ST. PAUL, Minn. – A local nonprofit has reached a settlement with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office.
Pelican Rapids-based Dan Ottoson Ministries, Inc., reached the settlement after it was uncovered that the organization engaged in conflicted transactions and self-interested lending. An investigation conducted by Attorney General Ellison’s Charities Division found that Dan Ottoson Ministries engaged in a number of self-interested loans and other transactions totaling $238,000 for purposes unrelated to the charity.
Dan Ottoson Ministries is required to repay $238,000 in self-dealing loans and change their governance deficiencies that allowed the loans to happen.
The nonprofit did not have a fully functional board of directors ‘for several years,’ according to Ellison’s office.
