Minnesota Settles Over Fraudulent Claims for Child Nutrition Funds

What happened

In the civil lawsuit, Ellison alleged that from October 2020 to February 2022, PIN took advantage of its role as food program sponsor by knowingly and repeatedly submitting false claims to MDE for meals that were not served and facilitating widespread fraud in the food distribution sites it claimed to be monitoring. Notify me of comments via e-mail More News Ken Griffin Runs Into Miami Resistance Over Personal Helipad Florida’s Private Railroad, Brightline, Files for Bankruptcy State Farm to Increase Claims Workforce by 3,000 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States Take Cover as Nor’easter Hits More News Features . Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that he has filed a civil lawsuit and an $18.5 million settlement of the civil lawsuit with Partners in Nutrition, d/b/a Partners in Quality Care (“PIN”), that resolves claims that the non-profit knowingly defrauded …

Key details

• Notify me of comments via e-mail More News Ken Griffin Runs Into Miami Resistance Over Personal Helipad Florida’s Private Railroad, Brightline, Files for Bankruptcy State Farm to Increase Claims Workforce by 3,000 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States Take Cover as Nor’easter Hits More News Features .
• Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that he has filed a civil lawsuit and an $18.5 million settlement of the civil lawsuit with Partners in Nutrition, d/b/a Partners in Quality Care (“PIN”), that resolves claims that the non-profit knowingly defrauded …
• If, however, the Attorney General finds that PIN failed to provide materially accurate and complete financial disclosures, the stayed civil penalty shall be a $1 million dollar floor plus the entirety of any non-disclosed assets.

Why it matters to restoration

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