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Investigations into Feeding Our Future and related Medicaid-funded programs in Minnesota, resulting in dozens of indictments and convictions, with disputed claims of terrorism links and community culpability.
No criminal charges had been filed against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as of December 2025; federal prosecutors had charged dozens of other individuals in sprawling fraud probes tied to state programs...
Several high-profile convictions in the Minnesota fraud prosecutions have resulted in multi-year federal prison terms: notably a 28-year sentence for a leader in the Feeding Our Future scheme, a 10-ye...
Federal prosecutors and courts in the sprawling Minnesota fraud cases have calculated restitution largely by tying dollar orders to quantified government losses from false claims and laundered proceed...
Federal and state prosecutors say a wide network of businesses and nonprofits funneled millions — later characterized in reporting as hundreds of millions and possibly far more — out of Minnesota safe...
Public records and federal press releases show substantial but not fully consistent counts for the major Minnesota fraud probes: Feeding Our Future has been the subject of large multi-defendant indict...
Federal and state fraud prosecutions in Minnesota over the past several years have overwhelmingly involved defendants of Somali descent, with reporting and court filings repeatedly noting that most of...
The sprawling Minnesota fraud prosecutions have produced dozens of convictions but relatively few finalized lengthy prison sentences so far; court records and reporting show some serious penalties alr...
A range of Republican politicians and conservative outlets have publicly accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of corruption or culpable negligence for fraud that occurred in state-administered social servi...
Reporting does not converge on a single, definitive tally, but major outlets and official statements place the number of convictions for Minnesota-related fraud prosecutions that began in 2022 in the ...
Multiple congressional committees issued subpoenas and requests seeking a defined set of Walz‑period documents — including Minnesota Department of Education records, communications between the governo...
The investigations in Minnesota began with federal charges tied to Feeding Our Future and expanded into multiple Medicaid- and state-funded programs, producing dozens of indictments and convictions bu...