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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 1198897" data-attributes="member: 44954">The prison terms for white collar crimes are pathetically short.  Fraud, embezzlement etc. are often committed by rich people, that's why his prison time is so short.When it comes to the money, I don't think he gets to "keep" $300,000.  I think the $700,000 was the total of SNAP money spent illegally, so he let people buy cigarettes or exchange their food stamp money for cash.  The $700,000 would have been used by the people either way, the fraud is that they weren't spending it on food.  What you should be complaining about is that the state isn't going after the people who bought the cigarettes or exchanged the food stamps for cash.   Those people get no punishment, and are still getting SNAP money even though they are just as guilty of fraud as the store owner.</blockquote>