Saint Mary’s business professor Derek Jackson was featured in a recent Star Tribune article, “As COVID spread, so did fraud. Minnesota saw a lot of it.” Jackson discussed how federal relief funds during the pandemic led to an increase in financial fraud, most notoriously within child nutrition nonprofit, Feeding Our Future. Jackson speaks more in depth about the Feeding Our Future fraud case on our Currents podcast. Listen to his episode here.
From the Story:
“‘Economists can debate this, but if the government hadn’t acted quickly, it would have been much tougher to recover,’ said Derek Jackson, business professor at St. Mary’s University in Winona.
But government oversight of the money failed at times, Jackson and others who follow COVID fraud say.”
