Yacoub Ali Abdel and Salim Hamideh Doing Business as South Supermarket v. United States

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants Yacoub Ali Abdel and Salim Hamideh d/b/a South Supermarket (“Supermarket”) appeal from a judgment for the Government entered after a bench trial reviewing de novo a decision of a Food Stamp Review Officer of the Department of Agriculture which disqualified Supermarket from the Food Stamp Program for six months because it accepted food stamps as payment for non-food items, which were ineligible for purchase with food stamps. Two arguments are presented: (1) that four investigative reports were erroneously admitted in evidence under the “business…