$2.4M Fraud: Feeding Our Future Defendant Gets 43 Months
Minneapolis, MN (KROC-AM News) - Another defendant in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scandal is headed to prison.
The office of the US Attorney for Minnesota says 54-year-old Sharon Denise Ross of Willernie was indicted by a federal jury two years ago on wire fraud and money laundering charges. According to court documents, Ross was the executive director of the House of Refuge In the Twin Cities when she enrolled the nonprofit organization in the Federal Child Nutrition Program under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future and Partners in Nutrition.
It was alleged that she submitted fraudulent claims and received approximately $2.4 million in reimbursements through the federal program. Federal prosecutors say she claimed to have served nearly 900,000 meals to children at multiple sites in the Twin Cities during the COVID pandemic.
Ross, who previously entered a guilty plea to the wire fraud charge, has been sentenced to 43 months in prison.
In handing down her sentence today, the judge noted that she was on probation for another fraud when she "used a position of trust in the community" for her own "flagrant personal gain."
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