district judge henry when the kids this is the resident anita macklemore and her two kids are three of the forty four million people in america who depend on food stamps to do enough food to eat unfortunately when bill clinton ended welfare as we know it back in one thousand nine hundred six a new federal law was created that forbids anyone who's been convicted of a drug felony from receiving food stamps benefits for life so with her and her kids facing starvation and you know macklemore was being convicted of a drug charge in the past lied under application to receive benefits and u.s. district judge henry wingate figured lying to your family should get you three and a half years behind bars that's what he sentenced macklemore to last week and that's think progress reported also last week a bank teller who perpetrated a three million dollar mortgage fraud scandal mississippi was sentenced to just two and a half years in prison so to recap lying on your application to feed your starving family gets you in prison one year longer than running a multimillion dollar mortgage scheme or some