United States v. Sharon Pollard

CORNELIA G. KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.

Defendant, Sharon Pollard, appeals from her convictions under 7 U.S.C. § 2024(b) 1 for two counts of unlawfully purchasing food stamps. During the 1981-82 winter, the Department of Agriculture and local law enforcement officials conducted a joint undercover investigation to curtail the illegal trafficking of food stamps in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area. As part of the investigation, undercover agents offered known dealers a ten percent commission for introductory sales that the dealers arranged to new customers. Under this arrangement, Thad Lewis, a known…