One chart lays bare the sprawling fraud network Minnesota officials missed

State data reveals how the fraud ballooned in plain sight

Amanda Macias / Fox News 

What had been a modest stream of taxpayer dollars to Feeding Our Future suddenly became a flood, surging 2,800% in a year, an abrupt spike now at the center of mounting scrutiny and oversight concerns.

The explosive growth occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the organization exploited a federally funded children’s nutrition program run by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), siphoning off money intended to feed low-income kids. It now stands as the nation's largest COVID-19 fraud case.

Data from the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor sheds light on how the scheme went unchecked for so long, finding that the MDE oversight was "inadequate" and that its failures "created opportunities for fraud."

State records chart the rise in payments and reveal how the fraud ballooned in plain sight.

According to data from the state audit, payments to Feeding Our Future began in 2019 at $1.4 million.That figure rose to $4.8 million the...Read more, see video and chart here.

House Republicans Just Dropped a Bombshell About DC Crime Rates

Jeff Charles / Townhall Tipsheet

 

The House Oversight Committee released a report on Sunday alleging that the leadership of Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department fudged the district’s crime numbers to make it appear as if the department was performing better than it actually was.

The findings of the report are based on multiple transcribed interviews with commanders of D.C.’s patrol districts, including one who was placed on leave.

The report suggests MPD leaders under Chief Pamela Smith’s leadership pressured commanders to keep the “public” crime numbers low, even if that meant altering how certain offenses were labeled. D.C. has been a high-crime area for decades, and Smith wanted to make it appear that crime was declining at a faster pace.

Commanders told investigators that they were “not only pressured, but also instructed, to lower crime classifications to lesser intermediate offenses in such a way that those offenses would not be included in the DCR reported to the public.” Read more, see X and video here. 

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