Dean Amley, owner of Egyptian Corner, located at the corner of Wall and Main Street, was sentencd yesterday to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay over half a million dollars in restitution for fraudulently accepting SNAP benefits. From my reading of the release, between 2014 and 2020, Amley and his employees would buy SNAP benefits from recipients for less than face value, paying them in cash and using the fraudlently acquired SNAP benfits to purchase inventory for the store or allow them to purchase prohibited items such as tobacco and alcohol. USDA OIG and the FBI all co-operated in the investigation.
I am bemused by the reference to the Truump administration created National Fraud Enforcement Division at the end of the release, implying it has some impact on the case which, given that Amley pled guilty in March of 2025, over a years before the creation of the Division, is just not so. Still it is good to fraud prosecuted, no matter who does it.
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