On Wednesday, House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued subpoenas to Gov. Walz and the Biden Administration’s USDA and its Office of Inspector General (OIG) to obtain previously-denied information regarding their respective responses to the fraud case.
“In 2022, a U.S. attorney charged 70 individuals associated with Minnesota-based Feeding Our Future (FOF) for their alleged roles in defrauding the USDA of over $250 million in taxpayer funds—money intended to feed hungry children,” Foxx’s office explains in a press release providing background on the case:
“To date, five individuals have been convicted of fraud that the assistant U.S. attorney on the case called ‘not just criminal, [but] depraved and brazen.’ ….
