Posted on 04/15/2025 6:41:32 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison raked in $10,000 in campaign donations shortly after meeting with individuals linked to a nonprofit that stole $250 million from a federal program meant to feed hungry children during the pandemic.
“I’m not here because I think it’s going to help my re-election,” Ellison said during the Dec. 11, 2021, meeting with two future criminal defendants linked to the Feeding our Future scandal, according to audio obtained by the Center for the American Experiment, a conservative Minnesota-based nonprofit.
Days later, on Dec. 20, 2021, Ellison received $10,000 in campaign contributions from individuals linked to Minneapolis nonprofit Feeding Our Future, records show.
The Justice Department has charged 70 people in the Feeding Our Future case, which has thus far yielded 44 convictions or guilty pleas. Several defendants have yet to stand trial.
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Sure why not ,LOL
Democrats: “We allow thievery from government, you kick back part of it to us and help fund our voter fraud, and the DOJ and courts we control won’t investigate you. Join the team!”
Nothing seems to stick to Ellison.
The slime coat is effective.
Wife beater.
Elli$on ALERT!
Ellison must be shivering in fear that he will be prosecuted. /sarc
On Dec. 20, 2021, Democrat Ellison received $10,000 in campaign contributions from Somalis linked to the $250 million Minneapolis nonprofit-——— Somali thieves connected to the “Feeding Our Future, fraud scheme.
Somali Democrat donors charged in Somali food fraud
By Anthony Gockowski -September 23, 2022, Minnesota we the people
pic-—Liban Yasin Alishire used money stolen from the federal Child Nutrition Programs to purchase resort in Kenya. Campaign finance records show the 42-year-old Somali donated $2,500 to campaign of Democrat AG Keith Ellison.
At least nine of the 48 Somalis accused of defrauding the government of $250 million meant to feed hungry children have donated to Democratic officeholders in Minnesota. The number is likely higher and Alpha News is working to confirm the identities of additional defendants.
Campaign finance records show 42-year-old Liban Yasin Alishire donated $2,500 in May of this year to the reelection campaign of Attorney General Keith Ellison. Alishire listed Hoodo Properties as his employer, which was a shell company he created to purchase luxury items and real estate with money he stole from the government, according to an indictment. “[A]s the list of those indicted in the federal fraud investigation into Feeding Our Future became public, we became aware of a donation to our campaign from one of the individuals charged. We immediately refunded the donation in full,” Ellison’s campaign said in a statement provided to Alpha News.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced charges against 48 Minnesotans Tuesday for allegedly defrauding the federal government’s Child Nutrition Programs of $250 million in a little over 20 months. “These [48] defendants engaged in a brazen scheme of staggering proportions,” U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said during a press conference announcing the charges.
At the center of the charges is Aimee Bock, the founder and executive director of Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit whose offices were raided in January. “Feeding Our Future” participated in the Summer Food Service Program and the Child and Adult Care Food Programs, both belonging to the US Dept of Agriculture’s Child Nutrition Programs.
These programs provide reimbursements for meals distributed to low-income children by food sites, like schools, nonprofits, restaurants, and more. Each food site must have a sponsor organization, in this case Feeding Our Future. The food sites submit reports on how many meals they are serving to the sponsor organization, which then submits the reports to the government for reimbursement.
In Minnesota, the federal reimbursements are wired to the sponsor organizations via the Department of Education, hence the recent criticism of this state agency. The sponsor organization then disburses the money among the food sites.
In some cases, the money flowed to the “fake meal sites” and then back to Somalis Feeding Our Future in the form of kickbacks, according to Luger. Somali Alishire was the president of an organization called Community Enhancement Services, located in the JigJiga Business Center in Minneapolis.
His company operated a food site under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future, falsely claiming to serve as many as 2,700 meals a day, seven days a week, according to an indictment. In total, Community Enhancement Services falsely claimed to have served more than 800,000 meals to low-income children between February and October 2021, the indictment says.
Liban Yasin Alishire, right, pictured with Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh, center and his Somali co-defendants received more than $1.6 million tax dollars in Child Nutrition Programs funds. He allegedly transferred this money to shell companies and used it to purchase property in Kenya, a truck, and a boat.
Alishire also paid more than $200,000 in kickbacks to a Feeding Our Future employee in exchange for Feeding Our Future’s sponsorship of his company’s “fraudulent participation” in the program, according to the indictment. Alishire operated a second fake food site with his co-defendants, which received $180,000 in reimbursements, the indictment says.
During his first court appearance Thursday, prosecutors said Alishire purchased a resort in Kenya using the stolen funds, KARE 11’s Lou Raguse reports. A judge ordered his release, despite concerns from the prosecution about him fleeing the country. At least three defendants have already left the country, according to Raguse.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh, and Minneapolis Council Member Jeremiah Ellison, the attorney general’s son, have all received donations from defendants in the case. Three of the defendants previously served in appointed positions in the Minneapolis city government. Omar, Fateh, and Frey have said in previous statements to the media that they’ve returned the donations. None of them replied to requests for comment.
Liban Yasin Alishire
Attorney General Keith Ellison: $2,500 (5/27/22)
Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir
Sen. Omar Fateh: $1,000 (6/6/21)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/27/21)
Minneapolis Council Member Jeremiah Ellison: $600 (12/20/21)
Asad Mohamed Abshir
Sen. Omar Fateh: $1,000 (6/6/21)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/27/21)
Abdihakim Ali Ahmed
Sen. Omar Fateh: $1,000 (6/6/2021)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/27/21)
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar: $2,700 (3/31/2021)
Ahmed Abdullahi Ghedi
Sen. Omar Fateh: $1,000 (6/6/21)
Minneapolis Council Member Jeremiah Ellison: $600 (12/20/21)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/27/21)
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar: $2,700 (2/23/21)
Salim Ahmed Said
Sen. Omar Fateh: $1,000 (6/6/21)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/27/21)
Minneapolis Council Member Jeremiah Ellison: $600 (12/20/21)
Abdulkadir Nur Salah
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/26/21)
Minneapolis Council Member Jeremiah Ellison: $600 (12/20/21)
Abdikadir Ainanshe Mohamud, previously served on Mayor Frey’s community safety working group
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/26/21)
Abdi Nur Salah, former aide to Mayor Frey
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/27/21)
Indeed.
This is news? Leftists operate like XCEL Spreadsheet formulas. You enter an amount in one column and it populates fifty more with derivatives, percentages, sums, and products, feeding the complete beast, right down to the news media executives that benefit by not reporting what you’re not supposed to hear or see.
Glad to see this story getting legs.
A normal day in the Peoples Republic of Minnesota comrades. When you come to Minnesota comrades please show your papers at the border while we check your vehicle for contraband.
Arrogant Somali Liban Yasin Alishire, right, and his Somali co-defendants stole $250 million tax dollars in federal Child Nutrition Programs funds. Alishire and the Somali thieves as Alishire allegedly transferred this money to shell companies.
Alishire also purchased a resort property (pictured) in Kenya, a truck, and a boat with stolen tax dollars.
Alishire paid other Somalis more than $200,000 in kickbacks and gave lefty Democrat Keith Ellison $2500 w/ stolen tax dollars.
Alishire (pictured above) and the organized Somali thieves colluded as Alishire allegedly transferred stolen tax dollars to shell companies. The stolen millions enriched Somalis.............and Democrat candidates.
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no.?
how about your efforts to shut down mike lindells drug recovery and rehabilitation organization ?
is THAT going to help your re-election ?
somehow i dont think you motivation is even on the same planet as admirable or altruistic.
Ilhan Omar Brags About Advancing a Somalia First Agenda in Congress
Feb 5, 2024, heritage.org
Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar got a $2,700 donation (2/23/21) from a Somali thief.
pic——U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks during a news conference on Nov 13, 2023 in Washington. Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images
Omar appears not just to put her Somali ethnicity first but...sees her job in Congress as representing the interests of the east African country and its government. “While I am in Congress, no one will take Somalia’s sea,” read a translation that she retweeted. Omar, who accuses Americans who support Israel’s right to exist of “divided loyalty,” seems to have forgotten her job is to look after American interests.
The U.S. granted Omar and her family refugee status from a Kenyan refugee camp in 1995 after they had fled the horrors of civil war in their native Somalia. In 2000, the U.S. granted her naturalization, and she took the oath to become an American citizen. Within less than two decades, she was elected to represent Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District.
As is our wont today, instead of commenting on her readiness for the job, let alone vetting her, the media lionized Omar as a woman of many firsts—the first woman of color to represent Minnesota, the first Somalian-American in Congress, and the first of two Muslims, among others. This is how America is constituted today. Because all of life is seen through the prism of an epic struggle between categories of the oppressed and their oppressors, diversity becomes a goal in itself. In fact, it is an a priori good, trumping considerations of merit, character, and ethics.
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Multiculturalism has become our society’s goal while extolling Americanness is frowned upon. Focusing on America’s interests is seen as passe, even for those elected to do exactly that.
It should hardly surprise us, then, that, according to comments that have seen the light of day this week, Omar appears not just to put her Somali ethnicity first but to think of herself as a Somali—that is, a citizen of Somalia—and sees her job in Congress as representing the interests of the east African country and its government.
Omar’s comments came in a speech she gave in Somali language to a crowd at a Minneapolis hotel, in which she criticized the fact that the breakaway Republic of Somaliland had negotiated a memorandum of understanding to give the landlocked nation of Ethiopia access to the sea in an area that Somalia claims. A version of the speech with English subtitles circulated online. It brought a heap of criticism to Omar, and she posted that the translation was “not only slanted but completely off.” Curiously, however, she only protested that Somalia rightfully owns the disputed area.
“No nation-state can survive if its states start to get involved in land lease negotiations with other countries without the consent of the federal government,” Omar wrote. That in no way, however, answered her critics, who didn’t appear to give a hoot about a territorial dispute in a part of the world most people have to look up on a map, as I did. No. What rankled were other parts of the speech, such as her telling the crowd that the U.S. government will do what Somalis tell it to do. “While I am in Congress, no one will take Somalia’s sea,” read a translation that she retweeted.
An online AI translation service rendered that passage as, “During my time in Congress, Somalia is not sharing its waters and seas with other nations.” It’s clear that Omar gave an irredentist, patriotic speech that, at times, clearly strayed into ethnic nationalism. But it wasn’t about America, the land that took her in, bestowed citizenship on her, and allowed her to achieve the American dream. Omar, one of the most woke members of Congress, would cringe at a speech like this if it were about America.
Indeed, all of the speech was blood and soil, only about Somalia, extolling the blood kinship of its people. In one of the online versions, she appears to bemoan that a substantial percentage of Somalia’s residents are not ethnic Somalis. “We are people of brotherhood, people of blood, people who know themselves to be Somalis, to be Muslims … We are a gifted set of individuals with a patriotic spirit that acknowledges our homeland and strives to protect it,” Omar said, according to a translator.
If I was an AG I would be suspicious of receiving 10k from a Feed the Children program. It’s an obvious kick back if not an outright bribe.
Paging Pam Bondi...
Pam bondi to the courtesy phone...
Pam Bondi?? where are you????
Someone call Fox News, shes probaby there.
Our election system sucks. As someone who has run for office, I do not vet nor do a background check on everyone who gives me money. I am sure this donor gave to alot of politicians. As long as our system is about who can get the most money this will happen to Democrats and Republicans.
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