From Fox News: Minneapolis has been at the center of national headlines in recent weeks over a massive fraud scandal that experts say will cost taxpayers over a billion dollars. Fox News Digital spoke to a former prosecutor who worked on one of the central cases in the controversy.
Former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab, who served nearly four years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis and briefly worked on the Feeding Our Future case, says the public still doesn’t grasp the scale, speed and simplicity of the fraud that unfolded, or how deeply government failures contributed to it.
“I think you generally have a sense that your government is gonna be fighting for you and spending your money just generally OK, and that was absolutely not the case,” Teirab told Fox News Digital.
“The amount of fraud was rampant, it was staggering, and happened really, really quickly. Just over the course of a couple years, the amount of fraud that happened in Minnesota is maybe in excess or probably in excess of a billion dollars, and one of the main prosecutors in a lot of the fraud, the former acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, said the number was likely over $2 billion. So that is what we’re dealing with. It’s a travesty that our hard-earned taxpayer dollars are being wasted away.”
Teirab said the total amount stolen in the fraud schemes could easily be over $2 billion.
“So the bottom line of this scandal was this: that there were supposed to be these different organizations, like Feeding Our Future, they were supposed to be a sponsor of different food sites that would give out food to kids who purportedly need it. And so this Feeding Our Future was supposed to be the watchdog of these food sites. But they were not doing that at all. They were basically getting kickbacks from these sites that were supposed to be giving up food. That was totally false. And they were ginning up the numbers and saying that they fed 3,000 kids a day when they actually maybe fed zero or maybe three kids,” he said.
WATCH BELOW:
Last week, it was reported that multiple whistleblowers are estimating the grand total could be well over $8 BILLION.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! It was just revealed that the Somali Minnesota fraud might end up toward $8 BILLION DOLLARS, not just $1 billion
Gov. Tim Walz, what have you done?!🤯🤯
“Several whistleblowers say they believe the total fraud could total up to more than $8 BILLION!”… pic.twitter.com/NWDg1px9z5
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 5, 2025
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