Soak the Poor

In the 1930s, the Depression led to widespread poverty and hunger. To help relieve this, the government came up with the Home Relief program. This gave the poor tickets they could redeem for subsidized food. The problem is that a gang has begun muscling in on grocery stores--taking the tickets and buying them for only a fraction of what they were worth. Because stores were now losing money, they are forced to raise prices to compensate. Government investigators began noticing that something was amiss and a team led by Special Investigator Stanton (Leon Ames) investigate.

While this installment of "Crime Does Not Pay" was not among the most interesting since it's about such an unusual sort of crime, like its predecessors, it was very well made and exciting.