Desha Morris used the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as her personal cash machine, defrauding it out of more than $335,000.
Now the 39-year-old Indianapolis resident is a convicted criminal, sentenced to five years in prison for SNAP fraud.
“Her scheme jeopardized access to food assistance for those in genuine need and exposed innocent individuals to potential long-term damage to their credit and financial security,” Tom Wheeler, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, said (1).
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Between April 2020 and July 2022, Morris filed dozens of bogus SNAP applications using stolen IDs — even posing as different applicants during phone interviews with Indiana’s Family and Social Services Administration…