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Two Massachusetts men have been arrested in what prosecutors allege was a fraud scheme involving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

Antonio Bonheur, 74, of Mattapan and Saul Alisme, 21, of Hyde Park, were each charged with one count of food stamp fraud, according to a Department of Justice news release.

The Justice Department reported the scheme netted millions, with SNAP redemptions of $100,000 – $500,000 per month.

Bonheur owned the 150-square-foot Jesula Variety Store. Alisme owned the 500-square-foot Saul Mache Mixe Store. Both were in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston.

Prosecutors said the level of SNAP redemptions at both stores was exceedingly high, with many months topping $300,000. The release said a full-service supermarket in the area redeems about $82,000 per month in SNAP benefits.

Further, more than 70 percent of transactions were for $95 and above, which is more typical for a supermarket than a small neighborhood storefront.

The release said that undercover observers saw SNAP benefits exchanged for cash and liquor exchanged for SNAP benefits.

Internal investigative files show FBI agents and federal prosecutors attempted to investigate a wide range of activities involving the State Department under then-Secretary of State Clinton a decade ago, including whether foreign donations made to the Clinton Foundation were used as improper influence on U.S. foreign policy.

The FBI and DOJ inquiries were repeatedly shut down by FBI and DOJ leadership.

Just the News reported earlier this week about Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s release of a timeline written by federal investigators laying out the repeated political obstruction those agents faced from their own bureau bosses and the Justice Department during the 2016 election and beyond as they probed whether Hillary Clinton engaged in a pay-to-play corruption scheme involving her family foundation.

The documents turned over by FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi show that career agents and line prosecutors at the FBI and DOJ believed the Clinton Foundation saga may have been a criminal one, but orders from leaders such as then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe slow-walked and stonewalled the inquiry to the point where it was hobbled.

An internal investigative timeline stated that the FBI’s New York Field Office “initiated a Preliminary Investigation” on January 22, the Little Rock Field Office “initiated a Full Field Investigation” on January 27, and the Washington Field Office “initiated a Preliminary Investigation" on January 29, 2016.

Another internal timeline of the investigation said that the FBI’s Little Rock Field Office “submits case opening requesting full field investigation regarding Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, Uranium One, Uranium One Americas, Frank Giustra, Ian Telfer.”

7. So they'e begun jailing judges.

Frasier Balzov (4,808 posts)
1. Absolutely outrageous indictment and verdict.
Reply to SouthBayDem (Original post)
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 12:27 AM

Can't understand why there wasn't more pushback against the Trump government in this case by the locals who had been impaneled.

Judge Dugan righteously stood for a principle I can wholeheartedly agree with.

You don't send agents to ambush people who are complying with their legal and civic duty to show up to court.

Even if the judge in the case imposes a de minimis sentence, Hannah Dugan will be disbarred because of her felony conviction.

Trump is the cause of so much injustice and suffering. May the devil take him away from us asap.

Skittles (169,158 posts)
4. meanwhile
Reply to SouthBayDem (Original post)
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 05:27 AM
repukes are A-OK with fishermen being blown up without any real due process

orangecrush (28,027 posts)
7. So they'e begun jailing judges.