Michigan’s attorney general says a state retail crime unit has busted an alleged multi-million-dollar interstate food stamp ring.
Attorney General Dana Nessel says the case involves some eight thousand EBT cards, primarily from California, to purchase four million dollars of merchandise in Michigan. Nessel says that merchandise often gets resold.
“Might begin in Michigan...might go to another state....often times of course will end up being sold online...which of course can happen anywhere.” said Nessel.
Nessel says retail fraud costs Michigan businesses over a billion dollars a year.