{"id":204533,"date":"2026-04-21T10:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204533\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:36:07","slug":"new-york-man-indicted-for-fraudulently-obtaining-167k-worth-of-groceries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204533\/","title":{"rendered":"New York man indicted for fraudulently obtaining $167K worth of groceries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CONCORD, New Hampshire (WGME) &#8212; A New York man is accused of fraudulently getting about $167,000 worth of groceries from Hannaford Supermarkets across New England.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice says 33-year-old Clinton Rathan was arrested on April 16 in New York and has been charged with four counts of wire fraud.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, Rathan placed more than 500 pick-up orders for groceries through the Hannaford app across a seven-month period in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He used fake identities and fake debit and credit cards to place the orders.<\/p>\n<p>After Rathan picked up the grocery orders, officials say Hannaford tried to process the debit or credit card information, but the cards were all declined.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>Rathan has been released on $15,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in federal court in Concord, New Hampshire, on April 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CONCORD, New Hampshire (WGME) &#8212; A New York man is accused of fraudulently getting about $167,000 worth of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-204533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}