{"id":135681,"date":"2026-05-21T14:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/feds-charge-15-people-in-minnesota-with-defrauding-government-social-service-programs\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:58:55","slug":"feds-charge-15-people-in-minnesota-with-defrauding-government-social-service-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/feds-charge-15-people-in-minnesota-with-defrauding-government-social-service-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds charge 15 people in Minnesota with defrauding government social service programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpflgt7p000x27nqa8u7187u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Federal charges were filed Wednesday against 15 people accused of defrauding social service programs in Minnesota, Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald announced Thursday.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpfqajxk0000356ry4z34sju@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The cases involve theft of more than $90 million in taxpayer money, McDonald said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpfqb2se0002356rz9pr4656@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThis is not the end of our work in Minnesota. This is not the end of the beginning of our work in Minnesota. This is the beginning of our work in Minnesota,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpfqg0sl00003b6r03epy314@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The announcement came moments after Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock was sentenced to nearly 42 years in prison on f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/12\/29\/us\/minnesota-day-care-fraud-what-we-know\">ederal charges, including bribery<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpfqkpao000b3b6rrkbpy1zc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Bock was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/07\/us\/food-fraud-scheme-convicted\">one of the first people<\/a> to stand trial in what federal prosecutors have called one of the nation\u2019s largest Covid-19-related frauds, exploiting rules that were kept lax so that the economy wouldn\u2019t crash during the pandemic. More than $250 million in federal funds was taken in the Minnesota scheme overall, with only about $50 million of it recovered, authorities said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpflsici000a3b6r5bwvvgcz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The other allegations outlined in court documents show one person is accused of defrauding the Federal Child Nutrition Program and a state program providing grants to child care providers, in part by falsifying the numbers of meals served to children. Another, accused of defrauding a state program that helps child care centers pay staff, is alleged to have inflated the number of staffers and their hours worked.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpflsici000b3b6r2yrxsiia@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Some of the other cases involve allegations of Medicaid fraud. Two of those charged, responsible for providing housing services to people in need, are accused of defrauding Medicaid by inflating the hours of service they provided, according to court documents. And the owners of group homes for people with disabilities in rural Minnesota allegedly took more than $1 million in fraudulent Medicaid billings for personal use, an indictment says, including seven high-end cars.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpfqez9y0004356rfsinwydb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The people charged are \u201cfraudsters who treated Minnesota-run programs as their personal piggybank,\u201d McDonald said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpfqfvl00006356rpy28gw98@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Some charges also involved allegations that children were falsely being diagnosed with autism in order to receive government money, what McDonald called the \u201clargest autism fraud scheme ever charged by the Department of Justice.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpflsici000c3b6rugxeb5ju@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The charges come three weeks after a federal official said 22 search warrants were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/28\/us\/minnesota-fraud-investigation\">executed<\/a> in Minnesota as part of a long-running fraud investigation in the state.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpflsici000d3b6r8zuvv61g@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and <strong><\/strong>Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz also spoke at the news conference in Minneapolis late Thursday morning.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpfnfzy900003b6rddzdicjy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/21\/politics\/blanche-senate-republicans-anti-weaponization-fund\">was initially scheduled to go to Minnesota<\/a> where he was expected to speak at this news conference. Instead, he met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill in an attempt to save the Justice Department\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/18\/politics\/what-to-know-trump-weaponization-fund-for-allies\">\u201canti-weaponization\u201d fund<\/a> as the party weighs its fate.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpfqyq6p000k3b6rat93pbqm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <em>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpfr38fm00043b6rpt2cpokv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <em>CNN\u2019s Whitney Wild and Chris Boyette contributed to this report.<\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/21\/us\/minnesota-social-service-programs-fraud-charges\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\nSee more: https:\/\/theglobaltrack.com\/<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/corinthiames.com.br\/<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal charges were filed Wednesday against 15 people accused of defrauding social service programs in Minnesota, Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald announced Thursday. 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