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Nonprofit Tied to Meal Fraud Claims Agrees to Pay Minnesota $18.5M
The nonprofit will return remaining assets and cooperate with investigators after state officials alleged it billed for millions of meals never served.
- On Thursday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced an $18.5 million settlement with Partners in Nutrition, a nonprofit accused of defrauding federal child nutrition programs; the organization will dissolve and pay its remaining assets.
- The lawsuit alleges Partners in Nutrition knowingly submitted false claims between October 2020 and February 2022, facilitating widespread fraud by inflating reimbursement requests for meals never actually served to children.
- Documents cited in the complaint show the nonprofit ignored "obvious signs of fraud," including one Minneapolis site receiving $895,241 for meals despite being "not yet operating," according to the Attorney General's Office.
- Although the settlement resolves civil claims, Ellison is recommending criminal charges against at least one unnamed insider, while continuing investigations into six other individuals affiliated with PIN.
- This agreement comes amid ongoing scrutiny of pandemic-era meal programs, as Ellison faces reelection pressure six weeks away following investigations into the Feeding Our Future scheme and related fraud cases.
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Nonprofit tied to meal fraud claims agrees to pay Minnesota $18.5M
A nonprofit tied to Minnesota’s pandemic-era meal fraud scandal has agreed to pay the state $18.5 million and dissolve itself as part of a civil settlement entered Thursday with Attorney General Keith Ellison.
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Lodinews.comFraud-plagued nonprofit reaches $18.5 million settlement with state of Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS — A nonprofit that steered nearly $100 million to fraudsters has agreed to hand over $18.5 million to the state of Minnesota to settle a lawsuit by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.
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