Fugitive SNAP Fraudster Caught in India | US News

0:00On September 8th, so, word on the street is that a guy named Mangy Singh Beatty, who was on the run from the FBI for allegedly ripping off the snap. Programme has finally been nabbed. We're talking about some serious dough here, like over $600,000 that he supposedly swindled. He was running a grocery store out into coma, Washington, and the feds say he was cooking the books from around 20, 24 to 20. 25. The whole operation went down for a while before he decided to dip out of the country. He bounced sometime last year, and the FBI figured he was heading back to India. Now after almost a year of being a fugitive, he's been arrested there. The Justice Department is working on getting him back to the states to face the music for charges like wire fraud and snap benefits fraud. It's pretty wild how these investigations can span consonants. This arrest is actually a pretty big deal, because it's the fifth person they've caught from their most wanted fraudsters list, which is only about three months old.

1:00These five suspects are accused of a combined $2 billion in fraud, which is just astronomical. The whole point of that, most wanted fraudsters list, was to shine a spotlight on these big-time fugitives, and Betty was definitely on their radar. The assistant attorney general, even chimed in, saying, this arrest proves the Justice Department's reach is global. They're not playing around, and we'll keep working with the FBI to track down these fraudsters, no matter where they try to lay low. This has been US News Today, powered by AI.