DCR Crime: 47 individuals who are Somalian immigrants have been charged with stealing 250,000 dollars in COVID-19 federal funds for child welfare program.☕☕☕

Ayyyeee… What’s Goodie Everyone. So I got some tea and it involves a group of Somalian immigrants who allegedly stole $250 million dollars from Federal COVID-19 funds for child welfare programs.

According to federal prosecutors in Minneapolis Minnesota, the 47 individuals charged across six indictments and three criminal informations committed conspiracy, wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering when they defrauded millions from the Federal Child Nutrition Program during the coronavirus pandemic.

In 2019, a program called Feeding Our Future received and disbursed about $3.4 million in federal funds to feed underprivileged children in the Minneapolis area. By 2021, the nonprofit had received almost $200 million in federal funds. The 47 individuals allegedly used COVID-19 changes to the Federal Child Nutrition Program to oversee the massive fraud scheme via the Minneapolis based Feeding Our Future and the for-profit restaurants as well as the food distribution services sponsored by the nonprofit.

The scheme included Feeding Our Future allegedly claiming to open more than 250 Federal Child Nutrition Program sites across the state of Minnesota. Most of the 47 individuals claimed to operate these sites by filing fraudulent documents purporting to be feeding children, prosecutors allege.

Feeding Our Future executives, according to prosecutors, knew all along that the fraud was taking place but continued to submit fraudulent documents to secure Federal Child Nutrition Program funds for the sites claiming to be feeding children. In the process, Feeding Our Future was paid more than $18 million in administrative fees and employees of the nonprofit allegedly accepted bribes and kickbacks. When Minnesota regulators sought to provide oversight to the operation, a Feeding Our Future executive claimed the state was discriminating against the nonprofit.

Most of the individuals charged in the fraud scheme, prosecutors say, used the stolen funds to buy luxury vehicles, residential and commercial real estate, real estate in Kenya and Turkey, and to fund their international travel. The charges are fraud, money laundering, conspiracy to commit fraud and Money Laundering.

Editors Note: More updates will be posted on this story. Stay tuned.

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