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COVID-era child nutrition aid fraud

Fraud scheme involving Feeding Our Future and related entities that submitted false claims for federal child-nutrition reimbursements during the pandemic

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Jan 25, 2026
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FBI and ICE raid, tunnel, 96 arrests

in this month involved hundreds of arrests, heightened federal coordination, and at least one deadly confrontation that drew an criminal probe; reporting does not corroborate a separate, large-scale “...

Jan 26, 2026
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fraud in the state of minnesota

The last several years of reporting and official audits show wrestled with widespread fraud across multiple social‑services programs — from pandemic-era school meals to and behavioral‑health grants — ...

Jan 16, 2026
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Have any defendants in the Minnesota fraud investigations been convicted specifically of tax evasion or related IRS charges?

Reporting on the sprawling Minnesota fraud investigations documents dozens of federal convictions for wire fraud, bribery, money‑laundering and related offenses, but the available sources do not ident...

Jan 27, 2026

whats happening with the somali fraud

What’s happening is a multi‑layered federal and state probe into tied largely to ‑run programs and businesses in and other states, fueled recently by a viral influencer video that accelerated federal ...

Jan 26, 2026

How have prosecutors calculated the $1 billion estimate in Minnesota fraud cases and what items are included?

Federal prosecutors reached their roughly (and in some descriptions “billions”) estimate by aggregating preliminary assessments of alleged losses across 14 -run programs that received about $18 billio...

Jan 15, 2026

How many convictions have come from the Feeding Our Future prosecutions and what evidence was presented at trial?

The Feeding Our Future prosecutions have produced dozens of convictions so far, with news outlets reporting milestones of roughly 50 convicted by August 2025 and other tallies putting the total in the...