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Minnesota’s anti-fraud spending has quietly ballooned, leaving taxpayers to pay for failure twice

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In the wake of a years-long $250 million welfare fraud scheme, Minnesota taxpayers will now finance a pricey state-level cleanup effort, effectively paying for the failure twice after state officials missed repeated warning signs.The Feeding Our Future scheme exploited a federally funded children’s nutrition program administered by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) during the COVID-19 pandemic, siphoning money meant to provide meals to low-income kids. It now stands as the nation's largest COVID-19 fraud case.WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT MINNESOTA’S ‘FEEDING OUR FUTURE’ FRAUDAn audit from the...

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