<![CDATA[One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say.]]>https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-family-pocketed-7-6-221318711.html

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]]>https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222304https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222304Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say. on Invalid Date]]>Hmm, why does this remind me of a “Seinfeld” episode? 🙂

]]>https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222311https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222311Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say. on Invalid Date]]>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

]]>https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222313https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222313Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say. on Invalid Date]]>I won’t bother to do the math but at 5¢ a can that’s a lot of cans.

]]>https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222314https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222314Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say. on Invalid Date]]>@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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@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.

]]>https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222346https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222346Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say. on Invalid Date]]>@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!

]]>https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222348https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222348Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say. on Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:21:05 GMT]]>ISO a state that has big recycling refunds and cheap cigs to shlep back to my high tax state.

]]>https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222349https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222349Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:21:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say. on Invalid Date]]>@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.

]]>https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222387https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222387Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say. on Invalid Date]]>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.

]]>https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222417https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222417Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say. on Invalid Date]]>@mrvietnam How do they track it? Could one go to different recycling centers in the same day?

]]>https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222422https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222422Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say. on Invalid Date]]>@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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]]>https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222458https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222458Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say. on Invalid Date]]>@my4mainecoons yes

]]>https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222459https://phatwalletforums.com/post/222459Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say. on Invalid Date]]>@mrvietnam You can recycle crushed items by weight?

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@mrvietnam You can recycle crushed items by weight?

Yes.

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