Think about the last time you stood in the grocery store and really felt it.
The number at the bottom of the receipt keeps climbing, a cart that used to cost eighty dollars somehow costs a hundred and thirty now, and you quietly put something back on the shelf before you reach the register. You do the math in your head the whole drive home. You work hard and you pay your taxes, and still you have to think twice before you can fill your own refrigerator.
Now let me show you where some of your money is actually going.
O'Keefe Media Group released the first part of a new undercover investigation. Our team walked into bodegas and smoke shops in New York City wearing hidden cameras. And one after another, we caught the clerks swiping government EBT cards — the cards your taxes pay for to help feed hungry families — to buy kratom, a drug with opioid-like effects. Not food. Drugs.
This is your money they are spending, and you can help us put a stop to it right now.
It happened with one clerk after another, all of it captured on camera, in their own words. "You do what you want with it," one of them said about the cash.
This program is called SNAP — food stamps — and it costs the country more than $100 billion every year, of which the government admitted that $10.1 billion went straight out the door in improper payments last year alone. A USDA investigator says the theft could run as high as $12 billion every year, and that is only the money they are willing to admit to.
Sit with that for a moment. At the very moment you are putting groceries back on the shelf, someone else is standing at a counter buying narcotics with a benefits card that you paid for — your work, your paycheck, your family's money, handed to people who game the system and contribute nothing in return.
Stand with us today and help us fund this fight.
This is the kind of fraud that never gets exposed, because the people gaming it are counting on no one to look. We looked. And this is only Part 1.
An investigation like this does not stop after a single video, and ours is only just getting started. Our team has to keep going back in, city after city, counter after counter, wearing the cameras and taking the risk, while our lawyers review every frame to make sure it holds up in the open, and none of that comes cheap.
Will you sponsor this investigation with $25, $50, or whatever you can afford right now? Help us follow the fraud all the way to the top.
You already pay for this fraud-laced program with your taxes, so let's finally make sure you get the truth about where that money actually goes.
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