On the second day of testimony in the Feeding Our Future trial, Aimee Bock’s attorney pressed the Minnesota Department of Education about how it vetted food sites.

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A Minnesota Department of Education official testified Tuesday that the agency verified addresses of food sites before approving them to receive federal funding, but left further vetting to a nonprofit that allegedly led the theft of $250 million.

  • m_fAEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Through a lengthy exchange, Honer told Udoibok that MDE processes new food site applications by checking to ensure that the address is a location where a food site can operate, and then adding them to an internal system.

    “So, you just approve them?” Udoibok said.

    “I would disagree,” Honer said.

    oof. That’s essentially no verification

    • dumples@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Yeah it obvious that the way the system was set up was there was very little upfront verifications with it being off loaded to the non-profit and then pushed to the USDA for after the fact prosecution. So a strange system for sure with lots of trust on the non-profits.

      But I can see the need for speed during a global pandemic but can see it was taken advantage of.