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“These defendants callously preyed on the needy, disabled, and elderly. My heart breaks for them," said U.S. Attorney Leigha Simonton.DALLAS — A man who admitted to defrauding thousands of people via a scam involving food stamps has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, federal prosecutors say.
The SNAP program uses federal tax dollars to subsidize food and household needs for low-income families. Typically, recipients of SNAP program benefits use electronic benefit transfer, or EBT, cards to make purchases for household needs and food. The scam also involved two others — Saybah Keihn, 48, and Margretta Jabbeh, 43, who have also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
They then used EBT cards programmed with stolen SNAP account information – illegally obtained by placing so-called “skimming” machines at point-of-sale terminals in stores throughout the country, according to court documents. The scammers would take the fraudulent benefit transfer cards and use them at their own food stores.
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