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Foxx Leads Letter to Vilsack on Major Fraud Affecting Hungry Children

Press Release

Date: July 20, 2023
Location: Washington, D.C.
Issues: Minors and Children Food Processing and Sales

"According to allegations from the Department of Justice, Feeding Our Future, a Minnesota-based non-profit organization participating in the Federal Child Nutrition Programs, defrauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service of over $250 million. Subsequent to our September 30, 2022, letter to you, the number of people that have been charged has increased from 47 to 60, and a total of 10 people have plead guilty.

It is unclear how the USDA and its partnering state agency, the Minnesota Department of Education, failed to discern this fraud -- described as the "largest pandemic fraud in the United States' -- earlier in the grant cycle. Millions of taxpayer funds were stolen at the expense of hungry children in the state."


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