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A Shakopee school district official testified Monday that it would have been impossible to deliver food in the quantities allegedly claimed by the defendants in the Feeding Our Future trial.

Two defendants were found guilty of conspiracy in a groundbreaking trial that could change how Antifa is understood and targeted by prosecutors.

In a Minneapolis courtroom Monday, federal prosecutors laid out their case that six men and one woman launched the nation’s biggest pandemic relief fraud from a tiny East African restaurant in Shakopee. There, they collected millions in cash purloined from a federal program meant to feed hungry children. The post Prosecutor shows texts bragging about stacks of cash as Feeding Our Future trial begins appeared first on Minnesota Reformer.

BY: DEENA WINTER MINNEAPOLIS (Minnesota Reformer) - In a Minneapolis courtroom Monday, federal prosecutors lai...

Attorneys for defendants in the first Feeding Our Future trial argued Monday that they served "real food" to children in need across Minnesota, refuting prosecutors' claims of a widespread fraud scheme. Instead, defense attorneys who made their first opening statements Monday argued that defendants navigated a complex federal meal program that was upended in the COVID-19 pandemic. The ...

Opening statements began Monday in the first trial in the Feeding Our Future fraud case. Seven people are facing charges connected to the investigation into the theft of millions of dollars in federal funds, in what the FBI is calling the largest COVID-19 pandemic relief fraud scheme to be uncovered. 

Prosecutors say seven defendants schemed to steal $47 million from taxpayer-funded child nutrition programs by falsifying attendance rosters and food invoices. Defense attorneys said their clients were following the rules and feeding children.

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The two issues go hand in hand in benefiting businesses in Fairbanks and across the state, President and CEO Jeremy Johnson said.

Kelly Ward of local accounting firm Robinson & Ward has been selected as president of the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.