Thursday, November 28, 2002

Dog bites man alert!
Over at Fox News, attorney Matt Hayes shocks with New Immigrants Masters at Food Stamp Fraud:
After he’d gone 90 days without payment, my law firm informed Shihad that we could do no more on his case until he made a payment. He pulled a wad of food stamps our of his wallet and said, "Give me some time to sell these."

Shihad, who’d won his asylum case a few months earlier, might have been eligible for food stamps, but he wasn't eligible to sell them. No one is. It's a crime. "Shihad," I said, "I'm withdrawing. You're trying to pay me with the proceeds of a crime."
Maybe it should have been "Man Bites Dog Alert!" - Matt is apparently an honest immigration lawyer.