$42 million in food stamp fraud, more than 40 people charged across 13 federal districts. On Wednesday at the FBI office in Cincinnati, Vice President Vance and Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the first nationwide crackdown on SNAP fraud, uncovered in a seven-week surge that began September 1, per the Justice Department and Local 12. One case: an Atlanta rapper charged with a $4.4 million scheme run through more than 350 accounts opened with stolen identities, who bragged online about a private jet. Vance: "We're done looking the other way when it comes to fraud." Tuesday the bounty. Wednesday the arrests. Chuck reads it.
Also in today's episode:
– An Austin woman sues Torchy's Tacos over a cow's tooth in her order; the taco is called The Democrat (KVUE, Fox 7)
– A polling firm admits nearly all its surveys were fabricated, and the New York Times pulls 15 of them from its averages (Fox News, Washington Times)
– Cook moves Minnesota's open Senate seat from Likely to Lean Democrat as Michele Tafoya closes on Peggy Flanagan (Washington Post, CNN)
– A New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay the state $25 billion over Facebook privacy; Meta will appeal (AP, CBS News)
– The world's central banks keep buying gold, led by China and Poland (World Gold Council, Kitco)
– Bill Clinton makes his first campaign stop of the cycle at a Hollywood, Florida, church for David Jolly (CBS Miami, Breitbart)
– A schoolteacher's 1904 book, Poems Every Child Should Know, still free online, still the cure (The Epoch Times)
There is a famine of truth in our land. Eight stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
