The money was supposed to feed children shut out of schools during the pandemic. Instead, federal prosecutors say hundreds of millions of dollars were funnelled through a Minnesota non-profit that turned emergency aid into luxury property, sports cars and offshore investments.
Nearly four years after FBI agents raided offices linked to Feeding Our Future, the scandal has hardened into something larger than a fraud prosecution. It exposed how pandemic-era desperation, political caution and weakened oversight created fertile ground for organised theft on a staggering scale.
