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Welfare Fraud: Confessed Liar & Cheat

Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird (.979)
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 12, 2006

LEAD STORY

"Thierry F." recently outed himself as a professional welfare bum, bragging in his brand-new autobiography that he has lived very well off the French government for most of the last 24 years and that, even after his unemployment benefits expired, he found a second unemployment program to leech from. The latest one pays almost all of his monthly home loan, according to an October dispatch from Paris in The Times of London, and provides free medical care plus a "Christmas bonus," leaving an equivalent of $214 per month for what the delighted Thierry calls his "leisure activities." [Boston Herald-The Times (London), 10-9-06]

http://www.msnbc.com/comics/nw.asp?vts=111620060746

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I doubt very seriously that this would or could happen in the United States - and even if it did - seems unlikely that once such a public confession was made - charges would be filed.

I suggest that some official in London needs to seize the book profits from this liar and thief !!

It just makes me sick that someone would brag about being a thief and even sicker that a publisher would pay him - when he should have been reported!

Whoever this guy is - he needs to go to jail for fraud, grand theft, and any other charges that could be brought against him. His sentence should be served consecutively...

Then lets see if he'll then write a book about how well he lived in prison.

Gez....