An employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been charged with involvement in a $66 million fraud scheme that targeted the government’s SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) program. Five others are accused of helping mastermind what amounted to an inside job to steal tens of millions over about six years.

Government investigators said the “sprawling fraud and bribery scheme” involved an intricate and detailed process of getting access to government accounts to illegally initiate food assistance transactions and then capture the payments. A government release on the case describes it as “one of the largest food stamp frauds in U.S. history.”

U.S. Attorney Perry Carbone said, “This fraud was made possible when USDA employee Arlasa Davis betrayed the public trust by selling confidential government information to the very criminals she was supposed to catch.”

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