Atlanta Strip Clubs: Welfare Money Spent On Luxury Items

Posted on April 28th, 2011 in Atlanta strip clubs

ATLANTA — In Georgia this year, recipients will receive $52 million in TANF dollars, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, commonly known as welfare. A Whistleblower 2 Investigation revealed thousands of dollars spent at liquor stores, strip clubs even bowling alleys by TANF recipients.
Georgia’s Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, known as TANF, received $52 million in federal money this year. Nationally the program is budgeted at $16.5 billion.

A Whistleblower 2 Investigation revealed that TANF cards were swiped at Club Wax, a strip club in southwest Atlanta and at Club Onyx, a strip club on Chesire Bridge Road. TANF recipients used their cards 584 times at Jaxx Beer in Albany, Ga; those swipes accounted for $118,198.

Channel 2 found these expenditures by going line by line through over 1 million different transactions. Not all of them are at strip clubs and liquor stores.

See the full article from “WSB Atlanta”



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