During a 2022 press briefing, U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger outlined federal charges against 47 people accused of participating in a $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune/Getty Images)
According to the legislative auditor, in 2021, nearly four out of every 10 dollars sent to nonprofit meal sponsors in Minnesota flowed to Feeding Our Future alone.
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Taken together, the numbers show that Feeding Our Future was expanding faster, adding more sites and collecting a vastly larger share of federal meal funds than any comparable organization, long before state regulators intervened.
The Feeding Our Future scandal exposes major failures in Minnesota’s oversight of federal meal funds. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)
And the oversight failures were just as striking.
Flawed applications sailed through, complaints were never investigated, and the nonprofit kept expanding despite repeated red flags.
What's more, in the wake of a years-long $250 million welfare fraud scheme, Minnesota taxpayers will now finance a pricey state-level cleanup effort, effectively paying for the failure twice after state officials missed warnings.
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota has said in the past that he is ultimately accountable for the fraud that took place under his administration.
Amanda covers the intersection of business and geopolitics for Fox News Digital.
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