We are seeing a remarkable cascade of fraud scandals in Minnesota. Program after program has been hit with taxpayer losses from organized scams in recent years.

In the Feeding Our Future scam, 78 individuals have been indicted and 57 convicted of various fraud-related crimes against US Department of Agriculture food programs. Taxpayer losses from these thefts in Minnesota total $250 million or more.

Meanwhile, in the sprawling Medicaid program, prosecutors allege that “half or more of the roughly $18 billion in Medicaid funds, which supported 14 Minnesota-run programs since 2018 may have been stolen due to fraud.”

And in the Minnesota childcare industry, new fraud allegations come after more than a decade of reports on financial malfeasance in the state’s subsidized childcare facilities.

Let’s look at these fraud scandals in more detail.

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