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Judge Warned Tim Walz to Stop His Lying About $250 Million Fraud by Minnesota Somalis
Breitbart ^ | 8-7-2024 | Tim Moran
Posted on 8/18/2024, 9:27:13 AM by dennisw

Ramsey County District Court Judge John Guthmann in 2022 admonished Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) for making “inaccurate” and “false” statements in claiming he forced the governor to continue making payments to the scandal-ridden Feeding Our Future nonprofit, which is at the center of a scheme to steal $250 million from a coronavirus-era welfare program. Breitbart News reported about how Gov. Walz’s lax oversight of a federal food aid program led to dozens of Somali migrants stealing $250 million for a program meant for children in need. In September 2022, the Justice Department charged 47 Somali immigrants in Minnesota with stealing $250 million from a coronavirus relief program meant to feed needy children. Only $50 million has been recovered as of June.

Breitbart News reported in June: The Somali scheme involved the 47 defendants, whom prosecutors say created an umbrella group called “Feeding Our Future” and then created numerous sub-groups that were advertised as bringing food to needy children during the pandemic. The accused allegedly used the fraudulent groups to file for relief funding at mosques across Minnesota. Once they obtained the funding, they reported feeding thousands of children every day and supplied rosters of non-existent children to the government to show their outreach. One such fraudulent feeding center was so brazen that it just copied all the names from a website called listofrandomnames.com and sent that list to federal authorities to claim that it fed the people on the list, prosecutors said.

An audit by a nonpartisan watchdog found that Walz’s Department of Education failed to conduct proper oversight over the program. Walz has claimed that he was forced to continue making payments to Feeding Our Future, which Guthmann strongly slapped down in a statement. (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

doj.gov

The thieving Somalis colluded to recruit other Somalis to open
phony Child Nutrition Program sites throughout Walz’s Minnesota.
<><>They fraudulently claimed 1000’s of children a day were fed within just days or weeks of being formed.
<><>they created dozens of phony shell companies to enroll in the federal program
<><>phony shell companies were invented to receive and launder the $250 million fraudulent proceeds
<><>they falsified documents to get their hands on tax dollars
<><>They submitted fraudulent data to document the number of children and meals served
<><>They submitted false invoices purporting to document the purchase of food served to phantom children
<><> The Somalis submitted fake attendance rosters purporting to list the names and ages of children being fed
<><>rosters were fabricated and created using fake names from a website called “www.listofrandomnames.com.”
<><>the federal program only reimbursed for meals served to children,
<><>so the conniving Somalis used an Excel formula to falsify the age column of the rosters.

Despite knowing the claims were fraudulent, the Somali’s phony, “Feeding Our Future,” submitted fraudulent claims and then disbursed the fraudulently obtained Federal Child Nutrition Program funds to the individuals and entities colluding in the scheme.

<><>In exchange for sponsoring these sites’ fraudulent participation in the program, “Feeding Our Future” received more than $18 million in administrative fees to which it was not entitled.

<><>In addition to the administrative fees, Feeding Our Future employees solicited and received bribes and kickbacks from individuals and companies sponsored by Feeding Our Future.

<><>Many of these kickbacks were paid in cash or disguised as “consulting fees” paid to shell companies created by Feeding Our Future employees to make them appear legitimate.

The thieving Somalis went on high-end spending sprees purchasing luxury cars and property