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A Minnesota Department of Education official testified Tuesday that the agency verified addresses of food sites before approving them to receive federal funding, but left further vetting to a nonprofit that allegedly led the theft of $250 million.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Through a lengthy exchange, Honer told Udoibok that MDE processes new food site applications by checking to ensure that the address is a location where a food site can operate, and then adding them to an internal system.

“So, you just approve them?” Udoibok said.

“I would disagree,” Honer said.

oof. That's essentially no verification

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah it obvious that the way the system was set up was there was very little upfront verifications with it being off loaded to the non-profit and then pushed to the USDA for after the fact prosecution. So a strange system for sure with lots of trust on the non-profits.

But I can see the need for speed during a global pandemic but can see it was taken advantage of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I normally don't follow court cases that closely but this is kind of crazy. Worth a read even if you haven't been following this closely.