Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have charged another 10 people in connection with an alleged $250 million scheme to defraud government child nutrition programs. Last fall, the U.S. Attorney’s office charged 50 people allegedly tied to the nonprofit Feeding Our Future with using phony documents and shell companies to steal funds meant for children in need. One of the new defendants operated a small storefront restaurant in Faribault in which the owner falsely claimed to have served 700,000 meals to children in an effort to claim federal funding authorites say was spent on personal items.
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