Posted on 02/14/2025 10:40:09 AM PST by CFW
I attended the Feeding-Our-Future trial from opening statements on Monday through adjournment for the weekend yesterday at noon. This is the second of the cases to come to trial. The indictment charged a total of 70 defendants with fraud, but this trial features the all-stars: ringleader Aimee Bock, founder and executive director of Feeding Our Future, and Salim Said, co-owner of two grossly fraudulent sites, Safari-Restaurant (just off Lake Street in Minneapolis) and ASA-Limited (small storefront at a Maplewood strip mall). Two of the co-defendants in this case pleaded guilty on January 28.
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By October 2020, Safari claimed to serve breakfasts and lunches for roughly 6,000 kids seven days a week. Honer testified that she suspected MDE was being taken for a ride by Bock and the sites that Feeding Our Future sponsored, but didn’t get around to calling on the FBI until an unspecified date in April 2021, some $250 million too late.
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Omar posted video of her appearance at Safari in early May 2020 on Facebook — see it here.The Center of the American Experiment’s Bill Glahn previewed this aspect of the case in his October 16, 2022 post “Feeding Our Future: the Ilhan Omar/Safari Restaurant connections.” Bill observed (citations omitted):
As the first search warrant in the case documents, by July 2020, Safari was claiming to feed 5,000 children per day out of the restaurant, seven days a week. By March 2021, they had upped the claim to 6,000 per day (p. 23). As the indictment documents, “In all, the defendants claim to have served more than 3.9 million meals to children at the Safari Restaurant site between April 2020 and November 2021.” That time period would have covered the date of the…video.
Bill drily commented: “Apparently, Rep. Omar visited the restaurant during a lull.”
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If you are unfamiliar with the case, approx 70 Somalians and one white female ringleader, defrauded the taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars while pretending to feed school children during the Covid pandemic. No meals were served but invoices were sent and paid. The trial of the ring-leader started this week.
Last year, during the trial of the first 2 defendants, one jury found a bag of cash on her front stoop one morning. She immediately reported it to the Court. There is a lot of corruption going on in MN.
Deport the lot
light the fire under her skinny somali a##
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