Allegedly, a Feeding Our Future defendant double-dipped with a Medicaid fraud. Somehow, I missed this MPR News article when it came out last month. I’ve frequently speculated on the possible…
I’m often asked the question, “How much more is there to the free-food scandal in Minnesota”? I’m tempted to quote Churchill’s line, we’re at “the end of the beginning.” In…
There have been 49 people (and counting) charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud. Of those, twelve were associated with Safari Restaurant of Minneapolis, including all three co-owners. Combing through…
The Star Tribune reports on a free-food nonprofit run by a relative of a state representative. The headline reads, State representative’s brother runs nonprofit that participated in federal meals program…
Fox 9 reports that three figures charged in the Feeding Our Future case are scheduled to appear in Federal court tomorrow (Thursday) and are expected to plead guilty. It is…
Deena Winter of the Minnesota Reformer has a scoop: the wife of Minneapolis city council member Jamal Osman operated a free food site last year. Ilo Amba incorporated the nonprofit…
The Minnesota Reformer reports on the ties between a former Bernie Sanders campaign staffer in Iowa and the Feeding Our Future network. The Reformer reports that Abshir Omar worked for…
The subject of the Department of Justice’s fourth indictment in the Feeding Our Future scandal is an entity called Haji’s Kitchen, run by a man with the last name of…
A newly uncovered court transcript indicated that unnamed state representative went to bat for Feeding Our Future and one of its nonprofit food providers. The transcript, from a hearing that…
The public has been begging for a complete list of political donations from figures indicted in the Feeding Our Future scandal. See below: A few caveats are in order. The…
In two of the biggest moments of his governorship, Gov. Tim Walz allowed political calculations to cloud his thinking, resulting in terrible outcomes for the Minnesota families who rely on…
Other nonprofit, free-food networks are implicated in the set of indictments announced by the U.S. Attorney Andy Luger last week. In his press conference on Tuesday, Luger described the dollar…
A hitherto obscure Ramsey County judge, John Guthmann, has received much of the blame for the Feeding Our Future debacle. He has now been vindicated. The fault lies in this…
The U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, Andy Luger, announced the indictments today (Sept. 20) of 47 individuals in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Scroll to the bottom for the latest developments.…
The Feeding Our Future scandal largely disappeared from the radar of local media this summer. However, court cases involving the state’s three-largest free-food charities reveal that the battle continues to…
Partners in Nutrition wants back into Federal programs that provided $100 million per year in revenue to the company. The St. Paul-based nonprofit corporation Partners in Nutrition has sued the…
Despite the Feeding Our Future scandal, Minnesota’s free-food programs continue to operate. Immediately after the FBI raids in January, there were widespread concerns that children would not be fed with…
According to CNBC, The Department of Education announced Tuesday that it will cancel nearly $4 billion worth of federal student loans for 208,000 borrowers defrauded by a popular for-profit institution. All remaining…
News headlines have painted a sobering picture of the teaching profession, claiming teachers are quitting and retiring at a record rate, creating a teacher shortage crisis like never before. But…
The rise of Mississippi as a national exemplar in math and reading growth has given policymakers in other states a model to learn from. The state made headlines for being…
We visit two sites closely associated with the third free-food network shut down by the state Department of Education (MDE). At the time it was shut down by MDE, Gar…
We wind up our free-food tour of the Twin Cities with stops at two “Youth”-related commercial buildings. We’ve previously covered the rise and fall of the short-lived nonprofit Youth Inventors…
We visit Brooklyn Center, the home of the one success story behind Feeding Our Future. During the years-long battle between the free-food nonprofit Feeding Our Future and the state Department…
Your correspondent visits Subject Premises No. 6 in the Feeding Our Future case. In the middle of a narrow residential street in south Minneapolis sits an unmarked one-story office building…