Oct 7, 2026 · 9K views · 📍 Seattle, WA · Lamb Seafood, Seattle, WA
Nick Shirley goes undercover in Seattle with citizen journalists to expose EBT (food stamp) card fraud, where cards are sold for cash at a discount, often for drugs. He films a $120 EBT card being rung up for a single can of Spam and some sushi at a market, confronts the alleged fraudster and store staff, and the operation ends in chaos when a security guard's gun is stolen and a mob forms.
Programs involved: SNAP (food stamps / EBT)
Figures below are claims made in the video, shown with the status stated there — this site does not verify them. Disclaimer
Annual taxpayer funding of the food stamp program cited as context
“more than $100 billion in your taxes fund this program”
Stated by Nick Shirley
Monthly balance a person said was on their food stamp card
“How much do you get on food stamps? 306 dollars”
Stated by Street interviewee
Cash price a card holder would sell a food stamp card for
“Would you sell for $120? Yes”
Stated by Street interviewee
Amount charged to EBT card for one can of Spam and some sushi at Lamb Seafood
“one can of Spam and some sushi cost $120”
Stated by Nick Shirley
Cash offered for a $120-balance EBT card (50 cents on the dollar)
“I'll give you 60. 60? 60.”
Stated by Alleged buyer
~ = name reconstructed from garbled auto-captions; verify before quoting.
All figures are as stated in the video — most are allegations, not adjudicated findings. Every dollar figure links to the timestamp where it is said. Extraction QA: All six claims are accurately quoted and classified against the transcript. Entities are all present in the transcript, with Jonathan Cho reasonably normalized to Jonathan Choe. No hallucinations detected; extraction quality is high.