Ringleader Of $250M COVID Child Meals Fraud Gets 41 Years

By Bonnie Eslinger ( May 22, 2026, 10:46 PM EDT) -- A Minnesota woman has been sentenced to 500 months in prison for her lead role in a $250 million scheme that defrauded a federally funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday....

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