The Anton Group, a St. Paul–based accounting firm, provided services to one in five Minnesota charter schools in 2022, but dissolved in wake of the alleged fraud. Neal Thao, the CEO of Noble Academy, said charter schools should “look at their accounts very carefully.”
A landlord with a history of code violations, civil penalties, and tenant complaints going back more than a decade pleaded guilty this month to renting rooms without a license at his house in Minneapolis.
Two days after 5 INVESTIGATES began asking questions about the property, the city filed a criminal complaint charging Shahidullah with renting without a license — a misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.