🚨 USDA Special Investigations Unit & Federal law enforcement partners conducted operations to target criminals engaged in stealing SNAP benefits.
— Dept. of Agriculture (@USDA) May 3, 2025
These operations resulted in numerous arrests & high value evidence, safeguarding American tax dollars 👊 https://t.co/wHT5PTOBw8 pic.twitter.com/BLFR8lh4tE
U.S. Department of Agriculture Special Investigations Unit, in conjunction with Federal law enforcement partners, conducted operations this week to target criminals engaged in defrauding American taxpayers by stealing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
“Fraud will not be tolerated by the Trump Administration. I want to thank our hardworking law enforcement officers who work every day to ensure federal benefits are properly distributed and safeguard taxpayer dollars from criminals,” said Secretary Rollins. “President Trump is restoring law and order. At USDA we are fighting back against fraud and misuse of taxpayer dollars and ensuring those who need and qualify for benefits, actually receive them.”
Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services John Walk joined investigators from the Department of Homeland Security in Los Angeles this week to participate in targeted law enforcement operations. Theft of funds on SNAP EBT cards has dramatically increased in recent years. In such cases, criminals steal funds loaded onto EBT cards that SNAP recipients rely on to buy food by surreptitiously installing card skimmers, and cloning point of sale terminals enabling them to steal publicly funded benefits. Recent investigations show that international criminal organizations are heavily involved and benefiting from SNAP fraud.
“These are truly sick and depraved individuals who are stealing food from low-income Americans for their own profit. It is especially disturbing when international criminal organizations siphon tax dollars away from SNAP beneficiaries to fund their own illicit activities. I commend Secretary Rollins attention in fighting this fraud,” said Acting Deputy Under Secretary John Walk.
This week’s operations were part of the largest effort to combat EBT fraud in United States Secret Service history. The Secret Service, in partnership with the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) El Camino Real Financial Crime Task Force, surveilled over 100 locations in southern California, including multiple SNAP retailers. These operations resulted in numerous arrests and the collection of high value evidence. The USDA Special Investigations Unit of the Food and Nutrition Service has investigators strategically located across the country focused on fighting SNAP retail fraud to safeguard American tax dollars from lining the pockets of criminals, including complicit retailers abusing SNAP.
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The whole current government is crooked and it's to ensure they get rich off we the people.
True
I sometimes wonder why no President before Trump bothered to look into the SNAP fraud. I can't believe they did not know it was going on. Did any of them even care about the US citizen?
Nope. They only care about how much they can steal from the people.
Hahahahahaha Martha........NO, they don't give a damn. They don't care about waste, fraud, as long as they are getting fat they will ignore and look the other way!
They need to look at all the Muslim gas station and convenient store owners......they are all in on the scam!
YEP, MARCH ON IN , SWEEP THE COUNTERS BARE AND PUT THEM IN "THE LOCK UP".
These bastards are slaughtering lambs from the Amish and selling the meat from their gas stations. They are also smuggling cigarettes over state lines! Amazing how they figure out to do all the illegal stuff and hope to get away with it!