“We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice.”
Youths
in communities are denied even basic needs from shelter, water, and food due to
fraud and embezzlement.
The
focus of the CNN article is on Minnesota.
Fraud, embezzlement, kickbacks are prevalent in all major cities
in the U.S., not just South-to-South nations when we think of island
nations, the continent (Africa), and other nations globally. This is a global issue.
Our
credibility and trust are being eroded with our youth that are looking for direction
and guidance, and our “leading by example”.
This is the example that we are setting.
For
similar types of programs that submitted fraudulent claims, and other federal
or state illegal activities that arose during the COVID-19 crisis. There is still time to recover trust
and credibility with our youths, our next generation leaders that are following
our example.
CDS
Chair\CEO
BEMA International
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/politics/doj-minnesota-covid-fraud-scheme-feeding-our-future/index.html
DOJ charges 47 people with stealing $250
million from pandemic program meant to provide meals to needy children
By Hannah Rabinowitz and Omar
Jimenez, CNN
Updated 4:41 PM ET, Tue September 20, 2022
CNN)The Justice Department on Tuesday announced charges against 47
people accused of stealing $250 million from a federal program designed to
provide meals for needy children during the pandemic.
According to the
department, the scheme is the largest Covid-19-related fraud uncovered
by investigators to date. The defendants are facing a range of charges,
including conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, and paying and receiving
illegal kickbacks.
The defendants,
prosecutors said, set up a network of shell companies connected to the
Minnesota-based nonprofit Feeding our Future, to exploit the federal child
nutrition program, which is designed to provide meals to children from
low-income families. The program was expanded by Congress at the start of the
pandemic to allow more organizations to participate.
"Feeding Our
Future employees recruited individuals and entities to open Federal Child
Nutrition Program sites throughout the state of Minnesota," the Justice
Department said in a release.
"These sites,
created and operated by the defendants and others, fraudulently claimed to be
serving meals to thousands of children a day within just days or weeks of
being formed." ………………………………………………READ MORE at…
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Charles D. Sharp
Chair\CEO
Black Emergency Managers Association International
Cornell University Climate Fellow
Deputy Chair, Global Health Security Agenda Consortium
Washington, D.C. 20020
bEMA International
Cooperation,
Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement,
and Partnering (C5&P)
A
501 (c) 3 organization
“We need leaders
not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love
with humanity. Leaders who can subject
their particular egos to the pressing urgencies of the great cause of
freedom…a time like this demands great leaders.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
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