Or, a refugee who wanted some doors opened wider- well, at least for a selected some.
Refugees "double dipping" in regards to social benefits from multiple states, federal and state agencies or even multiple countries ( US and Canada) are not unheard of.
In some cases, the double dipping stems from individual creativity by the refugee. In other cases, however, it stems from organized criminal groups. The groups approach the refugees (usually from their ethnic group or related to it) and present the scheme to them.
The crime group then arranges the filing of benefits paperwork, travel in regards to benefits applications, token residency in other states if needed, and false or altered identities if needed. They also convert food stamps or apartment vouchers into cash and even file appeals if one of their applicants is rejected for benefits etc.
Once fraudulent benefits (preferably of the steady and long term variety) are granted, the crime groups gets a cut of them. As large numbers of people can be "facilitated" in regards to double dipping, the cuts can add up to very large amounts of money.
Anyways, perhaps the victim was asking too many questions about suspicious applications, was denying too many applications, or, perhaps had refused bribes to uhmm..."expedite" certain fraudulent benefits applications?
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