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Jamil Bader

Store Owner From Teaneck Gets 3 Years In Fed Pen For Pocketing In $750,000 Food Vouchers Store Owner From Teaneck Gets 3 Years In Fed Pen For Pocketing In $750,000 Food Vouchers
Store Owner From Teaneck Gets 3 Years In Fed Pen For Pocketing In $750,000 Food Vouchers A Newark store owner from Teaneck who was captured after fleeing the country was sentenced Thursday to 37 months in federal prison for scamming the government out of more than $750,000 in a food voucher scam. U.S. District Court Judge Brian R. Martinotti also sentenced Jamil Bader, 60, to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay restitution of $754,424. Bader 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 wrongdo…
Newark Store Owner Admits Pocketing $750,000 Of Taxpayer Money In Federal Food Voucher Scam Newark Store Owner Admits Pocketing $750,000 Of Taxpayer Money In Federal Food Voucher Scam
Newark Store Owner Admits Pocketing $750,000 Of Taxpayer Money In Federal Food Voucher Scam A now-former Newark store owner 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 himself,”…