Republican House panel subpoenas Gov. Walz in investigation of Minnesota nonprofit that ran a Covid aid scheme
The group Feeding Our Future faces federal criminal charges that it created fake children's names to seek reimbursements for meals that were never served.
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Major failures by Minnesota’s Education Department helped lead to largest Covid fraud scheme in the nation, audit says
Seventy people have been charged in the alleged $250 million Covid relief scheme. Five of them were convicted last week in the first of several related federal fraud trials.
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Excellent oversight by the Governor.....
WASHINGTON — The House Education and Workforce Committee issued subpoenas Wednesday to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Minnesota Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Agriculture for how they responded to what federal prosecutors have called the largest pandemic fraud schemes in the country.
The subpoenas, obtained first by NBC News, demand that Walz, Minnesota Commissioner of Education Willie Jett, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Agriculture Inspector General Phyllis Fong turn over documents concerning oversight of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, which is alleged to have misused millions of dollars intended to feed children during the pandemic.
Foxx, along with the Republican leaders of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the Agriculture Committee, first requested documents from the U.S. Agriculture Department in September 2022 after federal charges were unsealed in the case concerning Feeding Our Future. At that point, Republicans were in the minority in the House so they did not control committees.
Once in the majority in 2023, Foxx and her fellow committee chairs followed up with USDA. The group of Republicans also requested documents from Jett in June.
