By Blake Wolf, OAN Staff
Thursday, September 5, 2024 4:21 PM
The Committee on Education and Labor has issued a subpoena, demanding that Minnesota Governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz answer questions about the “Feeding Our Future” fraud scandal, which it has called “the nation's largest COVID-19 fraud scheme.”
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Feeding Our Future, now defunct, was a nonprofit “child nutrition program” tasked with feeding low-income children during the pandemic. The organization was subsequently accused of misappropriating $250 million in federal funds during COVID-19, resulting in 70 indictments, 18 pleading guilty, and five being convicted.
After the scandal broke in 2022, Sen. Walz (D-Minn.) dismissed allegations that the administration was slowing down its investigation into Feeding Our Future.
“We caught this scam. We caught it very early on. We warned the right people,” Waltz said in September 2022. “We've been taken to court. We've been sued. We've been threatened with jail time. We've persevered.”
The Minnesota Legislative Auditor found that the state's Department of Education “failed to act on warning signs” and “did not effectively exercise its authority to hold Feeding Our Future accountable for program requirements.”
In response, Governor Walz retroactively created an inspector general within the state Department of Education.
“This will continue unless we hold Governor Walz's appointed commissioners and other officials accountable and stop the waste and fraud,” said Republican Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson.
Additionally, in 2022, Walz claimed that District Judge John Guthman in Ramsey County ordered the Minnesota Department of Education to continue making payments to a “corrupt” nonprofit, but the judge later denied the allegations and argued that the Department of Education voluntarily continued making the payments despite apparent “serious deficiencies.”
“rear [Minnesota’s Department of Education]”The Department of Agriculture, under Governor Walz's leadership, has not responded to the Committee's previous attempts to gather the information needed to shed light on how the Governor and the Department allowed this misconduct to occur, so today the Committee is moving forward with the process of issuing subpoenas to compel responses,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-Fla., chair of the House committee leading the effort.
Walz was given a term until September 18th.Number Provide the Committee with appropriate documentation and information as requested.
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