Cash For Cons
Sounds like an “Only in Massachusetts” kind of thing, but even the hacks in Taxachusetts couldn’t believe it when the feds mailed economic stimulus checks to state prison inmates. Boston Herald:
Federal economic stimulus cash was handed out to cons behind bars in Bay State prisons after a bureaucratic snafu resulted in $250 checks being sent to some inmates – and now red-faced feds want it back.
“Taxpayers already believe the inmates are running the asylum in Washington,” U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said in a statement. “Now it appears they are being compensated for their efforts.”
Not only did the feds send the cash to incarcerated cons, but they failed to respond to state officials who sounded the alarm about the inmate windfall – now the subject of a national probe.
The state Department of Correction initially withheld stimulus checks mailed to 23 inmates because prison officials believed the convicts were not entitled to the cash, said DOC spokeswoman Diane Wiffin.
The DOC said it released the funds after the federal government ignored several requests for guidance.
Read it and weep. Or laugh. By the way, federal checks could be stimulating the cons at a prison near you. Boston Herald again: Feds’ payout probe goes nationwide.
Topics: Boston, Obama, hacks, money, moronocy
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:23 am Comments (3) on Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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August 25th, 2009 at 11:00 am
[...] Stimulus checks for inmates? Hey, why not — did you really think the party of Henry Waxman was really going to continue to allow cigarets to be used as currency? [...]
August 25th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
And they want to run our health care?
August 26th, 2009 at 6:45 am
Speaking of cash-4-cons, are you folks up there in ‘chusetts going to have an actual election to replace Teddy? They weren’t able to change the rules back to “appointment by Democratic Governor Only” were they?