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Federal prosecutors have charged around 90 people in connection with state and federal program frauds, including nutrition, health care, and housing assistance schemes. There have been 57 guilty pleas and convictions in one program alone"the so-called Feeding our Future scheme, named after a Minnesota nonprofit which billed the government for hundreds of millions of meals during the pandemic that were never served. Estimates of the cost to taxpayers range from $250 million to $1 billion. Most of the defendants are of East African descent and believed to be part of Minnesota's Somali community, the largest in the U.S.