The lesson in Minnesota or in this case out of Pennsylvania is that while America’s welfare rats may be too dumb and lack ambition to do anything more than sign up for welfare, there are malicious third worlders with the knack to really game the system and cash in on the welfare state.

Consider the allegations made by Pennsylvania in Mohammad’s case.

Pennsylvania’s attorney general has charged a McCandless couple with running an “elaborate scheme” to illegally buy food stamps at a cut rate, use them to purchase nearly $180,000 in food from area stores, then resell the items at their Pittsburgh deli and restaurant.

Rachna Anwar, 46, and her husband, Munir Mohammad Chaudhri, 62, used 453 Electronic Benefit Transfer cards belonging to other people on hundreds of transactions since 2021, authorities said.

The couple ran the operation, in part, by offering people cash in exchange for their EBT card.

Authorities said the operation dates back to at least 2021 and accounts for $178,289 worth of goods, mostly food items.

The former employee, who worked as a delivery driver at the couple’s restaurant from 2023 to last year, said Chaudhri would buy EBT cards from “drug addicts” for half of the card’s balance, authorities said.

Chaudhri would check the balances of each card in his wife’s deli next door, then pay individuals for the cards with cash, according to investigators.

This isn’t some new and innovative idea.

Mamdani keeps name checking ‘bodegas’, a whole bunch of these people are actually run by Muslim immigrants who, unlike the Chinese or Latino owners, engage in large scale systemic EBT fraud.

Search for various spellings of ‘Mohammed’ and food stamp fraud and you’ll find all too many cases.

A Westlake man with a history of food stamp fraud was indicted on charges that he continued to illegally accept food stamps at seven Cleveland-area gas stations, laundered the profits, illegally had firearms, operated an unregulated slaughterhouse and polluted a stream by dumping animal blood and other fluids into it.

Amin M. Salem, 59, and Mohamed Salem, 32, were both indicted on one count each of conspiracy to launder money and one count of engaging in real estate transactions using laundered funds.

Muhammed Farooq, 49, of Somerset has been arrested and charged with first 1st degree money laundering, 2nd degree theft by deception and 4th degree Food Stamp fraud.

Mohammad H. Mohammad, 52 of Parma; Omar H. Mohammad, 49, of Parma, and Rashid H. Mohammad, 53, of Strongsville, are each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit food stamp fraud, one count of food stamp fraud and one count of unlawful redemption of food stamps. Mohammad Mohammad also faces three additional counts of engaging in financial transactions with proceeds from specified unlawful activity.

The Mohammads and others conspired to commit more than $4 million in food stamp fraud through the use of their business, Holyland Imported Goods, located at 11717 Lorain Avenue. This took place between 2003 and 2015, according to the indictment.

A man accused of being involved in a nearly $24 million food stamp fraud scheme has surrendered to federal officials after returning to the United States for medical treatment. He had been living in Jordan for a decade.

Mahmoud “Mike” Salti Jr., 45, was in Detroit and was expected to return to Cleveland next week, his lawyer said.

Prosecutors accuse Salti and his uncle, Mohammed Salti, of buying food stamps from recipients for about 75 cents on the dollar, then redeeming them for full value from the government through stores they controlled.

The owners of a local grocery store and a food stamp recipient pleaded guilty on Wednesday to food stamp fraud, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and other agencies.

Muhammad Qadeer Akram, 46, and his wife, Shama L. Qadeer, 38, the former owners of Alnoor Grocery Store, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit food stamp fraud, food stamp fraud and wire fraud. Tequita L. Higgins, 28, a food stamp recipient, pleaded guilty to food stamp fraud.

Our welfare rats think they’re geniuses if they can figure out how to sign up a dead guy for food stamps. Third worlders look at our system and see dozens of ways they can game it.

And they do.

The Somali thing is the tip of an iceberg the size of 30% of our government spending.