A business owner from Essex County, New Jersey, will serve 27 months in federal prison after a court imposed the sentence in connection with a fraud scheme targeting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
The scheme, which the Justice Department said involved losses exceeding $2 million, was directed at SNAP, the federal food assistance program. Essex County is located in northeastern New Jersey.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the defendant operated a business in Essex County at the time of the offenses. The department's announcement confirmed both the prison term and the scale of the fraud, placing total losses from the SNAP scheme above $2 million.