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Authorities arrested and charged two dozen people for carrying out $50,000 worth of food stamp fraud, according to investigators with the Rhode Island State Police.

A federal judge ordered four Bangladeshi brothers convicted of food stamp fraud in Michigan to pay for newspaper ads in English and Bengali warning others not to commit food stamp fraud.

The Obama administration approved more than 71,000 retailers to accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits but did not require many of these retailers to undergo background checks, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI).

An investigator in charge of weeding out food stamp fraud in Mississippi is accused of carrying out fraud schemes like the ones he was supposed to stop.

A husband and wife who own two convenience stores in Jacksonville, Florida, were accused of committing food stamp fraud, the Justice Department announced Monday.

A federal judge sentenced a Pennsylvania store owner to 21 months in prison and ordered him to pay $1.7 million to the federal government on Monday for conducting a food stamp fraud scheme.

Florida’s welfare agency fired 31 of its employees accused of fraudulently obtaining food stamp benefits during Hurricane Irma in 2017.

A vice mayor of a Tennessee town is one of three people accused of carrying out an alleged food stamp fraud conspiracy.

A former NAACP leader in Washington state whose life unraveled after she was exposed as a white woman pretending to be black has been charged with welfare fraud.

A lawyer for the Ohio butchers claimed Thursday that the owner’s brother committed nearly $3.5 million in food stamp fraud, not the owners.

The owners of an Ohio butcher shop are accused of carrying out a $3.5 million food stamp fraud scheme over eight years.

A Rhode Island deputy sheriff has been accused of taking food stamp benefits while raking in a tax-free state salary.

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a Ghanian national convicted of carrying out a $300,000 food stamp fraud scheme to eight months behind bars Friday.

Federal investigators uncovered $8.4 million in food stamp fraud at an Ohio meat delivery business, according to recently unsealed federal court filings.

The District of Columbia’s health department is ditching a taxpayer-funded ad campaign urging the public to report food stamp fraud.

A Detroit, Michigan, shopkeeper pleaded guilty Tuesday to orchestrating a $2 million food stamp fraud scheme.

A South Carolina man was sentenced to prison and owes the government $1 million for committing food stamp fraud.

Florida law enforcement officials at the federal, state, and local levels busted nearly 200 people for food stamp fraud as part of an undercover investigation.

More than 35,000 U.S. retailers trafficked more than $1 billion in food stamp benefits a year over a period of three years, a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) found.

Two Tennessee men have been accused of running a food stamp fraud scheme in which they traded food stamp benefits for cash and heroin.

A judge sentenced an Oregon minimart owner to nearly two years behind bars after he was convicted of carrying out $189,000 worth of food stamp fraud.

The state of Utah will be investigating polygamous Mormon sect members for allegedly misusing food stamps after an FBI raid in 2016 uncovered food stamp fraud within the sect.

A Tennessee meat market owner is accused of carrying out a $1.2 million food stamp fraud scheme where he traded benefits for cash.

A judge sentenced a Baltimore shopkeeper last week to 27 months behind bars for trafficking $1.5 million in food stamps.

A list of the seven biggest government crackdowns of food stamp fraud in 2017 under the Trump administration.

Federal prosecutors are accusing both the owner and the manager of a convenience store in Guam of committing food stamp fraud.

The FBI released surveillance video of a fundamentalist Mormon sect carrying out an $11 million food stamp fraud scheme after its ringleader had been sentenced to prison.

A Ghanian national who pleaded guilty Thursday to conducting nearly $300,000 worth of food stamp fraud may face deportation.

An Iraqi immigrant who owned a halal market in Portland, Maine, pleaded guilty to using his store to commit millions of dollars in food stamp fraud.

A judge sentenced an Ohio millionaire known as the “Food Stamp Millionaire” to 30 days behind bars for welfare fraud.

Twelve Floridians have been charged with running an alleged $20 million food stamp fraud scheme in one of the “largest” food stamp fraud crackdowns in history, according to the Justice Department.

Three men are going to prison after they were convicted of engaging in a $1.2 million food stamp fraud scheme in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

An Ohio millionaire has been found guilty of welfare fraud in court Friday after he fraudulently collected food stamps and Medicaid benefits.

Two store owners in Tacoma, Washington, have been charged for allegedly carrying out $200,000 worth of food stamp fraud over 18 months.

A federal judge sentenced a Kentucky woman to 66 months behind bars for engaging in nearly $409,000 worth of food stamp fraud.

Seven South Carolina women who received food stamps as part of a $5 million food stamp fraud scheme pleaded guilty to defrauding the government of more than $20,000 at a store in Rock Hill.