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Kash Patel Arrests 70 Blue State Fraudsters Who Stole $250 Million in Aid “From Hungry Kids” [MN]
American Tribune ^ | July 23, 2025 | Will Tanner

Posted on 07/23/2025 9:55:04 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Organic Panic

Exactly The Deep State’s intention.


41 posted on 07/23/2025 11:11:49 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: j.havenfarm

I don’t have to watch Matt Walsh to know the skinnies have taken over Minneapolistan. I live here. We all know it is happening.

Here is the Mayor of Minneapolistan dancing with them and waving THEIR flag.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvZ4BijPY00


42 posted on 07/23/2025 11:15:38 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: All
Arrests made in the $250 million Somali food fraud.


43 posted on 07/23/2025 11:19:46 AM PDT by Liz (')
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To: DiogenesLamp

“I’ve seen comments from other people online who claim the Somalis are the shittiest people on the planet, and have no redeeming qualities.”

Somalis are the worst possible dysfunctional immigrants, being they are Muslims and super stupid. They are inclined towards evil and uselessness. So of course they are ideal immigrants for the Democrats and the Lutheran Church that ships them (as refugees) in here.

Other nations cursed with them are Canada, UK, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Germany.


44 posted on 07/23/2025 11:20:20 AM PDT by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity)
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To: Red Badger

Only a government this big and this incompetent can have this much fraud and waste and abuse


45 posted on 07/23/2025 11:21:59 AM PDT by Mr. K (no i think 10%consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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Arrests made in the $250 million Somali food fraud.


46 posted on 07/23/2025 11:23:05 AM PDT by Liz (')
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To: dennisw

If you go to the Somalia you’ll discover must of the day they are spaced out from chewing Qat. Qat is a mild Marijuana type of drug in its effect. They chew it constantly.


47 posted on 07/23/2025 11:23:40 AM PDT by Reily
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To: chopperk

Maybe many are Somalian and close relatives to Omar.

Maybe all of them are Somalian


48 posted on 07/23/2025 11:30:15 AM PDT by butlerweave
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By Anthony Gockowski -September 23, 2022, Minnesota we the people

Somali Liban Yasin Alishire used money stolen from the federal Child Nutrition Programs to purchase this resort in Kenya. At least nine of the 48 people 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. Campaign finance record showing Alishire’s donation to 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 U.S. Department 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 Feeding Our Future in the form of kickbacks, according to Luger. 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.

pic——Liban Yasin Alishire, right, pictured with Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh, center.
He and his co-defendants received more than $1.6 million 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)


49 posted on 07/23/2025 11:31:49 AM PDT by Liz (')
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$250 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
FR Posted on 2/9/2022, 6:16:30 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.

The contact page is decorated with a photo of a woman in a hijab chowing down on a burger.

The pandemic destroyed lives, hundreds of thousands died, millions lost their businesses and jobs, but a great river of government money flowed to those who knew how to play the game.

As The Counter notes, “In the early months of the pandemic, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) acted quickly to loosen rules governing how child nutrition programs had to operate. Gone were the strict nutrition guidelines, the group dining requirements, and the in-person inspections. Instead, the agency focused on cutting red tape as part of a broad effort to keep snacks and meals accessible to hungry families while mitigating the spread of Covid-19.”

In 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed $3.4 million in taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020, that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021. These were impressive numbers for a charity that seemed to focus on Somalis in Minnesota.

While there may be some hungry Somali Muslim kids in the Gopher State, $197 million would buy them all meals at five-star steakhouses before jetting them away from the snow to Vegas. According to a lawyer for Aimee Bock, FOF’s founder, who isn’t Somali, but whose lawyer previously represented a Somali ISIS recruit, “all Ms. Bock did was feed children.”

When over 200 FBI agents converged on the offices of various non-profits, their search warrants claimed that the Somali aid groups received “tens of millions of dollars” but that “almost none of this money was used to feed children.” The FOF’s Minneapolis offices were near the Somali Abu Huraira mosque and not far from a multitude of Somali community organizations.

Some of the money allegedly went to Bock and her boyfriend, Empress Malcolm Watson Jr., apparently a bail bondsman tracking wanted fugitives, who had previously been arrested for domestic violence, and whose construction company received $600,000 from her non-profit. The only client listed on its site has the first name, “Aimee”.

Bill Glahn, a reporter for American Experiment who has been investigating the case, noted that Empress Malcolm Watson, Jr. “has an impressively long list of encounters with local law enforcement. 4 felony convictions, one for theft by swindle and one for domestic assault” which is even bigger than the rap sheet of his revered father, Empress Malcolm Watson, Sr.

From there it gets quite complicated.

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50 posted on 07/23/2025 11:32:50 AM PDT by Liz (')
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To: ASOC
Call me when someone/anyone actually goes to jail.

A couple days ago it was, "Nothing will happen".

Then it was, "Call me when someone is arrested".

Now it's, "Call me when someone is jailed".

I think people are losing sight of the fact Trump has only been president barely 6 months. Considering everything he has done, trade, borders, ending Iran nukes, saving hundreds of billions in government fraud, eliminating massive bloated departments/programs, etc....He's Trump, not Superman.

Name another Republican president in modern American history who has exposed such historic government crimes and corruption, and done anything like this in such a short amount of time?

Take your time.

51 posted on 07/23/2025 11:33:26 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dennisw

Kenyans hate them! View them as lower then cow dung. Somalia illegals are all over Kenya and are viewed as a criminal class there almost to man or woman.


52 posted on 07/23/2025 11:35:47 AM PDT by Reily
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That giant sucking sound you hear........

Fraud facilitator and Somali Muslims.
Aimee Bock in red head covering above is now in jail.

53 posted on 07/23/2025 11:37:19 AM PDT by Liz (')
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To: ASOC
Call me when someone/anyone actually goes to jail.

Forget jail. Send them back to Somalia if that's where they came from.
54 posted on 07/23/2025 11:37:31 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: dennisw

Kenyans hate them! View them as lower then cow dung. Somalia illegals are all over Kenya and are viewed as a criminal class there almost to man or woman.


55 posted on 07/23/2025 11:38:20 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Red Badger

Maybe Kash should ask Newscum where the 100 million raised from benefit concerts for the Palisades fire victims went?


56 posted on 07/23/2025 11:40:08 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: dadgum

Prison?

Strip them of their assets, then deports their azzes back to the intellectual and moral hub of Africa - Somalia.

I’d like to employ some really vile and xenophobic prose at the moment, but I will restrain myself.

Oh, and toss that hag Ilhan Omar out, too.


57 posted on 07/23/2025 11:41:03 AM PDT by dadgum (Fight to WIN or do not fight at At all)
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To: ASOC

Calling ASOC....several of them are already in jail.


58 posted on 07/23/2025 11:41:43 AM PDT by Fireone (1.Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: jjotto

For the record, here are some of the names of the perps as listed in your article:

Bekam Merdassa
Hadith Yusuf Ahmed
Hanna Marekegn
Abdul Abubakar Ali
Anab Awad
Liban Yasin Alishire
Mulata Ali
Mohamed Ali Hussein
Lul Bashir Ali
Abdulkadir Awale
Qamar Hassan
Abdikadir Kadiye
And the list goes on and on...

Why do we put up with this crap?


59 posted on 07/23/2025 11:42:31 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: shelterguy

Tampon Timmy’s people.


60 posted on 07/23/2025 11:46:01 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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