An investigator said identical names appeared over and over, in many cases as part of payment claims for meals served simultaneously at distribution sites miles apart. He said that the same 122 children were listed in reimbursement requests for meals served in April 2021.
Three children all named "John Doe" allegedly received free food. So did a child named "Friday Donations" month after month. And a child named "Getsaname Hester" was listed more than a dozen times in attendance rosters at food distribution sites run by defendants in the first Feeding Our Future trial. None of those names matched names of students enrolled at 20 public school districts across .
A Shakopee school district official testified Monday that it would have been impossible to deliver food in the quantities allegedly claimed by the defendants in the Feeding Our Future trial.
In a Minneapolis courtroom Monday, federal prosecutors laid out their case that six men and one woman launched the nation’s biggest pandemic relief fraud from a tiny East African restaurant in Shakopee. There, they collected millions in cash purloined from a federal program meant to feed hungry children. The post Prosecutor shows texts bragging about stacks of cash as Feeding Our Future trial begins appeared first on Minnesota Reformer.