{"id":2564201,"date":"2026-02-03T18:39:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/replay-doj-announces-charges-in-snap-covid-19-unemployment-benefits-fraud-scheme-5980174\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:41:23","slug":"replay-doj-announces-charges-in-snap-covid-19-unemployment-benefits-fraud-scheme-5980174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/replay-doj-announces-charges-in-snap-covid-19-unemployment-benefits-fraud-scheme-5980174\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Announces Charges in SNAP, COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits Fraud Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freplay-doj-announces-charges-in-snap-covid-19-unemployment-benefits-fraud-scheme-5980174%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2564201&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh United States Attorney\u2019s Office announced charges in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/only-black-lives-matter-backed-federal-candidate-charged-with-wire-fraud-scheme-involving-campaign-funds\/\" title=\"Only Black Lives Matter-Backed Federal Candidate Charged With Wire Fraud Scheme Involving Campaign Funds\">fraud scheme involving<\/a> more than 100 stolen identities used to obtain over $1 million in SNAP benefits and COVID-19 unemployment benefits. The charges were disclosed at an 11 a.m. ET press conference on February 3, 2026. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >alleged scheme spanned<\/a> more than half a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-legislature-introduces-first-in-nation-resolution-to-protect-against-democrat-court-packing\/\" title=\"Arizona Legislature Introduces First-In-Nation Resolution To Protect Against Democrat &#039;Court Packing&#039;\">dozen states<\/a>, and the details is associated with EpochTV Live and The Epoch Times.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>DOJ Announces Charges in SNAP, COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits Fraud Scheme<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"channelInfo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/epochtv\/live\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/epochtv\/live\"><\/p>\n<p>EpochTV Live<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Feb-03-2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"post_content\">\n<p data-start=\"189\" data-end=\"505\">The United States Attorney&rsquo;s Office holds a press conference at 11 a.m. ET on Feb. 3 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/search-on-for-2-parents-charged-in-michigan-school-shooting\/\" title=\"Search on for 2 Parents Charged in Michigan School Shooting\">announce charges<\/a> in connection with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alarming-video-furious-somali-men-pour-out-of-daycare-and-accost-journalist-investigating-where-2-25-million-in-grant-money-went-4\/\" title=\"Alarming Video: Furious Somali Men Pour out of &#039;Daycare&#039; and Accost Journalist Investigating Where .25 Million in Grant Money Went\">alleged fraud scheme involving<\/a> more than 100 stolen identities used to obtain more than $1 million in SNAP and COVID-19 unemployment benefits across more than half a do&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read More<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOJ charges SNAP\/COVID unemployment fraud (Feb 3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":2564202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/11\/09\/id5942211-SNAP-AP25311542469710-1080x720.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543,33651],"tags":[3774,7076,11892,72868],"class_list":["post-2564201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","category-the-western-journal","tag-covid-19","tag-doj","tag-snap","tag-unemployment-fraud-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/11\/09\/id5942211-SNAP-AP25311542469710-1080x720.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564205,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564201\/revisions\/2564205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2564202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}