The Feeding Our Future meal fraud investigation is expanding. Federal agents on Thursday searched the offices of the New Vision Foundation, a St. Paul nonprofit allegedly connected to a sprawling scheme to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from two taxpayer-funded nutrition programs for children in need during the pandemic.
Agents were seen removing computers and other items from NVF’s Vandalia St. offices early Thursday afternoon. According to its website, NVF was founded “to create pathways to success by motivating disadvantaged youth in Minnesota through coding and digital literacy classes.”
But in a search warrant, FBI Special Agent Travis Wilmer writes that NVF operated two phony meal distribution sites under the sponsorship of the defunct nonprofit Feeding Our Future…