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Nutrition program’s lawsuit triggers MN Education Dept to ease oversight, opening door to more fraud

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1 month ago

As the Trump administration steps up enforcement actions against Somali nationals in Minnesota, the state is facing renewed scrutiny for its oversight of a shuttered nonprofit accused of stealing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. Many of those charged in the alleged scheme are of Somali descent.The defunct nonprofit, called Feeding our Future, was run largely by Somalians, and it sued the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) in 2020, alleging discrimination. Critics have suggested that litigation could have made the MDE nervous and caused state officials to let up on its supervision...