The owners of an Ohio butcher shop pleaded guilty Friday to 25 counts of food stamp fraud totaling $3.4 million.
A jury in a Dayton, Ohio, federal court found Michael and Amanda Busch guilty on all counts of food stamp fraud, including wire fraud and conspiracy to steal government funds, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
The couple was found guilty of carrying out a scheme where they would trade cash for food stamp benefits handed out through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) between April 2010 and May 2018.
Investigators raided the store, Busch’s Country Corner, in May 2018 and collected financial records and security camera footage as part of a warrant.
Federal investigators say that out of the 195,000 SNAP transactions completed at the store over eight years, two-thirds of them were fraudulent.
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They should also prosectute every person who was using their food stamps to get money from the store! They also committed fraud and stole from every taxpayer! Both sides knew this was illegal and morally wrong!
ReplyDeleteOk, So every person that was part of the Fraud,
ReplyDeleteshould have there Snap Benefits revoked, easy as that.
When you "sell" two-thirds more meat than what you buy, it's easy to make the case for fraud. Duh.
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