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58Sunliner

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9. Did you read it? They are federal charges.
Mon Apr 2, 2018, 11:03 PM
Apr 2018

How can the state set aside federal charges?? It was related to a federal program, not a state one.
"Brown worked in 2011 and 2012 for a nonprofit called JOBS Community Outreach Development Corp. that worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program to provide meals to low-income children during school breaks. Prosecutors say that Brown and others directed employees to fill out fake forms inflating the number of meals served and would then pocket the extra funds."
Apparently the overage was caught by an audit in 2013-14.

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