Preventing the next Feeding Our Future
Did most free-food money go to fraud in Minnesota? It sure looks like it. In Gov. Walz’ budget proposal filed this week, the Walz administration has added some details to…
Did most free-food money go to fraud in Minnesota? It sure looks like it. In Gov. Walz’ budget proposal filed this week, the Walz administration has added some details to…
For Liban Alishire, the JigJiga is truly up. Last night, the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota sent out a press release announcing the latest guilty plea in the Feeding Our Future…
Two defendants in the Feeding Our Future case were also arrested for passport fraud as they tried to flee the country. Both of them have been released from jail. Abdiaziz…
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has sued an Edina-based nonprofit associated with Feeding Our Future. He filed the lawsuit yesterday in Hennepin County. The nonprofit was located at a co-working…
Right before the New Year, a U.S. District Court judge approved the sale of three properties forfeited in the Feeding Our Future case. The properties were Nos. 10, 11, and…
Mostly, the idea is to hire more bureaucrats. Hoping to avoid a repeat of the Feeding Our Future scandal, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has proposed a package of measures. Of…
On Boxing Day, the Minneapolis Star Tribune published an article documenting concerns in the state’s nonprofit sector of a backlash arising from the Feeding Our Future scandal. The paper quotes…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that 14 figures indicted in the Feeding Our Future case have operated 11 daycare centers who have collectively received $22 million from the state in…
Suspended large free-food charity moves ahead on the litigation front. The St. Paul-based Partners in Nutrition, d/b/a Partners in Quality Care, was suspended by the state Department of Education (MDE)…
A public records data request shines some light on the origins of the free-food nonprofit Feeding Our Future. The Minnesota-based group Public Record Media (PRM) recently received a batch of…
Free-food nonprofit is seeking reinstatement to program. Most of the attention in Minnesota’s free-food scandal has fallen on the now-defunct nonprofit Feeding Our Future. The second-largest nonprofit in the free-food…
The third large free-food nonprofit suspended by the state Department of Education (MDE) appeared in the state Court of Appeals yesterday. Youth Leadership Academy, d/b/a Gar Gaar Family Services, is…
KARE-11’s Lou Raguse drew my attention to this free-food fraud story out of St. Louis. The alleged fraud involved ($21 million) seems like small potatoes compared to the numbers up…
In honor (if that’s the correct word) of its triumph in this year’s Golden Turkey competition for worst government spending, we’re releasing this video on the Feeding Our Future scandal.…
In the aftermath of the Feeding Our Future scandal, this series has been documenting the fallout among unrelated food charities. Not only was Feeding Our Future shuttered by state authorities, so were…
In the wake of the Feeding Our Future scandal, this series has been documenting the fallout among unrelated food charities. Not only was Feeding Our Future shuttered by state authorities,…