The camera outside Safari Restaurant was rolling 24 hours a day, telling a very different story than the payment forms that made the south Minneapolis restaurant the No. 1 fraud recipient in the massive criminal empire overseen by Feeding Our Future, according to the FBI agent who initiated the surveillance in December 2021.
Though the restaurant claimed to feed nearly 3,500 children a day that month, there were no lines outside the restaurant, no cars fighting for parking spots. Just hours and hours of empty, snow-covered sidewalks, broken up by an occasional visitor or two…