INVESTIGATION: MPS finance chief who signed contracts with questionable transportation companies placed on leave [MN]

Alpha News ^ | 1/11/26 | enna Gloeb and Liz Collin

[CFW]

Ibrahima Diop, the finance boss at Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), has been placed on administrative leave, Alpha News has learned.

Alpha News has reported extensively on Diop and questionable contracts with Frontier Transportation Services, hired by MPS to transport Homeless and Highly Mobile (HHM) students in passenger vans.

Additionally, another transportation company under contract with the district was filmed dropping off children at the now-closed Quality “Learing” Center — a moment many observers believe was staged to make the site appear active.

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An article from transportation consultant Rob Carpenter first raised questions about MEISA, noting its apparent connections to Abedelhalim Lawabni and Nohad Loabneh.

In 2020, two individuals with those same names were charged in Arizona with submitting $2.75 million in fake medical trip invoices through A&N Services. Prosecutors alleged more than 9,000 non-emergency medical transportation rides never occurred. Court records show the case was dismissed without prejudice in September 2020 at the request of prosecutors.

The indictment in that case says the two are brothers, reside in Fountain Hills, Ariz., and “are both listed as managers with a business address showing 8441 Wayzata Blvd, Suite 125, Golden Valley, Minnesota, 55426.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: corruption; fraud; mn; somalian

[CFW]

Somalian fraud and corruption has infested every segment of Minneapolis, Minnesota governing entities. They are often caught, given a slap on the wrist, and then just repeat the same fraud through another agency. All involved should have been arrested/jailed/deported long ago.

[shelterguy]

The Smellians are untouchable here.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””Ibrahima Diop, the finance boss at Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), has been placed on administrative leave, Alpha News has learned.”””

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And here I thought that Minnesota was totally inhabited by Scandinavians and most of the men were named Ole Olson.

Maybe Ibrahima Diop is really a Scandinavian who changed his name so not to be confused with the other Ole Olsons.

[Parley Baer]

The Somalis have really infiltrated the system in Minnesota.

[thescourged1]

Placed on leave in the nearest landfill wrapped in a rug to keep warm?

[Elsie]

Time for a reprise of “FARGO”

[madison10]

THEY ARE the system in Minnesota.