We add another item to the ever-growing list of scandals involving state welfare programs. KARE-11 TV has been on top of the saga involving Evergreen Recovery, Inc., a drug- and…
That represents a 49 percent increase over the current level of $122,225. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports: Hennepin County Board members are ready to give themselves a 49% pay hike…
Court filings entered this week in the Feeding Our Future fraud case suggest that a 19th guilty plea may be entered next month. As you recall, some 70 defendants have…
In a federal courtroom in Minneapolis in early June, a jury found five of seven defendants guilty of fraud and other charges in the first trial of the “Feeding Our…
In an order issued late last week, Federal District Judge Nancy Brasel rescheduled the upcoming trails for many of the remaining 40 or so Feeding Our Future defendants to dates…
Abdimajid Mohamed Nur pled guilty today in federal court in downtown Minneapolis to one count of bribery of a juror in the Feeding Our Future case. It’s the first guilty…
After lawmakers raised Health and Human Services (HHS) spending in the 2023 session by over $6 billion, welfare is now the fastest-growing expenditure in the Minnesota state budget. Between 2024…
Deena Winter of MN Reformer names five names in a report today linking Feeding Our Future defendants with state-funded autism clinics. She reports: Five of the 70 defendants in the…
We are officially adding another item to our Scandal Tracker 2024 list. This latest scandal involves the state’s private autism clinics, which are not licensed by the state, but receive…
A “plea agreement hearing” has been scheduled for July 23 in Federal court in Minneapolis. The always-alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 was the first to report on this new development…
That’s exactly the question posed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune in a remarkable article published today under the headline: Many millions lost. Is the Walz administration taking fraud and waste…
This morning, in the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, Abdiaziz Shafii Farah was formally arraigned in the $120,000 juror bribery case arising from last month’s fraud trial in the Feeding…
In May, I wrote about Madison Equities putting ten of its commercial properties in downtown St. Paul up for sale, including the First National Bank building, the Park Square Court…
Yesterday, noting the squeeze on gas tax revenues relative to the construction and maintenance they are required to help cover, I asked how should we pay for the roads? One…
The problem The West Central Tribune reports: Chippewa County will be joining the growing ranks of counties imposing a wheelage tax on vehicles to help fund road and bridge needs.…
After a series of hearings this morning at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, the three brothers appeared in sequence before Magistrate Judge Tony Leung. All three are pleading not…
Government fraud and corruption have persisted long enough.
The ranks of those charged in the sprawling free-food scandal grew by two this week and now stands at 72. Five were indicted this week in the $120,000 juror bribery…
In the Federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul this afternoon, the woman alleged to have delivered the $120,000 in cash to the house of Juror #52 in the recently concluded…
This morning, at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger announced that five individuals have been indicted for attempting to bribe the juror in the recently concluded…
A massive Minnesota free-food nonprofit listed a curious job description recently. In late May, Brooklyn Park-based Second Harvest Heartland posted an opening for a “voter engagement coordinator,” a temporary position…
By popular demand, we’ve added a new feature to our coverage, tracking the status of each of the 70 defendants charged so far in the free-food scandal. So far, 23…
In what will be an ongoing effort to track the ever-growing list of frauds perpetrated against state and local governments in Minnesota, I’ve started a spreadsheet tracker, A few notes…
The state’s Legislative Audit office released the report this morning on the state Department of Education’s (MDE) mishandling of the Feeding Our Future scandal. A 120-page PDF of the report…