(AP) -- Prosecutors in Tennessee say the owner
of a meat market has been charged with running a $1.2 million fraud
scheme against a federal food assistance program.
The U.S. attorney's office in Memphis said
Tuesday that 59-year-old Guy Randal Stockard has been charged with
defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as
the food stamps program.
A Jan. 11 indictment says Stockard owned
Southern Meat Market in Memphis. Prosecutors say he bought customers'
food assistance program benefits at a discount in exchange for cash. The
indictment says Stockard then redeemed those benefits at full face
value.