Monday, August 03, 2009

Seed money

From the Contra Costa (California) Times, this:

To supplement his income at Your Black Muslim Bakery, founder Yusuf Bey hid his paternity of some of his 42 children so their mothers could collect welfare benefits, said three of his women during sworn depositions they gave in a civil lawsuit in 2005. At various times the benefits included medical care, federal housing vouchers, food stamps and cash assistance that the women had to immediately turn over to him, they said.

Bey hid his paternity by keeping his name off of some of his children's birth certificates, a survey of county birth records shows, even though he openly acknowledged them as his children in the daily life of the bakery. Bey also offered to raise other people's children, and in at least three cases he had one of his women made their guardians. Then he collected welfare benefits for those children, too. And when they became old enough to bear his children, the new generation was also added to the welfare rolls, the women testified.

You know why I don't have a great deal of sympathy for California's budget crisis?

Yes, you know.

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1 comment:

MaryJ said...

I don't have any sympathy for our budget crisis either, and I'm a lifelong Californian. Full-scale meltdown is the only way the idiots in charge will learn -- if ever.