Man involved with Feeding Our Future fraud gets 3 years in prison

An electric transmission line in northeast Minnesota is facing opposition from people fighting a proposed data center. The state Public Utilities Commission is holding hearings on the proposed power line from Grand Rapids to Hermantown. Google wants to build a massive data center where the line would end.

A man who operated a banquet hall that was a key part of the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme is heading to prison for more than three years. Abdullahe Jesow used a fake nonprofit called Academy for Youth Excellence to siphon $4.3 million from taxpayer funded child nutrition programs by falsely claiming to have served millions of meals to kids during COVID.

A bill to provide onetime school safety money to public, charter and private schools has advanced through a Senate committee. The bill would provide it to public schools on a per-pupil basis. There would be grants that private schools could apply for.

Minnesota’s Immigrant Rapid Response Fund is wrapping up its emergency phase after deploying about $12 million to organizations statewide. The fund was created in response to what advocates describe as a sweeping immigration enforcement operation earlier this year — one that led to widespread arrests, economic disruption, and fear across immigrant communities.

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Opponents of data centers join with critics of power line proposal in northern Minnesota

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