Overview

• A superseding indictment unsealed on May 29 charges Michael Kehoe, Mohamad Nawafleh, Omar Alrawashdeh, Gamal Obaid, Emad Alrawashdeh and Arlasa Davis with conspiracy to steal government funds and misappropriate USDA benefits.
• Investigators allege Kehoe orchestrated a network that installed about 160 unauthorized EBT terminals in New York-area stores, processing more than $30 million in illicit SNAP transactions since 2019.
• Davis is accused of abusing her USDA access by photographing and selling hundreds of EBT license numbers, enabling over $36 million in fraudulent redemptions at unlicensed retailers.
• The group reportedly submitted roughly 200 falsified USDA applications—some with doctored documents—to obtain terminals for ineligible businesses such as smoke shops.
• USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said the agency is intensifying its partnership with the FBI and Justice Department to root out waste, fraud and abuse in the SNAP program.