Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced last month that his office had settled its inquiry into nonprofit Partners in Nutrition (PIN) relating to misuse of state child nutrition funds. PIN agreed to pay its remaining funds, totaling $18.5 million, to cooperate with any ongoing AG investigations, and to dissolve. From the AG’s press release:
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced today that he has filed a civil lawsuit and an $18.5 million settlement of the civil lawsuit with Partners in Nutrition, d/b/a Partners in Quality Care (“PIN”), that resolves claims that the non-profit knowingly defrauded the State of Minnesota out of millions of dollars in federal child nutrition funds during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, in violation of the Minnesota False Claims Act. . . . In the consent judgment that Attorney General Ellison filed in court today, Partners in Nutrition agrees to (1) pay $18,517,909.27, which represents the entirety of the funds in the nonprofit’s possession, (2) produce to the Attorney General’s Office additional documents and communications related to PIN’s participation as a food program sponsor that were not already provided in the course of the Office’s investigation, and (3) voluntarily and permanently dissolve as an entity.
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