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The Brief Jonathan Dupiton was sentenced to seven years in prison for a $3.8 million unemployment fraud scheme. The Atlanta podcaster used stolen identities to file hundreds of false claims during the pandemic. Dupiton was living in a halfway house for a previous fraud conviction when the new crimes began. An Atlanta podcaster has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison after being convicted of using stolen identities to obtain millions of dollars in unemployment insurance benefits. [snip] Prosecutors say that in 2020, Dupiton was completing a federal sentence at a halfway house for a previous fraud conviction targeting...

65% of Haitian non-citizen households are on welfare. They are draining our resources, making America weaker and poorer. It is absolutely idiotic to give them backdoor amnesty by extending TPS.

From millionaires to overseas foreigners, from NFL players to luxury car owners, our money is going to everyone but us. ou’d think that the recent find of 34,000 deceased North Carolinians still registered to vote would be bad enough, but Epoch Times reported 5,000 deceased people are also receiving SNAP benefits. This sounds like the plot of a B-rate horror movie: “Night of the Voting/Eating Dead.” SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program providing benefits to people, like food stamps. USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins stated that SNAP is one of the “most corrupt, dysfunctional programs” in U.S. history, with 80%...

"You know, that's wrong! That's wrong! ... Now I'm being told what I can buy and can't buy, and I don't think that's right." "I love my fruit, I love my sweets too!: Is someone going to tell her that fruit is loaded with sugar?? On Monday, Florida changed its state welfare policy to exclude junk food from being purchased with SNAP funds. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is meant to help needy people buy food by using tax money to give them supplemental nutrition. The state of Florida is not telling residents that they can't buy soda and ice...

Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins In just ONE state, 14,000 individuals receiving SNAP benefits were driving LUXURY VEHICLES! 🚗 3 Bentleys 🚗 3 Ferraris 🚗 11 Lamborghinis 🚗 59 Maseratis 🚗 141 Porsches 🚗 244 Alfa Romeos 🚗 306 Land Rovers 🚗 2,098 Teslas And this is just in ONE STATE. We need to defend our nutrition programs for those most in need, not for scammers gaming the system. These individuals are taking advantage of the American taxpayer. And together with @VP’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, this ends NOW. 4.3M Americans have been moved off of SNAP — but more...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is ramping up efforts to crack down on food stamp fraud nationwide, targeting what officials say is a loophole allowing some wealthy individuals to qualify for government benefits. Secretary Brooke Rollins posted on X this week that a single state has 14,000 individuals on SNAP benefits who also drive luxury vehicles like Ferraris, Bentleys and Lamborghinis. She warned fraudsters the USDA is working to close a loophole under the Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility policy used to qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits despite having the financial means to purchase cars for hundreds of...

“What am I supposed to buy now—just basics? None of the snacks go through on EBT.” “I’m at checkout and it keeps declining—now I gotta use my OWN hard earned money for food." The level of fraud and waste that went unnoticed for years is staggering. 1:14 VIDEO AT LINK OF WOMAN B!TCHING ABOUT EBT NOT PAYING FOR JUNK FOODS................

Tamica Brown, has been arrested in Florida after she reportedly stole more than $120,000 in SNAP benefits from over 200 victims. Brown allegedly drained people's accounts using stolen EBT card numbers. She then bought various store products and would resell them on street corners. But Democrats told me there’s no fraud?!

PITTSBURGH — Two Pittsburgh business owners are accused of stealing food benefits and turning them into profit. Investigators with the Attorney General’s office call it a fencing operation, where someone buys and resells stolen goods for profit. On Monday, the AG’s office issued a warrant for the arrest of a husband and wife who were reportedly stealing from the federal government. “You’re robbing from the taxpayer that’s working so hard,” Mike Ichimura said. Shoppers like Ichimura were shocked to hear Munir Chaudhri and Rachna Anwar are accused of coming to Sam’s Club on Mount Nebo Road to use stolen EBT...

Screenshot/Rumble/KMOV A Missouri woman on Thursday receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds complained about only being able to buy “real food” with the program, according to St. Louis TV station KMOV. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced Wednesday the approval of a waiver request from Missouri and five other states to restrict the purchase of candy, sugar-sweetened drinks and other items after Oct. 1, 2026. Hannah Moore complained to KMOV reporter John Kipper in a story that the restrictions were “not even cool.” “What is the point of food stamps if it’s just for ‘real food?’” Moore asked. WATCH:...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is slated to review “ALL” its programs to ensure only legal citizens are receiving benefits, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins emphasized on Monday.Rollins made the announcement on December 1st, reminding Americans that USDA already put states “on notice reminding them illegal immigrants and certain non-citizens CAN NOT receive SNAP benefits.”“Right now, we are requiring states turn over recipient data to fight waste, fraud, and abuse. Even though 22 blue states have refused to provide the data, we are using every tool to compel their compliance,” she said, asking what and who they are hiding...

Food stamps were first issued in 1939 as an assistance program to prevent starvation during the Great Depression. But 86 years later, thousands of liquor stores and smoke shops have become approved retailers, increasing the possibility of fraud, new research shows. The longest ever government shutdown, which ended after 43 days of deadlock, thrust the federal food stamp program into the national spotlight as millions of recipients went without benefits. But, it also laid bare many abuses in the system. Even before the shutdown, the Trump administration planned to crack down on fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)...

Whenever you delve into the modern history of internal national conflict you’re bound to come across post-crisis accounts from people who said “We never saw it coming…” or “The violence hit us from nowhere…” Generally speaking, these were the people who weren’t paying attention and they just happened to survive by sheer luck. I think of this dynamic a lot these days. I see a large contingent of American society (perhaps 25% of the population) which has been radicalized or brainwashed beyond all reason or repair. These people (leftists) operate deep within a protective bubble of propaganda and zealotry; they...

As Oklahoma braces for a temporary suspension of SNAP benefits due to the government shutdown, Governor Kevin Stitt is urging nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and everyday Oklahomans to step up and support families in need. In Tulsa and across the state, churches are answering the call. Sheridan Church, for example, is expanding its existing programs, planning food drives and community meals to help families struggling to put groceries on the table. Faith leaders say the demand is already high. Rev. W.R. Casey Jr., President and CEO of the Christian Ministers Alliance, shared that while local farms have donated some supplies, the...

“We would not eat.” That is how disabled U.S. Navy veteran Juan Saro described a life without the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP…About 1.2 million veterans are enrolled now, according to the National Council on Aging. More than 20,000 military families, 213,000 National Guard and Reserve members, and more than 1 million veterans, rely on such benefits, according to Veteran.com. Saro survived a brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from his time in the Navy. He later worked as a sixth-grade teacher. But COVID-related health problems made it impossible to stay in the classroom. The veteran now...

The account "EBT of TikTok" has dozens of videos of entitled Americans complaining that YOU, the taxpayer, aren't feeding them in addition to your own struggling family. Let's start with a woman who says she would have aborted her kids if she knew she wouldn't get food stamps. Look at this next guy, who is wearing a nice hoodie in a nice car while he threatens violence if he can't get some of YOUR tax dollars to shove food down his gullet. [Warning: Language] ALL VIDEOS AT LINK................... Dude looks like he drives a newer car than me! Next, there's...

Republicans in Congress enacting President Donald Trump’s agenda are on the verge of approving a sweeping tax-and-spending cuts package that creates a new, higher hurdle to receive food stamps for tens of thousands of former foster youth. Under the provision, those as young as 18 and living in poverty would have to prove they were employed, training or enrolled in school to be eligible for more than three months on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP. In interviews late tonight, three former foster youth who are leading national voices for their peers — two of whom once relied...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom invoked biblical teachings while criticizing Republican leadership and the Trump administration for the federal government shutdown’s impact on food assistance, arguing that Scripture commands care for the hungry and that Washington is failing that moral test. Speaking Tuesday in Sacramento alongside state Attorney General Rob Bonta and Health and Human Services Secretary Kim Johnson, Newsom cited teachings from Matthew, Isaiah, Luke and Proverbs as evidence that feeding the poor is "core and central to what it is to align to God’s will." "It’s not a suggestion in the Old [and] the New Testament," Newsom said. "These...

SNAP recipients are taking to TikTok and threatening to loot grocery stores if their food stamp payments don’t go through on Nov. 1 due to the government shutdown. “I’ma tell y’all straight up like this, I just got that text that the link is definitely cut the f–k off for November. Y’all better stay the f–k out of my way in these stores because I’m walking out with carts and I’m not paying for s–t,” one angry SNAP recipient fumed on TikTok. Another added: “You know what? Since they wanna take food stamps away, I’m gonna go to f–king Walmart,...

In response to recent articles in mainstream military journals discussing the use of the U.S. Army to quell insurrections on American soil, I offer an alternate vision of the future. Instead of a small town in the South as the flash point, picture instead a score of U.S. cities in the thrall of riots greater than those experienced in Los Angeles in 1965 (Watts), multiple cities in 1968 (MLK assassination), and Los Angeles again in 1992 (Rodney King). New Yorkers can imagine the 1977 blackout looting or the 1991 Crown Heights disturbance. In fact, the proximate spark of the next...