Ten more people have been charged over their alleged roles in a scheme to exploit a federally-funded child nutrition program in Minnesota during the COVID-19 pandemic, federal prosecutors announced on March 13.
The 10 defendants are charged across four separate indictments on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, and bribery, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota.
The latest charges against the 10 individuals mean that a total of 60 people have now been charged in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme.
Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit organization, was a sponsor participating in the Federal Child Nutrition Program, a federally-funded program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and designed to provide free meals to children in need during the pandemic….