I Did A Deep Dive Into Our Welfare System, And It's WORSE Than I Thought
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A 40-year-old black woman took over a $2.5 million mansion in Bethesda, Maryland, and lived in it for 9 months. She didn't pay a dime to the bank, didn't sign a lease, and filmed TikTok videos pretending she was rich. Finally, in January, she was taken to court.
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About a month ago, we briefly discussed the very bizarre and disturbing case of a 40-year-old black woman named Tamika Good.
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Starting in July of 2025, Tamika Good decided that she liked the look of a multi-million dollar McMansion in Bethesda, Maryland.
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The mansion was empty because the bank had just foreclosed on it and they were preparing to sell it to the new owner.
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But Tamika Good didn't want to deal with any of that, so she decided to move in along with an accomplice.
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She didn't pay a dime to anyone. She didn't sign a lease or a purchase agreement.
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She just began living there and filming TikTok videos where she pretended that she was rich.
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She also supposedly sold litigation counseling to people who were bankrupt, although it's fairly
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clear that she didn't have many clients. And if she did, she probably wasn't providing the best
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legal advice. According to Daily Mail, on her bankruptcy filings, Tamika Good claimed her
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income came from just two sources, $538 in child support, and then $408 in food stamps.
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So this went on for several months, basically the entire last half of 2025. And then in January,
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it seemed like justice had finally prevailed. The woman was taken to court because a 19-year-old
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living next door noticed what she was doing, and she lost. This is from Fox 45 Baltimore,
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which has done incredible work exposing this case. Watch.
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I never imagined that this would take this long.
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Spotlight on Maryland reported in December about two alleged squatters who took over a $2.3 million house in Bethesda.
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Tamika Good, the squatter and self-described pro se litigation coach.
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Featured the estate in a TikTok video posted on her account just six days ago.
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Good was charged last year with multiple counts of burglary, trespassing, and other crimes associated with her squatter takeover of a multi-million dollar Bethesda home.
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She had a scheduled court appearance on Thursday morning.
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In exclusive footage obtained by Spotlight on Maryland, Good can be seen in a black Porsche Cayenne leaving the property soon before 7 to make it to court.
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During the trial, Good argued that it was unclear which bank owned the foreclosed house because there was no clear trespassing sign.
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The assistant state's attorney for Montgomery County replied after hearing Good repeat herself multiple times, saying, I know who doesn't own the property, and that's Tamika Good, adding, this isn't some vacant, abandoned, way out of the woods house.
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Hi, Ms. Tamika Good. Do you believe that squatting is a crime? Why are you in a two and a half million dollar property, Ms. Good?
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Judge John C. Moffitt gave remarks before he made the ruling, telling Good she had some demented thoughts to justify squatting.
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Good was found guilty on all counts of burglary and breaking and entering and immediately sentenced to 90 days in prison.
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I think the District Court of Maryland did the right thing today.
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Ian Chen, a 19-year-old living with his parents in a neighboring house to the home good occupied,
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brought the case before a Maryland commissioner's office because he said he wanted to take back the neighborhood from criminals.
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I felt it was my civic duty to do the right thing, to file these charges, and then to ultimately bring her to justice here today.
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So after nine months in which this woman was living in a house that she didn't own, everything seemed to have been resolved finally.
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But as we all know, even when they're sentenced to prison, criminals aren't actually punished anymore in this country.
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And therefore, Good got out of prison in less than two weeks after paying $500 out of a $5,000 bond.
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We played some of the footage before, but it's worth revisiting because it includes one of the most extraordinary interviews with an incompetent lawyer that you'll ever see.
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Again, this is from the same Fox affiliate in Baltimore.
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Less than two weeks of being incarcerated,
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11 days later, Good was released on appeal on February 2nd
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Activities in the house started again soon after her release.
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For days, a woman wearing similar shoes and green pants
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was seen moving in and out of the alleged Bethesda squatterhome.
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It's really the number one question on everybody's mind.
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How would your client, Mr. Mika Good, get inside a $2.3 million property?
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Cut. I don't know if I can answer that. Allegedly.
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So the number one question on everybody's mind is how your client, Ms. Domeka Good, got
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She found out that a certain property was under the control of a certain group
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Due to the title issue, she was able to assume the property under squatter's rights.
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So in Maryland, there isn't a particular squatter's right.
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Well, there's not a particular squatter's right, but it's known as squatter's right.
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When you first called the police living next to a squatter, what did they do?
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Nothing, really. They just knocked on the door, and when there was no answer, they just got back in their cars and left.
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We pressed Montgomery County Police on why Good and other squatters remain.
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The spokesperson replied, saying the squatters have been in the house for more than 30 days, so they have gained residency status.
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The most recent update appears to be that on February 10th, the teenager, teenage neighbor saw Tamika Good taking property out of the home and placing it in a U-Haul.
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So she was arrested for burglary. But again, she still has access to the house and she's still considered a resident, apparently.
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As for Tamika Good's accomplice, as of this week, he's out of jail, too.
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Even though his rap sheet is much longer than Tamika's, he's a free man as well.
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and his story's actually pretty interesting in its own right.
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It turns out that Georgetown University set up a program
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And Good's accomplice used that training to immediately commit more crimes.
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As the months-long battle continues over a squatter takeover
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of a $2.3 million Bethesda, Maryland home by Tamika Good last year,
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We're now learning more about her fellow squatting partner in the property, Corey Pollard,
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who was in federal court on Wednesday in Baltimore for violating probation.
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No, or not right now. You don't need to know. Those are the words that we all hear.
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Pollard was part of the inaugural class at Georgetown University's Pivot Program in 2019,
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a re-entry initiative connecting former offenders with jobs. Court records for Pollard show a
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lengthy criminal history including robbery vehicle theft and drug-related offenses
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with arrests in virginia pennsylvania maryland and delaware presentation delivering pitches
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interaction networking all that is a part of entrepreneurship and i learned all that through
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pivot just months after completing the pilot program prosecutors say pollard smashed a car
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dealership window with a sledgehammer to steal nearly half a dozen luxury cars between november
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2019 to December 2020. He was later convicted. Dowering sentencing, Pollard argued that he had
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demonstrated rehabilitation. We have a mass incarceration crisis in this country where
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we have 2.3 million people locked up behind bars. Maryland records show Pollard and Good
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launched a business together in 2020. Pollard also secured work with DC-based architecture
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firm Tordi Gallus and Partners with the help of Pivot. Even further, Pollard is listed as
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a community development coordinator with WFL Collective, a group that claims it partners
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with Civic Works and the Baltimore Housing Authority. Despite its claims, WFL Collective
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is not listed as a charity in the IRS's online database. Meanwhile, while squatting inside the
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$2.3 million home in December, Pollard was arrested on a warrant linked to yet another
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Pennsylvania case where he again is accused of stealing a collection of luxury vehicles
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in June 2024. Prosecutor also argued Pollard had a history of committing serial crimes of
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dishonesty and was a puppeteer, including his involvement in organizing luxury car
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theft sprees for years between trials. Despite those claims, Judge Julie E. Rubin ordered his
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release following Wednesday's hearing. We pressed Gallus after the hearing about his support for
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his pivot client and employee, as well as allegations he falsified a lease for Pollard.
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So do you think it's appropriate for your client to sit in a squatter home, sir?
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Throughout all of this, by the way, Tamika Good and her accomplice have retained access to her food stamps.
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Even when you commit a serious crime, taxpayers are still required to pay your bills.
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None of their welfare is impacted by the fact that they barged into a house and set up residence there, committed multiple crimes.
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They're both free to walk into another empty house, and if they can stay there for 30 days or claim to, then it's basically theirs.
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right in the last half century or so. It's a holdover from the medieval period when record
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keeping wasn't especially good and there was constant fighting over the land, so it would
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change hands a lot. But even back then, 30 days would have been a very tight time frame. In most
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of Europe, they required years of squatting in order to claim residency. But in the U.S., for
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the most part, all you need is 30 days. That's led to a rash of squatters all over the country.
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Watch. Squatting has been a problem across the country. The National Rental Home Council pinpoints
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the highest concentrations of complaints in states like Georgia, Florida, and Texas. One such case
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was from Patty Peoples in Jacksonville, Florida, who found out the hard way that squatters had
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broken in and taken over one of her investment properties. I called 911. And as I'm describing
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to the officer that there may be somebody that had broken and entered into my house,
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And she said, well, I rented this property yesterday.
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If you touch me again, I have every right to be in this house.
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You don't have every right to be in the house at all.
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We're blocking you from coming in the house because we're doing this way.
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Believe it or not, the police officer told me, I will arrest you if you do this again.
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Adele Andeloro went through something similar when she says squatters took over a home she
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The confrontation caught on camera by our station WABC.
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Why is it that I have to leave and he doesn't have to leave?
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we need to go to court at that time in new york city squatters had tenant rights after 30 days
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making this a landlord tenant dispute the problem with making it a landlord tenant dispute
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should be obvious to anyone who's ever been a landlord or who knows a landlord once you're
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considered a landlord you basically can't evict anyone this is how many foreigners afford housing
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in places like new york they just move in and don't don't pay rent and then when the landlord
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goes to housing court, the tenant gets a hardship extension. It gets so bad that landlords
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eventually offer the tenants a large amount of money to move out. That's what many squatters
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are hoping for. This is a case out of Chicago where the homeowner decided to move in with the
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squatters, which is a bold strategy for when the police and the legal system won't do anything to
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help you, but they still wouldn't move out. So he had to offer them cash to get them to leave. Watch.
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Chicago man says he did the unthinkable when he discovered alleged squatters in his property.
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Marco Velasquez is the owner of this Southside property, which is on the market to be sold.
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He says his realtor came by with a potential buyer, but there was already people inside.
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I couldn't believe it. It was like a nightmare.
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Velasquez says a woman named Charmaine and her boyfriend, Codero, moved in, claiming they recently purchased the property.
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He says the couple showed police this mortgage document, but Cook County confirms they don't
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see this mortgage on record. Velasquez's realtor recorded this video as the couple explained to
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police they had a right to be there. He says police told them under Illinois' current law
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they couldn't remove anyone. I said I'm not moving out and I said at the one point they
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got to leave. They got to get tired of Oz being in the property. I called a couple of friends,
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stay overnight, and I knew they were not going to like that. So you're telling me that you and
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your friends came in and moved in with them? Yes. Velasquez says he, his wife, and their friends
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got a few air mattresses and spent the night with the alleged squatters. We stayed in the living
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room. We were washing all the time the door. They stayed in one of the bedrooms. The next morning,
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he says he realized they were not budging. They're like, oh, we want $8,000. Velasquez
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says they negotiated. He had the couple sign a cash for key agreement and he paid them $4,300
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to leave. This is a situation, as you can imagine, that often turns violent or at least becomes very
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close to being violent. And even in those cases, the police still don't get involved. This is from
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Georgia. Decatur family says squatters have taken over their childhood home just days before it was
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supposed to be sold. Our Chase Howell spoke with a family who says the situation has been
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heartbreaking. We're going to party. You know what time is. From inviting people on Facebook to pool
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parties to posting videos on social media from inside this half a million dollar home, one family
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says squatters have taken over. It is a nightmare. These videos and advertisements are so far
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reaching that we received a call this morning from someone in Florida that
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said hey senior dad's property on the internet Lisa Kevin Marcus and Marlene
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grew up in the home they say it was just last week their dad passed away and
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not even 48 hours later this squatters came in like thieves in the night and
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took over their childhood home it pisses me off
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tremendously. After learning about the squatters the siblings called the police and according to
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the incident report the people inside the home supplied a lease. Then later that same day Kevin
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went to check on the house and was met by a group of guys. They started making threats against my
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life and one of them told his friend to go get something and he came back with a rifle in the
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doorway. What all these squatters have in common is that in every case, they know the legal system
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will take their side. Whatever punishment they receive, it won't be anything sufficient.
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It's just a cost of doing business. And once they pay the toll, if there is one,
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they know they can go right back to committing more crimes. This doesn't just apply to squatters.
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Consider the case of Abdul Abubakar Ali in Minnesota. He pleaded guilty to participating
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in one of the largest Somali scams that's been uncovered,
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In total, the fraudsters stole more than $250 million
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by falsely claiming that they had served meals to children
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Ali used a shell company known as Youth Inventors Lab
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Court documents show that Ali and his co-conspirators
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submitted fake invoices and claimed to have served
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more than 1 million meals despite serving none, helping him to personally pocket more than $100,000.
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Those are obviously very serious crimes. As part of a fraud that costs Minnesota taxpayers a quarter
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of a billion dollars, he lied about feeding hungry children when in fact he was doing absolutely
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nothing. He took advantage of an extremely dumb program that could only function in a high-trust
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society, which is not the kind of society we have anymore. His non-profit, which is fake,
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Youth Inventor's Lab, took in millions of dollars. And after all that, guess what Ali's
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sentence was? It was just handed down the other day. And here it is. Watch.
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We have another defendant in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme
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that received his sentence today. He is one of only a few defendants who have actually
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learned the punishment for their crime as dozens of others await sentencing. Fox 9's Courtney
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Godfrey is at the federal courthouse tonight with details on this case. So, Courtney, what's the
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latest there? Well, good evening, guys. This morning, a judge handed down a sentence for 40-year-old
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Abdul Abubakar Ali, a one-year and one-day sentence for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
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Ali, along with two others, operated a federal child nutrition program site called Youth Inventors
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lab the defendants claimed to have served approximately 1.5 million meals to underserved
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children over the course of seven months but federal prosecutors claim in reality they served
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only a small fraction of that when we visited the site in st paul back in 2022 right after charges
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were filed we found an empty storefront and neighbors who claimed they never saw a child
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walk through those doors did you ever see a child come in and out of those doors never
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Never. Every single person who was ever coming in and out of that building, they were an adult.
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Today, the judge gave Ali a shorter sentence than the pre-sentencing guidelines suggest,
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citing that he has already paid $90,000 of his $122,000 in restitution and that he was one of
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the first defendants to plead guilty in this case. So the scam nets $250 million in total.
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a lot of that money is laundered and untraceable to Ali's associates, gone for good. But the feds
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can only prove this guy personally took $100,000 into his bank account. So to punish him, they're
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going to demand that he pays back that $100,000. And then they're going to sentence him to one
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year in prison with the option to send him to a halfway house in a matter of weeks. That's it.
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If you join a conspiracy to defraud the government for $250 million, and that conspiracy indeed steals more than a quarter of a billion dollars, you basically won't suffer any consequences whatsoever.
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I mean, the worst case scenario, you'll have to pay back the money, and not even all of it, or even close to all of it, and serve a few months in jail.
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Meanwhile, your buddies with the $250 million can make you a very, very rich man once you get out of prison.
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Your nonprofit connections can buy you a mansion and a sports car, no problem.
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And no one in the government will do anything about it.
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Would you be willing, would you take $250 million for a year in prison?
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I think a lot of people would take that deal. And that's basically the deal that the court system is offering.
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Now, we're in this position because for the better part of a century, both political parties have constantly expanded welfare programs and invented new ones.
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to the point that it's impossible to police them for fraud, even if we want to, which very few
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people do. The Feeding Our Future scam was only identified in the first place because the fraudsters
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were extremely obvious about it. At one point, they said they were serving 5,000 meals a day
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in one tiny location, which is a lot more than a typical McDonald's serves in midtown Manhattan.
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And if they hadn't been so obvious, if they had been a little bit more clever and subtle,
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The government doesn't have the resources to count every child who supposedly eats a
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But if you go back and watch Republicans talk about welfare in the middle of the 20th century,
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Here's a speech from Richard Nixon, for example, where he announced a major welfare reform.
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Nixon oversaw the expansion of food stamps from around 2 million people to more than 15 million.
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It is morally wrong for a family that is working to try to make ends meet,
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to receive less than a family across the street on welfare.
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This has been bitterly resented by the man who works, and rightly so.
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The rewards are just the opposite of what they should be.
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system. Its effect is to draw people off payrolls and onto welfare rolls. And that is why tonight
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I therefore propose that we abolish the present welfare system and that we adopt in its place
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a new family assistance system. Initially, this new system will cost more than welfare.
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But unlike welfare, it is designed to correct the condition it deals with and thus to lessen
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the long-range burden and cost. Under this plan, the so-called adult categories of aid,
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aid to the aged, the blind, the disabled, would be continued, and a national minimum standard for
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benefits would be set, with the federal government contributing to its cost and also sharing the
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cost of additional state payments above that amount. And for the first time, benefits would
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be scaled in such a way that it would always pay to work.
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With such incentives, most recipients who can work will want to work.
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Under this proposal, everyone who accepts benefits must also accept work or training
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provided suitable jobs are available either locally or at some distance if transportation is provided.
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The only exceptions would be those unable to work and mothers of preschool children.
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In the short term, we're told it will cost more money, but in the long term, we'll see extra savings, extreme savings, Nixon told us.
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The welfare rolls will decrease because, after all, who would lie about being disabled?
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Who would lie about needing government assistance to eat?
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Well, a half century later, there are something like 40 million people on food stamps in this country.
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And we know for a fact, it's not even debatable, that the vast majority of these people are committing fraud.
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three quarters of adult food stamp beneficiaries are overweight or obese.
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yes three quarters of the 25 million adults who get food stamps are fat which by definition means
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they don't need food stamps but they're getting them anyway because we don't require a weigh-in
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to qualify it's the honor system as long as they say they're looking for work they get to steal
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your money and on top of that according to the center for economic and policy research quote
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adults with disabilities make up about 25 percent of snap recipients nearly twice their share in the
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overall population. Well, how do we know these people aren't faking a diagnosis to get out of
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the work requirement as limited as it is? That's a good question since we already know that millions
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of Americans are defrauding the system already. It's not exactly a stretch to suggest that they're
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also lying about a disability to get out of the work requirement. In fact, we know that's happening.
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We know there are a ton of fake disabled people walking around out there. Think about how many
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people claim that they have a disability just so they can bring their dog on a plane.
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Think about how many people are willing to, able-bodied people, normal people seemingly,
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are willing to lie about that just for the advantage of bringing a dog on a plane.
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Did Nixon consider any of this when he drastically expanded food stamps? Probably not.
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And by the way, when Nixon said it would be impossible in his system for people to get
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more money by not working. He was wrong about that too. One of my producers worked on a property
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that was converted into section eight housing in Kansas city, Missouri. And as part of this
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process, they ran the numbers on a single mother of a three-year-old and a five-year-old child.
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And we'll put that up on the screen. In scenario A, the mother is making minimum wage, $13.75 an
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hour. In scenario B, the mother is making $110,000 a year at her job. And in this comparison,
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after welfare benefits are paid out, including SNAP, child care assistance, section eight
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assistance, Medicaid, child tax credit, the woman with the minimum wage job ends up taking home
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$99,368 a year. But the woman with the actual job paying $110,000 a year nets only $99,344.
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that's less than the woman with a minimum wage job. The woman with the high-paying job doesn't
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qualify for a premium tax credit or earned income credit or SNAP or Medicaid or Section 8,
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and she has to pay a lot more income tax. So this is the system that Democrats created with a lot
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of help from Republicans. They've created a gigantic incentive for poor people to steal
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taxpayer money, and even for people who are not poor to steal taxpayer money. According to the
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Congressional Budget Office, quote, for someone earning just below the poverty line, the effective
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marginal tax rate can jump from 14% to 34% or higher when they cross certain income thresholds.
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So it's best to stay below the income threshold, and at the end of the day, you have more money
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than the honest worker earning $110,000 a year. Keep this in mind the next time you hear about
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the expansion of any welfare program in any context. This is where it leads in every single
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case. The only solution, what Nixon should have done, is to abolish all of it. The only people
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who should receive government assistance to buy food are people who are about to starve to death
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as demonstrated by a regular weigh-in. And that will end up being zero people.
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Meanwhile, the only people who should be allowed to live inside a home are the people who own the
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property. And anybody else, or whoever they invite in, anybody else should be forcibly removed.
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Squatter's rights should be abolished immediately. We invented them around the same time we came up
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with every other bad idea, and we can get rid of them just as quickly. Now, will any of that
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happen? Probably not. And for that reason, especially if you own any property, you need
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to be ready to defend it, because your government won't.
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I do believe that if people have committed treason against the United States of America,
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History is written by the victors, and since the 1960s, we've been told mostly by people
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whose ancestors didn't even live here during the war that the South committed treason.
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then why was Jefferson Davis never put on trial for treason?
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What were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson afraid of?
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Do they know something they're not allowed to say today?
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Robert E. Lee was a military genius and a man of immense honor.
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He was beloved by Americans from the North and South
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