U.S. Attorney's Office charges 47 in 'largest pandemic fraud in the United States'

U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said 47 people have been charged in connection with "the largest pandemic fraud in the United States." Watch an introductory segment of the presser. WCCO will have more coverage.

[JamesAllmond]

Wonder how many government officials are involved?

[danielread]

What a surprise that Minnesota residents would do such a thing.

[garyduckworth]

If you don’t go after their accountants, this effort is too shallow.

[barbaraperalta]

Every person that committed fraud claiming to be feeding children should be imprisoned.

[rickcortez]

Thank you all for your service to the country America needs you.

[aaaggg]

When people do it its crime when politicians do it...its passed as bills

[rossvoss]

Happy to see investigators catching extraordinary levels of fraud. I hope the perpetrators gat long prison sentences

[Betts]

The American people thank all of you! The fact that these 47 people will soon get their paybacks warms my heart. The pandemic wrecked havoc on our families and brought considerable hardship to all. Thank You 🙏

[brunomckay]

Were those names all Somalian or Middle Eastern, looked like it to me? Ripping off their own Communities.

[ericford]

Damn didn’t they do that in Mississippi too they should investigate all states with similar programs

[sswulffable]

Make the Scum Bags PAY, with full payment of fraudulent stolen money in retribution, Fines, Prison

[robinburdick]

How many corporations did he indict? Hedge Fund Companies that took pandemic funds or the Major Banks that took pandemic money...

[sandramkettner]

OMG the cretins are coming out of the woodwork! I hope they are taking a good long look at our legislators who also took Coved funds of one sort or another. There are a good number of them.

[franksliwa]

Would you expect anything less in a democrat state where corruption is rampant!!

[JR-kxlv]

This is the Same place that this happened was attempted to be made a mosque and it was deemed racist by the public s few years ago.. it’s the St. Anthony Business Center. The building off of old highway 8 used to Medtronic in 70s. It’s a business center. If it’s a religious center it can’t be taxed nor looked into by the government. Not saying there wasn’t racism involved but this same case kept going on after feed our future (the name is quite ironic) countersued after initial suspicion reported by one of the departments of Minnesota. It was reported due to the enormous number of kids they claimed they were feeding. Quite interesting the path of this case.

[mercysakes]

Get er’ done. We will see, is there no shame in people anymore???!!

[katherinemahon]

Glad you caught them. In Illinois 2 billion was stolen from the state in fraudulent Unemployment claims.

[i.m.]

All those names are Indian, Pakistani? Muslim? What’s going on?

[janiegolden]

Must have been a sting investigation as perhaps a whistleblower came forth. The premise of the fraud was horrible and I hope those cheated get some money back. Those criminals will enjoy being fed in prison for multiple years. Welcome to a new hell!

[lindahenry]

They said they were creating a special department for this alone, a while back.