Posted on 07/29/2025 7:50:49 AM PDT by Twotone
Omar Fateh, the Somalian American democratic socialist running for mayor of Minneapolis, once went to bat for the fraudsters behind a $250 million scam that involved stealing from a government child nutrition program during the COVID pandemic.
Later, when the infamous Feeding Our Future scam in Minnesota was exposed, Fateh returned $11,000 in campaign donations that he received from donors tied to the scam.
Fateh is now running for Minneapolis mayor, and earlier this month, he rocketed to the top of the race when the city’s local Democratic Party endorsed him.
Feeding Our Future was a key player in the massive fraud scheme — the nonprofit distributed federal money meant for low-income children to groups running fake meal distribution sites, who, in turn, gave Feeding Our Future kickbacks, prosecutors said.
Fateh fought for Feeding Our Future when Minnesota moved to pause the group’s funding, saying it didn’t keep records properly.
In June 2021, Fateh attended an event with Feeding Our Future celebrating the group’s legal victory over the state on the funding freeze.
“I want to thank also Aimee and her team, Feeding Our Future for making this first court victory a reality,” Fateh said at the event.
Aimee Bock, the ringleader of the fraud scheme, was found guilty earlier this year on all charges related to the scam, including wire fraud, conspiracy, and bribery.
Fateh also said at the event that he had met with state officials and confronted them about the funding.
“In that meeting, we were asking what was going on, and we asked very directly, was there any evidence of fraud? Was there any concerns or suspicions?” Fateh told the audience. “And they told us that there was zero evidence. Nothing was there. So to us, that was immoral, what was going on.”
A staffer from Rep. Ilhan Omar’s office also spoke at that event and said that Feeding Our Future “sticks to the truth, and the truth wins.”
At one point, Fateh was also photographed with one of the scammers, Liban Yasin Alishire.
Alishire operated a fake food site that falsely claimed to serve 800,000 meals to low-income children between February and October 2021, according to the indictment against him. He also created a shell company that he used to buy a luxury resort in Kenya with the stolen taxpayer dollars.
Alishire ultimately pled guilty to fraud, with prosecutors saying he pocketed $712,084 in stolen taxpayer dollars.
The next year, Fateh condemned the fraud.
“In 2021, I supported the USDA programs that were allegedly stolen from,” Fateh said in a statement in 2022. “Providing free nutritious meals to kids in urban food deserts is something the state is morally obligated to do. Getting rich by exploiting those same children and using them as cover is the opposite of what I stand for, what the people elected me for.”
Fateh also returned $11,000 in campaign donations, a total of 11 donations, seven of which came from people specifically named in search warrants related to the scam. The donations were made in the summer of 2021 when the scam was in full swing.
Fateh has radical goals for Minneapolis, including making it the “last line of defense” against Donald Trump and a “safe haven” for transgender surgeries.
The state senator, 35, is running on an uber-progressive platform that includes cracking down on the police, getting “economic justice” for LGBT and minorities, and keeping Minneapolis a sanctuary for not just illegal migrants, but also for abortions and transgender drugs and surgeries, all while spending lots of taxpayer dollars.
Al Fateh.
Pirates will pirate.
These scumbag leftists see it as their duty to steal as much from Americans as possible. They don’t give a single crap about this nation. None.
Fraudsters are just undocumented socialists.
That’s what you will get from a foreign national especially from Somali. Several years age the International Red Cross refused to go into Somalia due to safety reasons.
You mean Somali trash don’t give up their turd world stone age tribal ways once placed on our magical soil? There is absolutely NOTHING made better importing those people. Not one thing. It is not our responsibility to provide for their “better life.” Denaturalize them and deport them all.
Doesn’t even align his values with Muslim values (such as they are). Since when do they support gays? I would think they wouldn’t vote for that.
The average IQ in somalia is 68, this guy brings it down.
Thank the Democrats,the Chamber of Comerce,and the Church(es).
The greedy white businessmen of colonial America wanted cheap labor and too many of todays business owners are the same.
And both are responsible for importing hordes of people.
Seems like the best thing for Fateh as far as the U.S. is concerned is a free ticket back to his home country. Maybe socialism is better appreciated there.
If Minneapolitans elect him, they deserve him.
Omar Fateh, just another Somali gang member doing what Somali gang members do.
Omar Fateh passed the lie cheat and steal test.
Democratic Party endorsed him.
She's the one who married her brother.
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