Three Indicted for $780,000 Food Stamp Fraud from Store in Cleveland
August 14, 2013
August 14, 2013
CLEVELAND, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio issued the following news release:
Three men were indicted today on charges that they engaged in a decade-long conspiracy to defraud the food stamp and Women, Infants and Children programs out of more than $780,000 by trading the vouchers for cash and restricted items such as beer and cigarettes from a store in Cleveland, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
Three men were indicted today on charges that they engaged in a decade-long conspiracy to defraud the food stamp and Women, Infants and Children programs out of more than $780,000 by trading the vouchers for cash and restricted items such as beer and cigarettes from a store in Cleveland, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.