A Dallas man has been sentenced to a year and a half in federal prison after scamming a summer food program out of millions of dollars.
Federal prosecutors say 47-year-old Michael Anthony Munson claimed to provided over two million children in need with meals from June 2011 through October 2014 through his Heloise Munson Foundation. In reality he served less than a million of these children and took the rest of the money for profit.
According to prosecutors, Munson paid another individual roughly $75,000 to fabricate invoices for milk, juice, and food from a fictitious company, "Janus Wholesale Food, Inc." and to camouflage the scheme.
Munson was sentenced to a year and a half in federal prision after he scammed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Summer Food Service Program out of more than $2.3 million.
"Low-income families across our District count on the Summer Food Service Program to provide their children with nutritious meals," U.S. Attorney Nealy Cox said. "Anyone who takes advantage of a system designed to serve those already struggling will be prosecuted and brought to justice."
Beyond admitting to knowlingly inflating the meal counts for summer food sites his foundation serviced he also gave meal counts for sites that weren't even real.
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