The headline says it all: “Records show meals program was ripe for fraud in Minnesota.” In the first article published by any local media outlet on the Feeding Our Future…
Reporter Pafoua Yang at Alpha News has put together two video reports on the Feeding Our Future scandal. The first report features an overview of the scandal with an interview…
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a request in early March asking that a Dakota County court oversee the dissolution of the free-food nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Last Monday, the…
The alleged Feeding Our Future scandal is having an impact on the work at the State Legislature as they look to wind up their session next month. In the Democratic-controlled…
One of the legacies of the pandemic in America is that the government has taken over the basic responsibility, at least on paper, of feeding the nation’s children. You may…
Depending on your point of view, it was the phoenix rising from the ashes, or the zombie rising from the dead. In either case, a nonprofit called Feeding Our Future…
Nearly all the attention in the alleged free-food scandal has gone to the now-dissolved nonprofit Feeding Our Future. But the scandal involves a second, equally large outfit called Partners in…
The Minnesota State Senate held two much-needed oversight hearings this week of the state Department of Education’s handling of the Feeding Our Future free-food scandal. Unfortunately, we learned that the…
A St. Cloud man was recently sentenced to prison and ordered to pay back more than $4 million for defrauding the federal government. Hared Nur Jabril was the owner and…
The state Department of Education (MDE) testified in front of the state Senate earlier this week, and blamed their failure to halt the free-food money flows on “local judges.” Not…
They say that the children are our future. Based on the names of the nonprofits involved, that cliche was never more true than when applied to Minnesota’s free-food scandal. Of…
The small suburb of Hopkins, MN, is wedged in between the larger western Minneapolis suburbs of Edina, Minnetonka, and St. Louis Park. The city has a population of about 20,000,…
However unlikely, the west metro suburb of Edina features prominently in the free-food scandal. Not one person has been arrested or charged in the case. The alleged scandal involves two…
The south metro suburban city of Burnsville boasts a population of 64,000 and the ski area Buck Hill. It also contains enough free-food distribution capacity (at least on paper) to…
This suburban city south of the Minnesota River has a population of about 32,000 and is thick with free-food fraud connections. Allegedly. It’s a fast-growing suburb and a haven for…
This stop on the free-food fraud tour brings us to the south-central Minnesota city of Mankato. This town of 44,000 is home to Minnesota State University (which advanced to this…
A number of addresses have featured prominently in the alleged free-food fraud story, but none more prominently than 3055 Old Highway 8, St. Anthony, Minnesota. The office building at that…
Our free-food fraud tour brings us to Minnesota’s third largest city. Home of the famed Mayo Clinic, a large IBM facility, and a campus of the University of Minnesota, the…
Our free-food fraud tour of the state brings us to the central Minnesota city of St. Cloud. This city of 69,000 sits about an hour and a half (by car)…
Minnesota State Senator Omar Fateh returned contributions from 11 persons linked to the alleged Feeding Our Future scandal. Who were the 11? Early in the alleged Feeding Our Future scandal,…
Minnesota regulators have shut down three free-food distribution networks, so far. The smallest of the three took in $26 million in its only year of operation. The Star Tribune reported…
Digging deeper into the alleged free-food scandal uncovers fascinating stories in outstate Minnesota communities. It’s amazing how quickly the unlikely coincidences pile up. Yesterday, we looked at Willmar, Minnesota. Today,…
A number of cities in Greater Minnesota have been linked to the alleged free food scandal. None have received more attention than the west-central Minnesota city of Willmar. Back on…
One of the more amazing elements of the free food alleged scandal is how little outcry there has been in the community. If the now-suspended nonprofits were serving meals to…