ST. PAUL -- Last fall, the nonprofit food distributor Feeding Our Future returned to court to engage on a new front in its longstanding war with the Minnesota Department of Education, armed with the claim that a department employee had stolen food intended for needy children.
The issue? A single bag of groceries with a federal reimbursement value of $103.32.
The nonprofit claimed a state outreach worker stole the groceries in October from a busy distribution site in South Minneapolis.
The worker said she accepted the food only after a site staffer insisted, explaining it would have been “awkward” to have refused a second time.
After several court filings and a hearing over a temporary restraining order and injunction, the judge in November dismissed the skirmish as having “nothing to do” with Feeding Our Future’s broader case, in which it accused the state of illegally refusing to sign off on new food distribution sites and process reimbursement claims.
Now, that lawsuit is over.
One week after FBI agents raided the offices, homes and distribution sites of Feeding Our Future and some of its largest clients in search of evidence supporting a “massive fraud” in the tens of millions of dollars, the nonprofit on Thursday agreed to drop its lawsuit against the state, according to a court filing.
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