The program designed to feed children during the height of COVID-19 might have resulted in the largest fraud case to come out of the pandemic.
Two defendants tried in the case were found not guilty. An additional 63 individuals charged for their part in the scheme are still awaiting trial. The FBI has claimed it is the largest COVID-19 pandemic fraud case in the country with $250 million allegedly stolen.
“The verdict confirms what we’ve known all along, which is that defendants falsified documents, they lied and they fraudulently claimed to be feeding millions of meals to children in Minnesota during COVID,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompsonin a news conference after the verdicts were read in Minneapolis. “The defendants took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to defraud the state of Minnesota and to steal tens of millions of dollars.
The jury was sequestered for four nights after one of the jurors said a woman dropped $120,000 in cash in front of her home. The juror, 23, said the woman offered her more money if she were to find the defendants not guilty. The juror was dismissed from the case and so was another juror who found out about the incident from a family member.
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