2 Massachusetts men charged with SNAP fraud
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Federal prosecutors said they are responding to a Trump administration-led effort to crack down on food-stamp crime.
Federal authorities in Massachusetts charged two Haitian men with running a $7 million SNAP fraud scheme using multiple storefronts in the state.
Investigators say unusually high redemptions, undercover buys and surveillance exposed years of alleged SNAP trafficking.
The men also allegedly sold donated food that was meant for the nonprofit organization Feed My Starving Children.
We’re allowing our kin, we’re allowing our friends, our neighbors to suffer the indignity … of not having enough food and to suffer the health consequences of not having enough money for food,” Chilton said.