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Feeding Our Future investigation—and its subsequent expansions into broader welfare and Medicaid fraud schemes in Minnesota—occurred almost entirely under FBI Director Christopher Wray. Wray Deserves Credit: Critics Overlook Years of Work Before Patel The Feeding Our Future investigation in MN, was a multi-year effort that began well before Kash Patel became FBI Director in 2025—yet critics often act as if the case sprang to life overnight under new leadership.  Key Timeline of the Investigation: Early 2021 (Feb–Apr/May): The Minnesota Department of Education flagged potential fraud and referred the case to the FBI. The investigation officially opened during Christopher Wray’s tenure (2017–Jan 2025).  Jan 20, 2022: Major FBI search warrants and raids on Feeding Our Future sites publicly reveal the probe’s scale.  Sep 20, 2022: Initial indictments against 47–48 defendants.  2023–2024: Additional indictments bring the total to ~70; trials and guilty pleas proceed.  2025: More charges push the total past 78 defendants; founder Aimee Bock convicted in March. Ongoing prosecutions and pleas continue.  The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota led the case, with the FBI, IRS-CI, and other agencies handling the complex financial investigation. Tracing shell companies, fake invoices, bank records, and money laundering naturally takes years, explaining why indictments and convictions stretched into 2025.  Kash Patel’s Role He publicly highlighted the case in mid-2025 as one of Minnesota’s worst fraud schemes. But there’s no evidence he started or accelerated the investigation “in just a few months”—the groundwork was laid years earlier.  Critics who claim Wray was “slow or insufficiently aggressive” ignore this reality. White-collar fraud cases require painstaking work to secure ironclad evidence. The results—dozens of convictions and hundreds of millions potentially recovered—show the investigation was robust, not dormant.  By late 2025, the Feeding Our Future case had produced 70+ indictments and dozens of convictions. The heavy lifting started under Wray, long before Patel’s tenure. And we know there are other cases brewing in other states, like California, that Wray also worked on.  Yet politics turns everything into a grudge match, and Wray continues to get unfairly criticized. SMH.