1. Fake daycare
2. Fake autism centers
3. Fake non-emergency transportation services
4. Fake home healthcare services
5. Fake Feeding Our Future
Five of the 10 Somali daycare centers that were visited by Nick Shirley in his viral exposé were also phony meal sites for the fraud-laden Somali “Feeding Our Future” organization which has seen over 90 people charged and at least 60 convicted.
Before thieving Somalis looted daycare tax dollars, attention has focused mostly on Somali looting w/ Feeding Our Future scandal, a federal program to feed needy children during the Covid seized on by Somali criminals to enrich themselves. Somalis submitted fraudulent claims for feeding enormous numbers of non-existent kids. Random name generators were popular applications in the Somali criminal community. Read on.
Four More Defendants Plead Guilty
to $250 Million Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme
Friday, February 7, 2025
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney’s Office
District of Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS – Four additional defendants have pleaded guilty for their roles in the $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa D. Kirkpatrick.
First, according to court documents, at times between October 2020 and January 2022, Abduljabar Hussein, 44, of Shakopee, Minnesota, knowingly and willfully conspired with others to participate in a fraudulent scheme to obtain and misappropriate millions in federal child nutrition funds.
According to court documents, in October 2020, Abduljabar Hussein’s wife, Mekfira Hussein, enrolled her non-profit, Shamsia Hopes, in the Federal Child Nutrition Program under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future, at the direction of one of its employees, Abdikerm Eidleh. Mekfira Hussein submitted her application to Aimee Bock, Feeding Our Future’s executive director. In December 2020 and also at the direction of Abdikerm Eidleh, Abduljabar Hussein registered his company, Oromia Feeds LLC, with the State of Minnesota. Oromia Feeds LLC also participated in the Federal Child Nutrition Program as a vendor for food to be served by Shamsia Hopes sites run by his wife.
Together, the Husseins submitted fraudulent claims that sought reimbursement for far more meals and food than they actually prepared. Hussein and his wife submitted fraudulently inflated invoices for reimbursement—including inflated meal counts and false attendance rosters. As part of this scheme, Hussein and his wife paid at least $140,000 in kickbacks to Eidleh and least $12,000 in kickbacks to Aimee Bock, in exchange for Feeding Our Future’s sponsorship of Shamsia Hopes. In some instances, these kickback payments were disguised as “consulting fees,” when, in fact, neither Eidleh nor Aimee Bock provided any service to justify these payments.
According to his plea agreement entered today, the Husseins ultimately obtained up to $8.8 million in federal child nutrition program funds some of which they used to pay for personal expenditures unrelated to feeding children. For instance, the defendant used $173,438 of the proceeds to pay off the mortgage on his home in Shakopee, Minnesota, and also purchased a 2021 Porsche for $93,250, as well as a 2022 GMC truck for $61,722. As part of his sentence, Hussein was ordered to forfeit those vehicles as well as a 2021 Tesla, and the fraud money he applied toward his home mortgage.
Next, according to court documents, Zamzam Jama, 50, and Mustafa Jama, 48, of Rochester, Minnesota, and Asha Jama, 42, of Lakeville, Minnesota, each pled guilty to laundering fraudulent proceeds that were paid by Feeding Our Future through the Federal Child Nutrition Program to Brava Restaurant. In October 2020, Brava Restaurant, which was located in a retail strip mall in Rochester, Minnesota, enrolled as a distribution site in the Federal Child Nutrition Program under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future.
The Jamas and their conspirators coordinated the establishment of shell companies through which they received and disbursed funds from the federal child nutrition program to make expenditures that had nothing to do with feeding children. Specifically, on January 7, 2021, Salim Said, a co-owner of Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis, paid to register six different shell companies with the state of Minnesota for the Jamas and others.
In 2021, Zamzam Jama, Mustafa Jama, and Asha Jama deposited at least $491,245, $1,429,730, and $449,933, in misappropriated Federal Child Nutrition Program funds into their respective shell entities’ bank accounts. The Jamas then used those funds for various personal expenditures that had nothing to do with feeding children.
Zamzam Jama spent Federal Child Nutrition Program funds on a home in Rosemount, Minnesota, and to purchase a 2021 Toyota RAV4 vehicle. With her guilty plea, Zamzam Jama has forfeited that vehicle, her interest in the Rosemount property, as well as $114,482 from her bank accounts in 2022 by federal investigators.
Mustafa Jama used Federal Child Nutrition Program funds to buy a home in Columbus, Ohio. He also spent $394,000 in program money toward a home in Lakeville, Minnesota, and to purchase Mediterranean coastal property in Alanya, Turkey. With his guilty plea, Mustafa Jama has forfeited any interest in the Ohio and Lakeville properties, as well as $239,500 from his bank accounts in 2022 by federal investigators.
Asha Jama spent Federal Child Nutrition Program funds toward a home in Lakeville, Minnesota, and another in Rochester, Minnesota. With her guilty plea, Zamzam Jama has forfeited her interest on those two properties any interest in that vehicle, the Rosemount property, as well as $149,880 seized from her bank accounts in 2022 by federal investigators.
In separate proceedings in U.S. District Court before Judge Nancy E. Brasel, Abduljabar Hussein pleaded guilty on February 5, 2024, to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud; Zamzam Jama pleaded guilty on February 5, 2025, to one count of money laundering; Mustafa Jama pleaded guilty on February 6, 2025, to one count of money laundering; and Asha Jama pleaded guilty on February 7, 2025, to one count of money laundering. Sentencing hearings for all four defendants will be scheduled at a later date.
The case is the result of an investigation by the FBI, IRS – Criminal Investigations, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew S. Ebert, Joseph H. Thompson, Harry M. Jacobs, and Daniel W. Bobier are prosecuting the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Baune is handling the seizure and forfeiture of assets.
Updated February 7, 2025
Didn’t they try to pin that on a white woman? I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried the same thing again.
These fraudsters know how to play the game, they create a fake “For the children” business in order to rip off the Govt and when the fraud is found out they can say “You cant do this, WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN!”
Feeding Our Future with STOLEN taxpayer cash
The original Black Panther Party in California originated a program in January, 1969 to feed low income children free breakfasts. They funded it on their own along with asking for donations of food and delivered the meals themselves.
“...party members and volunteers went to local grocery stores to solicit donations, consulted with nutritionists on healthful breakfast options for children, and prepared and served the food free of charge.”
History accounts say the later and ongoing US federal programs of breakfasts and now lunches at schools for children originated from the eventual cessation of the Black Panthers’ program. Some children had no meals at home and were falling asleep in class from lack of nutrition or having stomach cramps. Some children said that was the first time in their lives they had eaten a breakfast.
Now a Minnesota racket tie-in to take the money intended for children arose.
Evolution. Or devolution.
https://www.history.com/articles/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party
Over the years, an organization taking that much federal grant money should have been audited more than once. Hard to believe that the annual single audit did not include any on-site visits to confirm the existence and use. I guess things have changed......
One of the reasons that this country is being invaded by
foreignors every since Columbus sailed in 1492. Something
is attracting many to this land by the 100s. And some came
in voluntary just to get the goodies they hear that are in
supply for them to take, eat, wear and enjoy.
We need to get those table and needle food injectors up and
running to keep them fed.
Did they get money for giving haircuts as well?
And autism centers. And senior care centers. And women’s health care centers. And Refugee resettlement help centers.