U.S. Attorney Leah Foley announced federal charges against Antonio Bonheur and Saul Alisme for large-scale trafficking of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Foley said the charges allege the two men turned a program designed to feed families into a multi-million-dollar criminal enterprise involving SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps.
According to Foley, both defendants are charged with one count of food stamp fraud as alleged in the charging documents.
She said the case involves allegations that the defendants abused a government safety-net program for personal financial gain by exchanging SNAP benefits for cash and keeping the money.
Foley identified Bonheur as a naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti who owned the Jesula Variety Store.
She identified Alisme as a lawful permanent resident from Haiti who owned the Saul Mache Mixe Store.
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Foley said the two businesses were co-located within a single storefront in Boston.
Foley stated that the two businesses were not supermarkets or full-service grocery stores and said it would be a stretch to call them convenience stores.
She said the Jesula Variety Store was less than 150 square feet in size and the Saul Mache Mixe Store was approximately 500 square feet.
By contrast, she said supermarkets can range from 20,000 to 60,000 square feet, have a dozen or more registers, and employ numerous employees.
According to Foley, both the Jesula Variety Store and the Saul Mache Mixe Store had one register, no carriages, no hand baskets, and very little food for sale.
She said one legitimate supermarket in the same area redeems approximately $80,000 in SNAP benefits per month over a 20-month period.
Foley said that over that same period, the Jesula Variety Store redeemed between three and six times that amount monthly, despite lacking the space, inventory, customers, or infrastructure to support such transactions.
She said the Saul Mache Mixe Store redeemed over $120,000 in SNAP benefits in the last six months.
Foley said there was no plausible way SNAP-eligible food could have been purchased from these stores for that length of time and said the two stores are alleged to have illicitly trafficked nearly $7 million in SNAP benefits.
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