The MN Reformer uncovers a new scandal involving tutoring centers. What are the connections to the Feeding Our Future scandal? The headline in the MN Reformer this morning: Low-income mothers…
No. 20, Haji Salad, has ties to a controversial Lakeville housing development. It was a busy week for the Feeding Our Future case at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis.…
If all goes according to plan, guilty plea numbers 19 and 20 will be filed in the Feeding Our Future case next week. We’ve learned during the course of the…
I revisit a site in Hopkins once bustling with free-food, and now given over to the ever-forthcoming Southwest light rail extension. The Southwest light rail transit project (officially known as…
Abdulkadir Awale, defendant No. 56, has become the 10th defendant to plead guilty in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Awale, of Bloomington, ran three restaurants involved in the scandal: Karmel…
Andy Luger, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, announced 10 more defendants were indicted this morning in the Feeding Our Future scandal. The total charged in the case…
What did they know and when did they know it? Since the U.S. Attorney announced the first set of indictments in the scandal last week (now grown to 49 individuals…
Your correspondent goes looking for free food and finds light rail instead. A couple of months ago, we wrote about the connections between the free-food scandal and the small western…
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,…