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Posted on 01/01/2026 1:05:42 PM PST by Morgana
Five of the 10 Somali daycare centers that were visited by Nick Shirley in his viral exposé on alleged fraud in Minnesota were also meal sites for the fraud-laden "Feeding Our Future" organization. The case surrounding fraud with "Feeding Our Future" has seen over 90 people charged and at least 60 people have been convicted.
According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, half of the 10 daycare facilities that were visited by Shirley were also connected to Feeding Our Future as "meal sites." Altogether, the five daycare businesses got nearly $5 million from Feeding Our Future between 2018 and 2021. The five businesses that were featured in Shirley’s report have not been legally accused of wrongdoing in the case, but have been brought under higher scrutiny since Shirley's exposé.
Of the 10 daycare sites the Tribune visited, reporters with the outlet said that only four of them had any children present, and in the other cases, "Six other facilities were either closed or employees did not open their doors," the outlet said.
In one facility that was licensed for over 100 children, only 50 were present. The daycare center that was at the core of Shirley's exposé, the Quality "Learing" Center, which has since corrected a typo in its sign to "Learning", has had a slew of violations over the past few years. A Minnesota resident also said that Monday—a few days after Shirley's report—was the first time they had ever seen children at the daycare.
In 2024, the daycare had a violation for not reporting a “death, serious injury, fire or emergency as required." However, in that case, like dozens of others, the state's website said the daycare center corrected the violation with "Correction Documentation" which was then approved by Minnesota.
Shirley's exposé—where he and a Minnesota local by the name of David investigate the operation of several Somali-run daycare centers—has gone viral online, with over 130 million views on X and nearly 3 million on YouTube. After its release, the Trump administration has frozen all child care payments going to Minnesota. Some in the mainstream media and on the left have now taken aim at Shirley instead of looking deeper into his allegations of fraud.
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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
Scamalis is them 200%
Photo....
I am so downtrodden to the capitalist Americans that my taxpayer paid phone contract was rated second best by Consumer Report again. The capitalists get the best one.
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......
I’m guessing each facility has a license for all 5.
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.
Yep. And one office in one building had 14 companies registered there.
Federal prosecutors have identified specific instances where individuals and entities involved in the criminal Somali “Feeding Our Future” fraud scheme also used Somali-run daycare centers, as part of Somali interconnected fraudulent activities.
At least one defendant, Asha Farhan Hassan, was charged and pleaded guilty in connection to both a multi-million dollar autism services fraud scheme (trading as a “Smart Therapy” center) and the separate “Feeding Our Future” fraud.
In the latter, she allegedly received hundreds of thousands of tax dollars by claiming to serve nearly fictitious 200,000 meals to children that were never provided through an officially listed food distribution site.
The core Feeding Our Future case involved creating dozens of shell companies and fraudulent meal sites, some of which operated out of storefront delis or purported “tutoring centers.” These sites submitted falsified documents to claim tax dollars reimbursement for millions of meals that were never actually served.
The Feeding Our Future case is the largest Somali fraud extant today, but federal and state authorities are also investigating other, separate fraud schemes in Minnesota’s social services system, including the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) and Medicaid programs. While these are distinct cases, some reports indicate that the same Somali criminal networks are involved in multiple, layered fraud schemes.
Some daycare facilities and other centers were used as venues or fronts to fraudulently claim tax funds in both the specific Feeding Our Future child nutrition program fraud and other state/federal aid scams.
The operations were patently “phony” in that they claimed tax funds for services and meals that were never provided or were vastly inflated.
Department of Justice (.gov)
Everything we know about Minnesota’s massive fraud schemes
Dec 30, 2025 — Autism program fraud. In recent months, two people were charged with defrauding a third state program...
CBS News
77th Defendant Charged in Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme
Nov 19, 2025 — For Immediate Release. U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota. After being disqualified from SNAP for suspected...
Department of Justice (.gov)
Yep. And one office in one building had
14 companies registered there.
********
Doesn’t take a lot of space for a cabinet
and the paper work for registration.
The white woman was the founder of “Feeding Our Future” and it was “pinned on her“ because she is guilty as hell and convicted and jailed.
Now her boyfriend may have been involved but she founded the scam charity and promoted it the whole way.
Her name is Bock and she is not a victim.
Alanya, Turkey… that is an interesting choice
Sahan Journal
Joey Peters reporting
Somali Salim Said convicted of $30 million tax dollar theft
Faced several criminal charges: conspiracy to commit wire fraud, four counts of wire fraud,
conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery, eight counts of bribery,
conspiracy to commit money laundering and five counts of money laundering.
Federal prosecutors allege that the businesses Salim Said worked with fraudulently collected around $30 million of federal food-aid money that was supposed to feed children during the pandemic. Salim Said allegedly received $5.5 million for himself, using it to buy a $1 million mansion in Plymouth and several luxury cars. He is on trial with Feeding Our Future’s former executive director, Aimee Bock, the alleged mastermind behind the fraud. Bock completed testimony in her case last week. The alleged fraud involved Feeding Our Future receiving federal funds through the Minnesota Department of Education. Feeding Our Future then distributed those funds to food vendors and food sites like Safari Restaurant, which were supposed to provide ready-to-eat meals to local children during the pandemic.
Working through “Feeding Our Future,” several Somali organizations reported serving thousands more meals than they actually did, or never served any at all, in order to receive more federal reimbursement dollars, according to prosecutors. Salim Said also testified under cross-examination that he created Salim Limited, which prosecutors allege was a shell company to launder money, on instructions from Safari Restaurant’s other co-owner, Abdulkadir Salah. Salim Said denied that Salim Limited was a shell company, and said Abdulkadir Salah told him that banks would want him to put his profits into a limited liability company instead of his personal bank account.
He testified that Abdulkadir Salah worked as his accountant, and prepared several checks for him to sign. Abdulkadir Salah was originally scheduled to stand trial with Salim Said, but pleaded guilty to wire fraud in January before trial.
Salim Said also said Abdulkadir Salah instructed him to give regular checks to Feeding Our Future employee Abdikerm Eidleh. He denied that they were kickback payments in exchange for enrollment in the federal food program. Instead, Salim Said said, he raised concerns about paying Abdikerm Eidleh.“I called Abdulkadir and asked, ‘Why do you have a check for Eidleh who works for Feeding Our Future?’” Salim Said testified. “He said, ‘He’s a contractor with Feeding Our Future, he can work with us.’” Thompson emphasized that Salim Said would send regular emails to Abdikerm Eidleh’s Feeding Our Future email account.
“You would email him meal claims?” Thompson asked, referring to documentation of the number of meals Safari Restaurant reported serving. “Yes,” Salim Said responded. “Because he worked for Feeding Our Future, correct?” Thompson asked. “Yes,” Salim Said responded. Adbikerm Eidleh, who is charged in the case, is currently an international fugitive.
Salim Said was also co-owner of ASA Limited, a food site in St. Paul that purported to serve 3,000 meals a day made by Safari Restaurant. But Salim Said distanced himself from ASA Limited in his testimony, saying instead that he was an investor who helped get the company off the ground, but didn’t handle day-to-day operations. He said that he and Abdihakim Ahmed, another defendant in the case, opened ASA Limited to serve the large number of Somali residents who lived nearby who had been traveling to Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis. Abdihakim Ahmed’s case is pending.
Salim Said said that at a point in the pandemic, he stopped working at Safari Restaurant and went to work at the Park Avenue mansion the restaurant used as headquarters under the name, Cosmopolitan Business Solutions. Prosecutors allege that Salim Said and others bought the mansion with federal food money and used it to create several fake food sites, including many under the name Stigma-Free International. Salim Said testified that he left the restaurant to spend more time with his two young kids, and worked as an investor for Cosmopolitan Business Solutions. Thompson noted that Salim Said paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to get several food sites up and running, knowing that they were going to make millions of dollars.
“I invest money to make money,” Salim Said said. “You were making $1 million a month at Safari,” Thompson said. “You knew you would get a similar return for ASA Limited.” Salim Said said he didn’t know how many people would show up each day. Thompson then asked about the four Stigma-Free International food sites inWillmar, St. Paul, Mankato and the St. Cloud area that Safari Restaurant claimed to supply food to.
“I don’t know anything about Stigma-Free,” he said, saying again that he was only an investor. Thompson emphasized that Stigma-Free’s Willmar location claimed to feed the equivalent of three-quarters of the city’s entire school district.“Yes, but there are small towns all around,” Salim Said said. “People would go out and deliver food.”“Were you there?” Thompson asked. “No, but that’s what people would say, and I saw the videos from Liban,” he said, referring to Safari Restaurant’s social media employee.
Salim Said also distanced himself from allegedly faked rosters of children that were emailed to him. At one point, Thompson showed an Excel document for one of the rosters showing that it used a formula to randomly generate ages for children that were reportedly served. “There’d be no reason to do this if they were real kids, correct?” Thompson asked.
“You’re going to have to ask the person that did this,” Salim Said responded.
abduljavar Hussein and wife have a house in Shakopee?
Interesting ,there has been trouble in Shakopee for a while:
Hundreds of (Moslem) Teens Rampage Through Park, Terrorizing Kids
Independent Sentinel ^ | September 25, 2018 | S. Noble
Posted on 9/25/2018, 10:59:44 PM by E. Pluribus Unum
Hundreds of teens identified as Somalis rampaged through the Valley Fair Amusement Park in Shakopee, Minnesota. It was the first night of the ValleyScare activities.
Police said, “The number of individuals running throughout the park increased substantially and was difficult to control.” They had to shut the park down early as the numbers of teens in the mob grew to hundreds.
People described them fighting, terrorizing children, pushing children, knocking over Halloween props.
One victim said the media doesn’t want this out because three Muslims are running for office.
(Excerpt) Read more at independentsentinel.com ...
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