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Posted on 10/06/2026 5:46:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
"Abdi Nur Salah and his co-conspirators used taxpayer money meant to support hungry children to buy themselves a life of luxury," an FBI official said.
Abdi Nur Salah, a former aide to Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, was sentenced last week to nearly three years in federal prison for his role in Minnesota’s sprawling Feeding Our Future scandal.
The scandal takes its name from the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, which sponsored meal sites throughout the state where free food for children was purportedly served. In reality, the defendants submitted fraudulent claims for reimbursement from the federal government for meals that were never actually served.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Salah and his co-conspirators operated an organization called Stigma-Free International under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future. As Alpha News previously reported, Stigma-Free International was originally formed by Democratic Minneapolis City Council Member Jamal Osman and others before Osman transferred it to a new group of owners. Osman has not been charged in the fraud scandal.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Salah acquired Stigma-Free International in October 2020 and then transferred ownership to his co-conspirators who used it to open a number of new meal sites throughout the state.
The co-conspirators fraudulently claimed to have served nearly five million meals to children at their sites from November 2020 to November 2021 using fake attendance rosters and invoices, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Based on the fraudulent claims, Feeding Our Future paid out over $10 million in federal reimbursements to the Stigma-Free International sites, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Additionally, Salah created multiple shell companies to launder his share of the fraud proceeds — approximately $1.6 million. He used the money to purchase homes and businesses.
“Abdi Nur Salah and his co-conspirators used taxpayer money meant to support hungry children to buy themselves a life of luxury,” said FBI Minneapolis Field Office Acting Special Agent in Charge Benni Jonsson.
“In defrauding the Federal Child Nutrition Program of more than $1.6 million, what this defendant bought himself is a federal prison sentence. We will continue to bring fraudsters to justice and defend the American taxpayer.”
Salah was arrested twice over the summer on unrelated drug and DWI offenses.
He pleaded guilty in January 2025 in the Feeding Our Future case and is the 31st defendant to be sentenced.
“This defendant decided to steal funds meant for vulnerable children,” U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen said in a Thursday statement. “Today’s sentence represents my office’s unwavering commitment to holding accountable those who defraud the American taxpayers.”
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Why is Frey not in gaol?
Do they get deported after they serve their time? If not, what’s the point?
Excellent news.
Where is Tampon Tim’s arrest?
You just have to understand that “Feeding Our Future” had to be taken literally when the mayor and his deputy talked about the program.
YES. Funding our Friends Frey should be fried. TRAITOR.
Good question. Totalitarian Tim should be tingling with electricity. TRAITOR.
I do not know in particular, but most of the Somalis are here for quite a long time.
So they are likely to be citizens by now.
And in positions of authority like this guy or Omar, the congresswoman.
“Why is Frey not in gaol?”
Great question. Who’s protecting him?
I thought Glen died a few years back...
Pronto!
Exactly.
George Soros and the world enslavement forum.
Wrong Frey................
“George Soros and the world enslavement forum.”
Very likely so.
How much kick back did Frey receive?
How soon before Illinois passes the “Stop Nick Shirley” Act like California did to put a stop into any inquiries into fraud?
SHOULD BE 300 YEARS.
You know who else is connected with Feeding Our Future?
The wife of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
@greg_geiger
Yes, Mayor Jacob Frey’s wife, Sarah Clarke (also known as Sarah Stephens Frey), worked as a lobbyist at Hylden Advocacy & Law, a firm led by Nancy Hylden that represented Feeding Our Future (often referred to as “Feed Our Future”) as its attorney and lobbyist. Nancy Hylden appeared in federal court alongside Feeding Our Future’s executive director, Aimee Bock, following the FBI raids in January 2022 that exposed the massive COVID-19 relief fraud scheme involving over $250 million in misappropriated federal child nutrition funds.
Key Details on the Connection
• Sarah Clarke’s Role: Clarke was employed at Hylden Advocacy & Law until January 2022, representing nonprofits, businesses, and community organizations before the Minnesota legislature and executive agencies. The firm’s work included lobbying on behalf of Feeding Our Future, which was listed in the organization’s annual reports filed with the Minnesota Attorney General as far back as 2019.
• Timing of Departure: Clarke left the firm in January 2022, coinciding with the FBI raids on Feeding Our Future’s offices and related sites. Critics, including local activists and journalists, have questioned whether this timing suggests foreknowledge or influence from Frey’s connections, such as his reported friendship with U.S. Attorney Andy Luger (who oversaw the federal indictments). However, no charges have been filed against Clarke, Frey, or Nancy Hylden, and Frey has denied any personal awareness of the fraud.
• Firm’s Involvement: Hylden Advocacy & Law’s tagline is “your friend at the Capitol,” and it has lobbied extensively for clients tied to Minnesota’s political establishment, including support for figures like Attorney General Keith Ellison and Governor Tim Walz. Feeding Our Future paid the firm for legal and advocacy services, which helped the nonprofit push back against state oversight from the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) before the fraud was uncovered
I really don't care. They scammed over $200 million from a fund intended to feed hungry children. Used his power in the mayors office to help accomplish this theft. They literally stole hundreds of millions of dollars from poor and hungry children. All he is getting is 3 years?
If that isn't grounds to get your newly acquired citizenship revoked, what is?
One thing we know for sure. All the democrat politicians got their cut.
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