Fraud Committed Against The SNAP (Food Stamps) Program

Sixty-six million dollars. Think about that for just a moment.

That's sixty-six million dollars that DID NOT rightfully go to hungry adults, children and babies on the SNAP program.

Filthy scum like these six people who were arrested should have the book thrown at them. I have no sympathy for them... none whatsoever. Let them rot in jail and I hope they go hungry.

Trump agency uncovers 'one of the largest' food stamp fraud, bribery schemes

USDA employee, five others under arrest for alleged multimillion-dollar food stamp scheme

May 30, 2025

A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) employee and five others are under arrest as of Friday morning, after allegedly misappropriating tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer food stamp funds.

"At [the] USDA, we are hyper-focused… on rooting out that waste, fraud and abuse, and… yesterday was, if not the largest, one of [the] largest stings," Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said Friday on "Mornings with Maria."

"This is a new day, and President Trump promised, as he was traveling across the country over the last few years," she continued, "that it would not be the government that we know."

With the assistance of the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office, six individuals have been criminally charged with a bribe and fraud scheme that generated more than $66 million in unauthorized transactions under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps.

The defendants — Michael Kehoe, Mohamad Nawafleh, Omar Alrawashdeh, Gamal Obaid, Emad Alrawashdeh and Arlasa Davis — are accused of "conspiracy to steal government funds and to misappropriate U.S. Department of Agriculture benefits," according to a press release.



Starting in 2019, the indictment states that Kehoe created a network that supplied 160 unauthorized electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards to stores across the New York area, to illegally process more than $30 million in EBT transactions.

"This fraud was made possible when USDA employee Arlasa Davis betrayed the public trust by selling confidential government information to the very criminals she was supposed to catch. Their actions undermined a program that vulnerable New Yorkers depend on for basic nutrition," U.S. Attorney Perry Carbone said in the media release.

These charges should be a reminder that those who exploit anti-poverty programs for personal gain will be held accountable for their crimes," Carbone expanded.

The group also allegedly created fraudulent USDA applications, misappropriated license numbers and, in some cases, doctored application documents for unauthorized stores.

"That is no longer going to be allowed here in Washington, and with these programs like the food stamp program. So we're going to move forward, obviously in partnership with the FBI, with the Department of Justice, of course our team at USDA. This is not the 'one and only,’" Rollins said. "There are going to be many more to come, and we're gonna make sure that we're delivering on our promises to the taxpayers."

"It’s just the tip of the spear," the secretary added. "We're trying to lock it down right now to ensure that it doesn't keep happening. But when you've got employees that basically don't follow the law, then we've got to fix it, and that's what we're doing. There's going to be real consequences for breaking the law across America's federal government with President Trump, but this is just one of many more to come."

https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/trump-agency-uncovers-one-largest-food-stamp-fraud-bribery-schemes

 

Shines the light on why the left was so vehemently opposed to DOGE.

 

I hope they make such glaring examples of these 6 that like-minded turds eagerly flee the US for some other nation's shores.