The meals were imaginary. The restitution is five million dollars real.
A Rochester man joins the long line of defendants ordered to repay millions in the largest pandemic fraud in American history. The meals were on paper. The money was not.
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The board seat was already warm when they gave it away
Susan Watkins had served six years on a board that controls more than $120 million in mandatory farmer money, and she had already been selected as treasurer when the U.S. Department of Agriculture quietly replaced her with someone else. The USDA has not explained why. The board has not explained why. Nobody has explained why.