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Convenience Store Owner Sentenced to Prison for Food Stamp Fraud

 

BIRMINGHAM – A federal judge this week sentenced a Bessemer grocery store owner to three years and 10 months in prison and ordered him to forfeit $5.2 million to the government for defrauding the food stamp program, structuring cash transactions and laundering money to hide the illegal profit, and evading federal income taxes, […]

Grocer pleads guilty to $5 million food stamp fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, and currency structuring

BIRMINGHAM – A Bessemer grocery store owner pleaded guilty today in federal court to defrauding the food stamp program of more than $5 million, structuring cash transactions and laundering money to hide the illegal profit, and evading federal income taxes, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica […]