Operation Stampede, which is being called the largest food-stamp trafficking takedown in history in terms of financial loss, led to federal charges being filed last week against 22 Florida store owners or operators, including one convenience-store owner, in connection with schemes to illegally redeem food-stamp benefits for cash.
Allegedly, the defendants fraudulently obtained more than $13 million dollars in EBT deposits for transactions in which the stores did not provide food, including one convenience store that allegedly redeemed more than $1.1 million in EBT food-stamp benefits, more than $1 million more than the average convenience store in Florida during this period, according to the indictment.
Read more and see video of the historic bust: Caught on Tape: Feds Bust Biggest Food Stamp Fraud in History
