Wall Street Journal, December 2025
Federal authorities in Massachusetts on Wednesday charged two men with fraud in a nearly $7 million food stamp scheme, part of what they said was a Trump administration-led effort to crack down on fraud in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Two Boston men are accused of operating tiny, neighboring stores in the city which were reimbursed for SNAP benefits far beyond what would be reasonable for their size. The stores received SNAP reimbursements more typical of a large supermarket—with one of the shops once redeeming $500,000 in a single month, authorities say.
