EXCLUSIVE: Hidden camera catches wireless company employees passing out 'Obama phones' to people who say they'll SELL them for drugs, shoes, handbags and spending cash
â¢The 'Lifeline' free-cell-phone scheme cost $2.2 BILLION last year alone, all of it from fees added to the phone bills of paying customers
â¢The biggest beneficiary other than low-income consumers is billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, whose TracFone has collected $1.5 BILLION to date
â¢One company told MailOnline it will fire a salesperson who laughed uproariously when a woman said she would sell her phone to buy shoes
â¢Conservative firebrand James O'Keefe sent undercover actors to pose as 'Obama phone' seekers aiming to sell the goods; no one turned them down
â¢Legislation in Congress would remove the cell phone component of the program, which launched in 1984 and covered only land lines until 2008
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â¢The 'Lifeline' free-cell-phone scheme cost $2.2 BILLION last year alone, all of it from fees added to the phone bills of paying customers
â¢The biggest beneficiary other than low-income consumers is billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, whose TracFone has collected $1.5 BILLION to date
â¢One company told MailOnline it will fire a salesperson who laughed uproariously when a woman said she would sell her phone to buy shoes
â¢Conservative firebrand James O'Keefe sent undercover actors to pose as 'Obama phone' seekers aiming to sell the goods; no one turned them down
â¢Legislation in Congress would remove the cell phone component of the program, which launched in 1984 and covered only land lines until 2008
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