Reporting from Sacramento —
California welfare recipients have been able to get
taxpayer cash — meant to feed and clothe their children — from ATMs at
strip clubs across the state, including some well-known gentlemen's
cabarets in Los Angeles.
More than $12,000 from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
program was dispensed between the start of 2007 and the end of 2009 at
clubs, including Sam's Hofbrau, Star Strip and Seventh Veil, according
to officials at the state Department of Social Services.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered the department to remove the
clubs from the official list of businesses where welfare recipients can
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