Posted on 06/03/2024 6:44:34 PM PDT by joesbucks
A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic.
These seven are the first of 70 defendants expected to go to trial in a conspiracy that cost taxpayers $250 million. Eighteen others have pleaded guilty, and authorities said they recovered about $50 million in one of the nation’s largest pandemic-related fraud cases. Prosecutors say just a fraction of the money went to feed low-income kids, while the rest was spent on luxury cars, jewelry, travel and property.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
$200 Million in Somali Welfare Fraud Paid for Trips to Mecca-Rep. Ilhan Omar’s favorite restaurant claimed to be feeding 6,000 kids a day
Frontpagemagazine ^ | Feb 8, 2022 | Daniel Greenfield
Posted on 2/9/2022, 9:16:30 AM by SJackson
Feeding Our Future, the Minnesota food charity sponsor whose offices have been raided by the FBI over allegations of massive fraud that some estimates have placed in the hundreds of millions of dollars, claimed that it wants to make “the world a better place for all”.
10 members of FOF’s staff boast of speaking Somali, others of Arabic and related languages often spoken by Muslim minorities, but only 3 speak Spanish and only 1 knows Chinese. The organization’s Manager of Operations, Food Program Coordinators Manager, Food Program Support Manager, and multiple administrators, all appear to be Somali.
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“In early 2021, two men named in recently unsealed search warrant affidavits donated a total of $5,400 to Omar’s campaign. The FBI affidavits list Ahmed Ghedi and Abdihakim Ahmed as associates of Safari Restaurant and Event Center. Both allegedly controlled shell companies that received $1.1 million in federal child nutrition money from a co-owner of Safari Restaurant. The two men separately helped two others buy a $2.8 million mansion in Minneapolis with child nutrition money to use as an office building, the FBI alleges.
Ahmed donated $2,700 to Omar’s campaign on February 23 and Abdihakim gave the same amount to her on March 31. Federal prosecutors have not charged Ahmed or Abdihakim, nor anybody else named in the search warrants, with any crimes...../snip
...The investigation reportedly ensnared Abdi Nur Salah, former senior policy aid at the office of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who co-purchased a south Minneapolis apartment building with money “traceable to the fraud and money laundering scheme”, according to the report.
There were 14 properties tied to the alleged fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office..../snip
Somalis known to be connected to Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar and a Mayor Frey
I’m going to start showing up for jury duty.
This is actually an excellent point, and one I didn't think of [which is why we come to Free Republic].
My thought was "well, there goes $120,000".
I didn't stop to think about the reaction of a Musloid gang to some retard juror who handed THEIR WELL-STOLEN MONEY back to the government, with no gain by them.
As we can see, our local FR Democrat Party operative has no interest in that side of the story.
Perhaps.
So, if you take the money, and deliver the acquittal vote, you run the risk of the government finding out.
However, it's folding money, and if you and your family are not stupid, it's at least six years of High Clover [as an addition to your normal income] - not including a possible supplement after the fact.
ON THE OTHER HAND - you coughed up The Skinny Mafia's hard-stolen cash to the law.
They know who you are, and know where you live. They know who your family is.
Between a rock and a hard place - Hobson's Choice.
You ain’t the sharpest bulb in the drawer.
Bulbs typically aren’t sharp. They’re bright. Knives are sharp. You are neither. More like a roadie. Grover Dill.
Why wasn’t the jury sequestered?
And did someone want that particular juror kicked out?
Inquiring minds want to know.
120k ? They know you took 40 M. 🤔😂
Some? I’d LOVE to see an inquiry into the banking records of the ‘jurors’ who convicted Trump
Too risky. Chances are someone would find out.
Tell us about rocket surgery now. Jeesh.
EC
Threats and/or fear of retaliation usually work better than money ... just ask the Trump jury members.
They got money?
The jurors really had no choice even if they wanted one (which is likely no more than one or two even considered having a choice.) I don't like it ... but I get it ... and this is just another example of what the Democrat/Communist Party Left is doing to our society and our Republic.
Merchan immigrated to the US when he was 6 years old. He got his JD from Hofstra University School of Law on Long Island, so maybe they weren’t really strong on the US Constitution. Perhaps he never read it.
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