A lawsuit filed this week in Hennepin County District Court alleges some recipients of federal grant money were involved in lobbying or had close ties to city hall. However, the city says there’s nothing illegal about granting money to community organizations which have worked with the city before.
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A new lawsuit alleges the city of Minneapolis' violence prevention office used an illegal procurement process to "arbitrarily" select recipients for millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grant money. The Neighborhood Safety Office, formerly called Office of Violence Prevention, also used federal COVID-19 relief money to improperly pay lobbying and political causes, according to the lawsuit, .