funded cover&#8221; to leftist activists who have called for expansive federal mandates to &#8220;fix a problem that is not widespread.&#8221; “If the Democrats name wild-eyed activists to the commission, we’ll know what the commission is really all about,&#8221; warns Adams.</p>
<p>It may not take that long. Democrats have <a href="http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=2049:february-15-2013-washington-post-obamas-proposed-voting-commission-under-partisan-fire-from-both-sides&amp;catid=64:press-articles-of-interest&amp;Itemid=62">introduced</a> several bills in Congress that would effectively usurp state election law. Provisions include requiring states to set up a 15-day early voting period, the imposition of a one-hour limit on the time voters must wait to cast their ballot, a requirement allowing online registration, and one permitting convicted criminals to vote after they have completed their sentences.</p>
<p>The glaring omission? Requiring or allowing states to require photo ID for voting.</p>
<p>Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/republican-senators-question-obama-s-call-national-voting-commission-0">addressed</a> that ideologically inspired discrepancy. &#8220;[Obama's] Justice Department tragically has been the most partisan Justice Department this country has seen. They have repeatedly fought common sense voter integrity policies like voter ID that serve, as the U.S. Supreme Court has said, to protect and ensure the integrity of our democratic system,&#8221; he told CNS News.</p>
<p>There is little question that Cruz is correct. Prior to the 2012 election, the DOJ <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/26/politics/house-voter-id-laws">sued</a> Pennsylvania, Texas and South Carolina to prevent them from imposing photo ID requirements for voting. The latter two states were sued under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, that requires states with a history of racial discrimination to &#8220;pre-clear&#8221; any changes to their procedures with the DOJ. A <a href="http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/in-supreme-court-debate-on-voting-rights-act-a-dubious-use-of-statistics/">suit</a> filed by Shelby County, Alabama, challenging the validity of Section  is currently before U.S. Supreme Court. A ruling is expected in late June.</p>
<p>Moreover, while both Obama and Holder remain focused on minority &#8220;disenfranchisement,&#8221; they have blithely ignored the 2009 Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act that required voter service facilities to be set up on military bases to provide troops with access to voter registration and absentee ballot forms. According to a Defense Department report <a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/09/07/dod-report-finds-half-of-u-s-military-bases-lack-required-voter-assistance-offices/">released</a> two months before the 2012 election, only 114 of the 229 installation voting assistance offices (IVAOs) were operational.</p>
<p>That Obama and the DOJ are more concerned with <i>possible </i>voter disenfranchisement than <i>actual</i> disenfranchisement speaks volumes.</p>
<p>Thus, it is no surprise that the DOJ <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/06/us-usa-politics-southcarolina-monitors-idUSBRE9450RO20130506">announced</a> it would monitor South Carolina&#8217;s special election that took place yesterday. It was initiated to fill the spot left by former Rep. Tim Scott, who was appointed by Governor Nikki Haley to replace Senator Jim DeMint, who resigned to head the Heritage Foundation. The race pitted scandal-scarred former Republican Governor Mark Sanford against Democratic newcomer Elizabeth Colbert Busch. The DOJ gave no reason for the monitoring, but the vote will take place under South Carolina&#8217;s new law requiring photo ID to vote. The disenfranchisement theme was highlighted in a campaign ad <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/black-voters-are-key-to-a-colbert-busch-win-in-south-carolina-20130428">released</a> by Busch. “Somebody doesn’t want African Americans to vote, and it doesn’t take Shaft to figure out who,” says a narrator while Isaac Hayes’ soundtrack from <i>Shaft </i>plays in the background. “Tuesday, May 7th, is your chance to show them they can’t get away with it.”</p>
<p>Moreover, given Holder&#8217;s speech before Al Sharpton&#8217;s National Action Network in April, it is likely that voter disenfranchisement remains his primary concern. He vowed to aggressively enforce federal voting rights laws&#8211;no matter how Supreme Court rules on Section 5. “As we await the court&#8217;s decision, I want to assure you that no matter the outcome, the Department of Justice will remain committed to the aggressive and appropriate enforcement of all voting and civil rights protections, including every part of the Voting Rights Act,&#8221; he promised.</p>
<p>Thus, no matter what the administration claims about bipartisanship, it is impossible to ignore the context within which this Commission has been created. Adams reminds Americans that since the Motor Voter law passed in 1993, the scope of where people can now register to vote has expanded to &#8220;food stamp offices, welfare offices and even heroin addiction treatment facilities&#8221; even as the part of the same law requiring voter rolls to be purged of ineligible voters &#8220;has gathered dust over the last two decades.&#8221;</p>
<p>The ideological divide is clear. For Democrats, voter turnout, irrespective of procedural integrity, is their first priority. For Republicans, the integrity of the process itself, which they consider best protected by photo ID, is paramount. Given the ideological bent of the current administration, there is little question that any attempt to federalize the election process would prioritize voter turnout, even as the effort to investigate and prosecute voter fraud would likely be marginalized.</p>
<p>Despite this reality, the left should be equally wary of allowing the federal government to control elections. No political party retains control of Washington, D.C. in perpetuity, and to use a familiar adage, &#8220;what goes around comes around.&#8221; Furthermore, Americans are far better served by 50 separate entities, aka the states, vying to improve voting procedures on their own. Individual states are far more familiar with the details and issues related to voting than any one-size-fits-all bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. could ever be.</p>
<p>Using the phony crisis of long lines as the impetus to create a Presidential Commission on Election Administration smacks of this administration&#8217;s &#8220;never let a crisis go to waste&#8221; mentality, even as the genuine crisis of disenfranchising those who put their lives on the line for the nation is calculatingly ignored. In short, tyranny requires centralized control. Freedom does not.</p>
<p>Seventy-four percent of Americans <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/14/74-of-americans-support-voter-id-laws">support</a> photo ID as a prerequisite to voting. Under the &#8220;Mission&#8221; section of this executive order, there are 11 items the president considers vital to improving the election process. Photo ID isn&#8217;t one of them.</p>
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		<title>Lawless Left Targets Pennsylvania Voter ID Laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Gottfried]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/paul-gottfried/lawless-left-targets-pennsylvania-voter-id-laws/gt_georgia_voting_630x420_120723/" rel="attachment wp-att-181126"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-181126" title="gt_georgia_voting_630x420_120723" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/gt_georgia_voting_630x420_120723-450x300.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="180" /></a>Readers of Pennsylvania newspapers have been told (by now repeatedly) that the state attorney general<a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/state/attorney-general-weighs-defending-voter-id-677026/">, Kathleen Kane</a>, cannot bring herself to enforce the state voter identification law that the legislature passed last year. This PA law is nothing out of the ordinary. Similar laws have already been approved and enforced in fifteen other states. The usual suspects, black and Hispanic Democratic leaders and the League of Women’s Voters, petitioned the Supreme Court back in 2008 to prevent such laws from taking effect, claiming they were designed to keep minorities from voting. But <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24351798/ns/politics/t/supreme-court-upholds-voter-id-law/">the Court</a>, with at least one Democratic appointee, nixed that objection by a 6-3 margin five years ago. In Pennsylvania the League of Women’s Voters has been the key player in keeping the issue in court. Their suits have moved from substantive to procedural issues going after a law that would require voters to produce a driving license or some other form of identification before getting to vote. Under our law those without identity proof would be allowed to vote but would have to produce an identification document afterwards.</p>
<p>It seems that the attorney general will not enforce the law because it apparently goes against her conscience. She also claims that it violates the state constitution, which forbids racial discrimination in voting procedures. We’ve been down that road before, and the Supreme Court has already judged laws intended to avoid voter fraud as “race neutral,” even if their effect would help one party more than the other. Still our state newspapers, even the ones that purport to be conservative, keep referring to Kane’s behavior as “admirable.” <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2013-02-23/news/37244186_1_voter-impersonation-court-judge-robert-simpson-majority-leader-mike-turzai">Our papers</a> also insist that the voter identification law is suspect because it was overwhelmingly supported by Republican legislators and then signed by a Republican governor. By that curious standard, Obamacare, which the Philadelphia Inquirer and other large state newspapers view as nothing short of a divine revelation, would be equally open to question. If memory serves, it was Democrats who overwhelmingly voted for that can of worms.</p>
<p>Kane has obvious reasons for agonizing over the problem of enforcing a law she doesn’t like. She plans to run for governor against the Republican Tom Corbett, and the groups she’s appealing to with her histrionics, plus any fraudulent votes that might get cast in that election, would go her way. Kane’s opponent, who has tried to cut budgets, however slightly, has refused Obama’s Medicaid offer of subsidies to the states, and is opposed to state aid for abortion, has extremely low statewide support. On the basis of recent polls, it would seem that <a href="http://www.fandm.edu/news/article/f-m-poll-shows-weak-support-for-corbett-privatized-lottery">Corbett’s popularity rating</a> is under 30%; and any “impropriety” that the state media can ascribe to him, most recently having taken a free ticket for a <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2013-03-06/news/37473315_1_tom-corbett-gifts-hottest-ticket">Pittsburgh Penguin hockey match</a>, is blown up into a national scandal. Corbett has the additional misfortune of being totally out of sync with his fellow Catholics in this state, who are mostly of the Obama-Kane variety. (Toomey, who is also Irish Catholic, won his Senate seat with <a href="http://Franklin+&amp;+Marshall+College+Poll">heavy Protestant support</a>.)</p>
<p>Kane’s recent shenanigans typify a form of behavior that left-Democrats engage in with resounding media approval. They ignore or break laws that are not politically advantageous to them, and when they do, they can sit back and wait for applause. Right now there are thirty cities in the US, including New York, Baltimore, Houston, and Detroit, which openly flout laws requiring illegals to be reported. The municipal administrations have even announced that they’re <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2007/05/04/sanctuary-cities-embrace-illegal-immigrants/">“sanctuary cities.”</a> The American president has gone these cities one step better, by opening up jails and releasing illegals who have committed criminal acts. Supposedly Obama did this as a first step in complying with a “sequester” that would require him to cut a tiny fraction of federal expenses. He and his attorney general also stated repeatedly that they <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-administration-drops-legal-defense-marriage-act/story?id=12981242">would not be bound</a> by the Defense of Marriage Act, sponsored by Democratic president Bill Clinton, which defined marriage as being exclusively between a man and woman. After all, Obama’s electorate is made up of the social left, which considers anything less than a federal law establishing a universal right to gay marriage as a cosmic injustice.  Not enforcing laws that don’t seem fashionable or which don’t enjoy the NYT’s stamp of approval is apparently an act of conscience we should all be applauding.</p>
<p>What would happen, however, if the unlikely occurred and someone with my views became governor or attorney general of this Commonwealth? I, for one, oppose laws that set up minimum wages or would pressure me into hiring someone for a job, lest I discriminate against some group whom I‘m supposed to treat with special consideration. As soon as I took office, I would express my views on these subjects and indicate that my principles prevented me from enforcing minimum wage or anti-discrimination laws. How much applause do you think my act of conscience would get from the national or state press? I would be lucky not to land in jail on some trumped-up charge as a right-wing enemy of the Constitution. Nor do I think that Obama would continue to enjoy his present drooling media popularity if he announced tomorrow that he changed his mind about social issues. Can one imagine how his media approval rating would plummet if he said that he considered homosexuality and abortion to be horrible sins?</p>
<p>I would note that in addition to media encouragement of this non-enforcement shtik, law-evasion on the part of elected officials succeeds because the other side accepts the glaring double standard. One reason for this indulgence is admittedly well-intentioned. It arises from the fact that those who see themselves as being on the right believe they should be lawful. This has been the attitude of the non-Left in this country and in Western Europe since the 1960s that we should all obey those laws that are enacted by constitutional procedures. The Left, by appealing to a right of conscience whenever it decides to break laws, has behaved in a way that we’re supposed to deplore. But this has put the two sides at a disadvantage: one side feels free to break or not enforce laws until it gets its way; while the other side feels duty-bound to obey what may offend it. But both sides also accept the double standard as defining their customary behavior. If the Left breaks laws in the name of equality or social justice, then that’s just the way things are.</p>
<p>The second reason that the leftist practice of ignoring laws can gain ground is that the conservative opposition does not rage as often or as loudly as it should. This happens because the GOP may actually feel guilty that Democratic voters dislike them. Perhaps they’re not doing enough to reach out. I’ve certainly noticed that black columnist Tom Sowell and <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/starparker/2011/07/18/why_do_blacks_still_let_obama_off_the_hook">Star Parker</a> are less insipid about discussing race issues than almost any white Republican columnist. Nor am I surprised that <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2523013">Mitt Romney’s former staff</a> are running en masse to sign an amicus curiae brief addressed to the Supreme Court to declare gay marriage a nationally protected right. I would be far more surprised if I saw Obama’s staff entering the lists on the other side. Unless I’m mistaken, the organized Left has a deeper commitment to what it presents as its social and moral beliefs. I would except from this judgment at least part of the Religious Right, but I doubt this group has anything more than a slight dragging effect on GOP presidential platforms. This residual right-wing pressure is nothing like the guiding power that its diametric opposition can exert on the Democratic Party, and particularly on the present administration.</p>
<p>This is my parting shot: the Left has prevailed partly because it has acted boldly to dramatize its protest.  Being able to recall the student protests of the 1960s, as a graduate student and assistant professor, what struck me about these demonstrations was the difference between its participants and their critics. One side seemed serious about changing things; while the other (which included me) was annoyed by the Left’s disruptive tactics and offered factual rebuttals to the campus revolutionaries. Most of us had no fire in our bellies; and those who belonged to the conservative side wound up mildly protesting the law-evasions of those determined to carry out a legal revolution. There are historical rules bordering on inevitability about what happens to well-dressed, timid people who react with excessive restraint to their enemies’ plans.</p>
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		<title>Prisoners Collect Millions in Unemployment Checks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent audit in South Carolina purportedly shows the state is also paying unemployment benefits to inmates as well as children, dead people and residents of other states.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.barking-moonbat.com/index.php/weblog/another_scam_played_on_uncle_sucka/">Well they are unemployed</a>. If you <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/20/pennsylvania-most-recent-state-to-find-inmates-collecting-unemployment-costing/">don&#8217;t count a life of crime as a job</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>State and federal officials say inmates across the country continue to collect millions each year in fraudulent unemployment benefits &#8212; often the result of oversight &#8212; with the most recent case in Pennsylvania, where more than 1,000 people collected benefits while behind bars.</p>
<p>The problem is hardly isolated to Pennsylvania. The states with the highest fraud rate over that period were Arizona at 9.21 percent; Mississippi at 9.05 percent; Louisiana at 8.29 percent; South Dakota at 5.95 percent; and Pennsylvania and New Mexico tied at 5.22 percent. The total amount of improper payments was roughly $890 million.</p>
<p>A recent audit in South Carolina purportedly shows the state is also paying unemployment benefits to inmates as well as children, dead people and residents of other states.</p>
<p>State Sen. Kevin Bryant said the percentage of claims could be as high as 25 percent.</p></blockquote>
<p>You can&#8217;t discriminate against Underage-Americans, Undead-Americans and People-Who-Don&#8217;t-Live-Here Americans. That would be Unconstitutional.</p>
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		<title>Ohio Imam Steals 3.8 Million from Food Stamp Program, Gets Only 1 Year in Prison</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al-Gaheem, the former owner of two Dayton View businesses and the imam of Masjid At-Taqwa mosque, was the second of four defendants to be sentenced in the case. All four defendants have pleaded guilty.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/ohio-imam-gets-just-1-year-in-3-8m-food-stamp-fraud/">But look on the bright side,</a> if he had killed a few hundred Americans, we would probably be negotiating with him about now. If he ran a major terrorist group, we would be shipping him some free F16s.</p>
<blockquote><p> A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Al-Idu Al-Gaheem to one year and one day in prison for his role in a scheme that bilked $3.8 million from the federal food stamp program.</p>
<p>Al-Gaheem, the former owner of two Dayton View businesses and the imam of Masjid At-Taqwa mosque, was the second of four defendants to be sentenced in the case. All four defendants have pleaded guilty.</p>
<p>Al-Gaheem faced as many as four years in prison after he pleaded guilty in August to felony charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, food stamp trafficking and structuring transactions to avoid reporting requirements.</p>
<p>Al-Gaheem, who previously was named Lawrence Phillips, was the owner of Five Pillars Market, 1263 W. Riverview Ave., and Riverview Cell &amp; Cup of Dreams, 512 N. Broadway St.</p>
<p>Al-Gaheem worked and conspired with Abdul Yamini Sr., Abdul Qadir and Omar Yahya to defraud the food-assistance program. The men illegally paid customers 50 cents in cash for every $1 in food stamp benefits they redeemed.</p></blockquote>
<p>Any guesses how much of that money ended up in the hands of terrorists?</p>
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