AAG McDonald: As Alleged, Guzman Stole the Identity of a U.S. Citizen to Obtain $22K in SNAP Benefits, $98K in Medicaid, and $45K in Section 8

RUSH EXCERPT:
McDONALD: "You’ve heard the top-line figures from today’s first-ever nationwide SNAP benefits enforcement surge The individual cases show in even greater detail the scope of deception greed, and exploitation we are confronting in these cases and I will give three short examples First, right here in the Southern District of Ohio under the leadership of U.S. Attorney Dom Jurase an indictment has been returned against defendants Jorag Yassin and Rami Kanan Based on the allegations these defendants used their food stores to generate thousands of fake food purchases ultimately resulting in a loss of approximately 20-nine point seven million dollars to the United States Yassin and Kanan are charged with multiple felonies and were arrested just a few hours ago this morning in Chicago Second prosecutors in the District of Massachusetts have filed a criminal complaint against Rodolfo Armando Fernandez Guzman As alleged Guzman was a two-time felon and a Dominican national He is suspected to be unlawfully in the United States Based on the allegations Guzman stole the identity of a United States citizen to fraudulently obtain 20 thousand 20-two thousand in SNAP benefits 90-eight thousand in Medicaid benefits and forty-five thousand in Section eight housing benefits This is one of the many cases charged this year involving suspected illegal aliens stealing the identities of Americans to then steal from America The third case I will highlight In the Eastern District of Pennsylvania multiple defendants have been indicted on a range of charges including snap fraud Social Security fraud, kidnapping, transportation of individuals for illicit sexual activity and other crimes Based on these allegations the scheme involved grooming and then luring intellectually disabled women to live with them for the purpose of controlling their Social Security and SNAP benefits The defendants in this case were arrested last Wednesday and they will be answering these serious allegations in federal court These cases and allegations reveal the scope of deception greed, and human exploitation permeating SNAP fraud schemes These are not paperwork crimes"