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Scammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix It — but Won’t.

Jovelle Tamayo/ProPublica. Source images: Zaydee Sanchez/ProPublica, Tina Russell for ProPublica, MPfoto71/Alamy. It wasn’t the kind of call a grocery store gets every day. A customer with a thick Eastern European accent was on the phone saying he wanted to buy several thousand cans of Red Bull.

Scammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix It — but Won’t.

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