Of course if there were non-government employees they would be going to jail, but the political class in the US is part of the oligarchy and thus are more equal than anyone else ...

And so they are just fired, nothing more

http://mobile.courant.com/p.p?m=b&a=rp&id=1786268&postId=1786268&postUserId=47

The food stamp fraud scandal has now led to the firings of 27 state employees and the retirements of 10 others, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced announced Monday afternoon.

In addition, five state employees have resigned their positions instead of going through the long process of hearings and arbitration in order to try to save their jobs. All 42 employees who have left state service are potentially subject to criminal sanctions, but no arrests have been announced.

“When we announced this investigation, we said that allegations of fraud by state employees would not be tolerated,” Malloy said Monday in a statement. “While this is certainly not something anyone should take joy in, the people of Connecticut should know we are serious about running a government that honestly serves them.”

He added, “We’ve said all along that we were working with our partners at the state and federal level, and now we’re seeing positive results for our taxpayers. We will continue with this investigation until we have taken appropriate action against any employee that knowingly defrauded this federal program.”

The employees were fired because the Malloy administration says they falsified their financial information when applying for emergency food stamp benefits under the federal Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is known as D-SNAP. The program began following Tropical Storm Irene, which ravaged the state and knocked out electrical power to thousands in late August. The emergency money was designed not only to replace lost food, but could also to cover storm-related expenses like property repairs and temporary housing costs such as hotels. Actual food stamps are no longer issued, and recipients instead received debit cards with a specified amount of money allocated to the account.

After saying for months that about 800 state employees were involved, Malloy announced Monday afternoon that an additional 250 state employees had filled out applications for benefits. As such, an overall total of 1,053 state employees actually sought to receive emergency benefits.

So far, 128 state employees have been referred to their supervisors for potential disciplinary hearings. Of the more than 1,000 state employees involved, 685 have been cleared of any wrongdoing, according to a previous count by the Malloy administration.

 

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Mother Russia would be proud.

 

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lol.


So the state government is literally just legitimizing the claims, either through investigation or by firing people.


Either way, you three are still fucking retarded for celebrating this.

 

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Speaking of retards, where did you get the idea that anyone was celebrating?

I think you're projecting.

 

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It is completely crazy that these people did this. They totally screwed up their lives over a couple hundred bucks. Crazy.


As for the 800 or 1000 number, as the article says that is the number of state employees who applied for the benefit not how many were guilty of falsifying their information.


There is no justification for lying. It also seems that the system is working as intended.

 

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You're sure about that huh?

 

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Actually non-government employees from the pharmaceutical companies were caught stealing billions and were not sent to jail.

 

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I doubt very many people are thrown in jail for small dollar food stamp fraud.


Raising taxes to pay for the litigation and jail costs of these dangerous food stamp cheaters doesnt seem like a good tradeoff.