Free Lunch "Fraud" Menu: Red Herring
Apparently, the greatest threat to the fiscal well-being of New Jersey is children who mightbe getting their school lunches for free [all emphases in this post mine]:
More than 100 people – including 83 public employees – gave false information about income on applications for free lunches submitted to school districts.
That is the finding of a Comptroller’s investigation announced Wednesday involving 15 school districts over a three-year period that uncovered widespread fraud.
Comptroller Matthew Boxer’s office reported that it has referred 109 names to the Division of Criminal Justice for prosecution: the 83 public workers and 26 others who are spouses or other household members of the public workers. The total in unreported income of those cases was over $13 million [What a poorly constructed sentence; that is not the amount of fraud, but the income misreported - JJ].