Food stamp fraud/trafficking?

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When you are discovered committing food stamp fraud, you will FIRST be contacted by the food stamp fraud office. Bingo to the attorney you consulted far far too far in advance of any sort of need for it. There is a standard way they work these cases, and usually you will receive a written notice of the investigation, and be asked to report for the investigation, usually at your local office where you sign up. You are in the process of being scammed by somebody or something.

What everyone should understand is that food stamp fraud is not criminal fraud until it has been thoroughly investigated by the food stamp office and recommended to the district attorney for PROSECUTION. And if they did this with every person who commits food stamp fraud, or who MAY have committed food stamp fraud, or is suspected of committing food stamp fraud, we could do away with our court system because all they would be doing is prosecuting food stamp fraud and unemployment fraud and Medicaid fraud, and they'd never have time to prosecute any rapists and thieves and murderers.

I hope by now you have contacted your case worker and determined if there is some sort of legitimate investigative effort opened by the agency. If so, they will most certainly have the name and information about which of their fraud investigators is doing the investigation.

Remember, they do not want to send you to jail. They want to get their assistance dollars back, may suspend your food stamps for a certain number of months as a penalty. BUt they don't start off with "You've committed fraud, go directly to jail!"

This bears repeating.