Feds Bust Biggest Food Stamp Scam In History


This case represents the utter failure of our country’s welfare system to ensure that participants are kept from abusing it and casts extreme doubt on the validity of it’s operations. This hurts not only taxpayers who are fleeced of their hard-earned money, but the people who are supposed to be helped by it, as US Attorney Wilfredo A. Ferrer states:

“’When individuals defraud governmental programs, they steal taxpayer funded benefits that are intended to feed the families and children in our communities who are most in need,’ Ferrer said.

He said at least seven more suspects are still being sought in the ‘unprecedented’ scam, in addition to the 22 in custody.

Each defendant, if convicted, faces up to 20 years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, 20 years for wire fraud and five years for food stamp and EBT fraud.”

Source: Fox Insider

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