Spending & Taxes
Fraud charges for former county worker
Last week, the state Attorney General’s office reported, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) charged Jessica Jean Arneson with seven felony theft offenses for stealing more than $185,000 while working as a…
Feeding Our Future fugitive pleads not guilty
Said Abdullahi Ereg, a former international fugitive, made his first appearance in federal court…
Feeding Our Future fugitive nabbed
Said Abdullahi Ereg, an international fugitive wanted in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, has…
More Money Won’t Fix Our Schools. Our Data Proves It
For decades, America has been told that the key to better schools is more money. Underperformance,…
The coming squeeze on state budgets
Yesterday, I wrote about the looming crisis in federal government finances. This will have impacts…
The federal budget crisis
In every year since 2001, the federal government has spent more money than it collects in taxes. As Figure 1 shows, while federal revenues have increased from $2.0 trillion in 2001 to 5.2 trillion in 2025 — a rise of 163% — outlays have risen from…
They knew all along about fraud
The U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee released a comprehensive report on fraud in…
500 months and $242 million
Last month, Aimee Bock, Feeding Our Future founder and CEO, was sentenced to 500 months in federal…
Minnesota’s most wanted
The feds are offering a $150,000 reward for one of the international fugitives in the Feeding Our…
More fraud tourism
They call it the City of Brotherly Love, but Philadelphia is quickly growing a national reputation…
TRENDING
