Anita McLemore lied about past drug convictions in order to get food stamps for her two children. She paid back the $4,367 she received but is still being sentenced to three years in jail. Matt Taibbi fumes:
You get busted for drugs in this country, and it turns out you can make yourself ineligible to receive food stamps. But you can be a serial fraud offender like Citigroup, which has repeatedly been dragged into court for the same offenses and has repeatedly ignored court injunctions to abstain from fraud, and this does not make you ineligible to receive $45 billion in bailouts and other forms of federal assistance.
The Dish 