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Fleeing Justice
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Store Owner From Teaneck Admits Pocketing $750,000 Of Taxpayer Money In Food Voucher Scam
A now-former store owner from Teaneck who was captured after fleeing the country admitted Thursday that he scammed the federal government out of more than $750,000 through a federal food voucher scheme. Jamil Bader, 60, put a small grocery store that he owned on Clinton Avenue in Newark in another person’s name because he’d been banned from participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) because of similar wrongdoing, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. This time, Bader admitted, he “repeatedly exchanged SNAP benefits for cash and kept a portion of the proceeds for him…