It’s been more than four months since the FBI raids on Feeding Our Future and related organizations. To date only a single person involved has been arrested, and that was…
One nonprofit went from earning $200,000 per year in revenue to pulling in more than $700,000 per month from distributing free food, serving up to 10,000 meals per day.
The suspended nonprofit Partners in Nutrition wins a round in its appeal against the state Dept. of Education. One of three free-food nonprofits suspended in the wake of the Feeding…
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…
Freshman state Senator Omar Fateh (DFL-Minneapolis) has been generating more than his share of headlines lately. Tracking his various scandals requires a scorecard, if not an entire program. The latest…
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…
How a couple of nonprofits allegedly swindled the federal government of $48 million meant to feed children.
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…
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…
Sen. Eric Pratt lost the Republican endorsement to a candidate backed by Action For Liberty over the weekend. First-time candidate Natalie Barnes won more than 60% of the vote on…
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)…