One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say.
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Hmm, why does this remind me of a “Seinfeld” episode?
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Hope the perps get excellent counsel to negotiate a plea.
https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/Felony Complaint for Arrest Warrant.pdf
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I won’t bother to do the math but at 5¢ a can that’s a lot of cans.
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@my4mainecoons said in One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say.:
I won’t bother to do the math but at 5¢ a can that’s a lot of cans.
Multiply by 20 so 156 million, which seems really logistically challenging. They aren’t super heavy - though that would be a couple tons. But they take up a lot of space. I guess less o if they are crushed like the picture shows.
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@mtnagel said in One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say.:
@my4mainecoons said in One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say.:
I won’t bother to do the math but at 5¢ a can that’s a lot of cans.
Multiply by 20 so 156 million, which seems really logistically challenging. They aren’t super heavy - though that would be a couple tons. But they take up a lot of space. I guess less o if they are crushed like the picture shows.
You know what they say, pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered. I bet there are thousands of companies doing this on a smaller scale.
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@rick505 said in One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say.:
Hmm, why does this remind me of a “Seinfeld” episode?
Newman!
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ISO a state that has big recycling refunds and cheap cigs to shlep back to my high tax state.
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@sonofzeus Indian Reservations used to have cheap cigs. IDK if that’s still true. I buy beverages in NH (no state sales tax, no CRV) and return the empties in my state for the nickels for <$10 year MM. Cigs are cheaper in states without sales tax but reservations didn’t charge federal tax either. I’ve been in a couple of tribe owned casinos and don’t recall cigarette stores so things may have changed.
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I live in CA and recycle and there is a limit of 100 lbs of recyclables at any one time per consumer, so for a family to have made $7.6 million, that took many trips and many people recycling all the time.
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@mrvietnam How do they track it? Could one go to different recycling centers in the same day?
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@my4mainecoons said in One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say.:
@mrvietnam How do they track it? Could one go to different recycling centers in the same day?
Not sure, but on big redemptions, you have to show your ID.
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@my4mainecoons yes
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@mrvietnam You can recycle crushed items by weight?
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@dangeruss said in One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say.:
@mrvietnam You can recycle crushed items by weight?
Yes.
