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By Christopher Butler | Tennessee Watchdog
NASHVILLE — Recipients of electronic benefit transfer cards in Chattanooga and Knoxville used their benefits at a strip club, bar, tobacco shop, malls, high-end clothing stores, hotels and other places where non-essential items are sold.
As it did with EBT transactions in Memphis, Tennessee Watchdog accessed state records and examined almost 22,000 EBT purchases for June 2012 in these two cities.
Of the transactions, 13,566 took place in Knoxville, while 8,424 occurred in Chattanooga.
As was the case in Memphis, most of the transactions occurred at grocery stores — but a small number of transactions were at businesses that do not specialize in selling essential items.
Read the complete story at Tennessee Watchdog.
