Posted on 03/13/2023 2:44:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ten more people have been charged in connection with a scheme to steal more than $250 million from a federal program designed to provide meals to low-income children in Minnesota, federal prosecutors said Monday.
Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said in September that the conspiracy was the largest pandemic-related fraud scheme to date.
At the center of the plot, the indictments allege, was a Minnesota nonprofit called Feeding Our Future.
Prosecutors said just a fraction of the money went toward feeding kids, with the rest laundered through shell companies and spent on property, luxury cars and travel.
Luger said in September that a small group of people came up with the plan to exploit the relaxed rules and steal tens of millions of dollars by falsely claiming they were providing food to children. Others soon joined, and the scheme grew, Luger said.
On Monday, Luger said the defendants allegedly operated fraudulent food sites all around the state, including Pelican Rapids, Faribault, Burnsville, Minnetonka, Bloomington, Minneapolis and St. Paul.
He highlighted an indictment against a woman who claimed to serve 2,560 meals a day to children in Pelican Rapids, a town with a total population of only 2,500 people. The woman obtained about $3.7 million from the fraudulent sites she operated, Luger said.
Luger added that federal prosecutors in September had seized about $50 million worth of property fraudulently obtained by the defendants. “That number is over $66.6 million now -- and climbing,” he said.
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Wait, how many of them prayed 5x a day? Better yet, to be named after their prophet (Mohammed) as a perfect pattern of human behavior.
Interesting list of names thar.
The Religion of Peace was really cashing in on the freebies
But hey...the New York Times and other places like Snopes, CNN, all call it "a false unverified misinformation campaign without any proof".
Really, they did. Who ya gonna Trust, the NYT or your own lying eyes?
Those look like fine Norwegian and Swedish names.
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