【视频】万斯在 Cincinnati 宣布专责组新战果：查出4,200万美元食品券欺诈 40多人被起诉
Cincinnati——美国副总统万斯10月21日在俄亥俄州 Cincinnati 的联邦调查局（FBI）当地办事处举行记者会，公布其领导的「消除欺诈专责组」最新执法成果：自9月1日加大打击力度以来，联邦方面共查出约4,200万美元补充营养援助计划（SNAP，俗称食品券）欺诈，40多名被告被起诉。
司法部长 Todd Blanche 在记者会上表示，被盗走的4,200万美元本可让近22万美国人吃满整个10月份——这是按农业部（USDA）人均月福利金额折算的数字。他说：「这是蓄意把食物从孩子嘴里夺走。」农业部督察长办公室方面在会上表示，这些计划被欺诈者掏空，赃款还被用于枪支、毒品等其他犯罪活动，使美国社区更不安全。
万斯说：「SNAP 是用来帮助饥饿的孩子吃上饭的，不是用来给 Shawty Dred 这样的人买私人飞机的。」他还回忆了自己少年时在 Middletown 的 Dillman Foods 超市当收银员的第一份工作经历。
本轮被起诉的案件包括：亚特兰大网红说唱歌手 Mercedes New（网名 Shawty Dred）本月被起诉40多项罪名，包括食品券欺诈、邮件欺诈与加重身份盗窃，被控在2025年至2026年间用数百张欺诈借记卡、并以其公司 Shawty Dred LLC 注册为 SNAP 零售商，骗取超过400万美元福利；他已于上周在 Las Vegas 被捕。另有 Jorag Yaseen 与 Rami Kanaan 在俄亥俄州联邦法院被起诉，被控通过设在 Chicago 的食品零售店进行近3,000万美元的虚假电子福利转账（EBT）交易。俄亥俄南区此案（案号 3:26-cr-00099-TMR）指控，两人于2024年2月至2025年4月间，用窃得的俄亥俄州等州 EBT 账户信息处理数千笔虚假交易，并无真实销售发生，预谋损失约2,970万美元，部分赃款被用于购买汽车运往海外；两人被控共谋电汇欺诈、电汇欺诈与共谋洗钱。助理司法部长 Colin McDonald 在发布会上说，两人已于周三早晨在 Chicago 被捕（据 The Center Square 报道）。起诉书仅为指控，被告在被证明有罪前推定无罪。
据福克斯新闻报道，专责组成立以来查出的 SNAP 欺诈累计已达6.41亿美元；1,000多家零售商因刑事贩卖福利等违规被取消资格，近5,000家被暂停资格并合计罚款4,400万美元；执法方面已销毁2,200多台非法销售点设备、停用2,000多个被冒用的零售商授权号码，官方估计由此阻止了超过50亿美元的潜在欺诈交易。
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[Video] Vance Announces Task Force Results in Cincinnati: $42 Million in SNAP Fraud Uncovered, More Than 40 Charged
CINCINNATI — U.S. Vice President JD Vance held a press conference on October 21 at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) field office in Cincinnati, Ohio, announcing the latest results of the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud that he leads: since the crackdown intensified on September 1, federal officials have uncovered about $42 million in fraud against the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and more than 40 defendants have been charged.
Attorney General Todd Blanche said at the press conference that the stolen $42 million could have fed nearly 220,000 Americans for the entire month of October, based on U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data on average monthly benefits per person. "This is a concerted effort to literally take food out of the mouths of children," Blanche said. A USDA Office of Inspector General official said the programs were raided to line the pockets of fraudsters and bankroll other criminal activities such as guns and drugs.
"SNAP exists to help hungry children eat; it does not exist to provide private jets to a guy like Shawty Dred," Vance said. He also recalled his first job working as a cashier at Dillman Foods in Middletown.
Cases charged in this round include Mercedes New, an Atlanta influencer and rapper known as Shawty Dred, indicted this month on more than 40 counts including food stamp fraud, mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, accused of pilfering more than $4 million in benefits between 2025 and 2026 by obtaining hundreds of fraudulent debit cards and making his company, Shawty Dred LLC, a SNAP retailer; he was arrested last week in Las Vegas. In Ohio federal court, Jorag Yaseen and Rami Kanaan were indicted for allegedly stealing almost $30 million in fake electronic benefit transfer (EBT) transactions through their Chicago-based food retail stores. In that Southern District of Ohio case (Case No. 3:26-cr-00099-TMR), the two are accused of processing thousands of sham transactions from February 2024 to April 2025 using stolen EBT account information from Ohio and other states, with no actual sales taking place and an intended loss of about $29.7 million; some of the proceeds allegedly went to buy cars that were shipped overseas. They are charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said at the press conference that the two were arrested in Chicago on Wednesday morning (as reported by The Center Square). An indictment is merely an allegation, and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
According to Fox News, the latest discovery brings the amount of SNAP fraud the task force has uncovered to $641 million. More than 1,000 retailers have been banned from the program for violations including criminal trafficking of benefits, while nearly 5,000 others have been suspended and fined a combined $44 million; officials have destroyed more than 2,200 illegal point-of-sale devices and disabled more than 2,000 compromised retailer authorization numbers, actions officials estimate have prevented more than $5 billion in potential fraudulent transactions.
Related: DHS Launches Large-Scale Crackdown on SNAP Benefit Fraud; ICE Arrests Five in First Wave
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图片来源：图：副总统万斯（左二）10月21日在 Cincinnati 出席「副总统反欺诈专责组」记者会。照片：白宫官方 YouTube 视频画面截图（已裁去底部横幅），美国政府作品、公共领域。 / Vice President JD Vance (second from left) at the Vice President's Fraud Task Force press conference in Cincinnati on October 21, 2026. Still from the official White House YouTube video (bottom banner cropped), U.S. government work, public domain.
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