FBI interviews and trial records raise questions about the government’s decision to not pursue criminal charges against the St. Paul nonprofit, despite evidence of similar wrongdoing to what brought down Feeding Our Future.
Internal records show lawmakers pressed state education officials to restore payments and approve meal sites even as front-line regulators raised concerns about the nonprofit.
Her highly anticipated court reckoning comes more than four years after federal raids kick-started the country’s largest pandemic-era fraud investigation.
Nearly half its lawyers have left since President Trump’s return, leading to dismissed criminal cases, stalled fraud prosecutions and a rare contempt citation against a Justice Department attorney.