Antonio Bonheur ran a 150-square-foot storefront in Mattapan that pulled more SNAP money in a month than a full supermarket. Federal prosecutors say the store had no refrigerator, almost no food, and a bank structure built to hide what the register was actually doing.
For six years, a small grocery in Lynchburg, Virginia ran a second business behind the first one. The customers came in for cash. The register did the rest.
Maria Roza Tomescu was sentenced this week to 28 months for cloning the EBT cards of food-stamp recipients across five states. The machine she fed turned hunger benefits into bulk baby formula and energy drinks, then into cash.
By Elena Ruiz · May 1
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