Rep. Ilhan Omar’s favorite restaurant claimed to be feeding 6,000 kids a day.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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.
Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, a Feeding Our Future employee, according to the FBI documents, controlled multiple target premises, opened over 20 bank accounts in the name of his various entities, and “solicited and received kickbacks” from the groups receiving child nutrition cash.
According to Feeding Our Future, the organization’s “extensive knowledge of the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program” helped “child and adult care programs maximize their reimbursement”. These were the groups on whose behalf it acted as a sponsor.
Feeding Our Future was getting a 10% administrative fee off the top. But that wasn’t enough.
Safari Restaurant, which boasts “traditional Somali cuisine” like french fries and safari chicken quesadilla, where Rep. Ilhan Omar had celebrated her victory party, applied to participate in the Federal Child Nutrition program.
When the money was denied, Feeding Our Future complained that “minority-owned businesses serving almost exclusively economically disadvantaged children of color” were being denied the right to serve “culturally relevant foods” to “youth” during a “national emergency”.
Crying racism worked and at its peak Safari claimed to be feeding 6,000 children a day. That’s a lot of children. Documents note that the Somali eatery claimed to be serving a comparable number of meals to “the entire St. Paul public school district.”
Safari was just one of the many providers who claimed to be feeding thousands of children.
Glahn in American Experiment found that, “Feeding Our Future had 312 authorized sites for the program, approved for a maximum of 126,000 children.” That’s a lot of hungry Somali kids.
Oliver Twist, eat your heart out.
He also noted that, “Five of the sites are religious centers.”
The Feds staked out various Feeding Our Future meal sites and found no one at the places that were supposed to be feeding 50,000 children. According to the FBI, the money being stolen wasn’t used to feed children, it went into various shell companies and fronts operated by Somalis and was used to buy everything from a Porsche to African properties.
According to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, S&S Catering led by Qamar Ahmed Hassan received $13.8 million in federal funds. The FBI warrants note that, “Qamar Ahmed Hassan wrote approximately $27,000 in checks from S&S Catering bank accounts… to Amax Travel, a travel agency that specializes in Haji travel packages.”
Haji is the Islamic obligation for every Muslim to visit their holy city of Mecca.
Amax offers trips to the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina, that non-Muslims are banned from entering, five-star hotels, and tours led by Imams.
One of the non-profits associated with FOF, Stigma-Free International, was incorporated by Minneapolis City Council Member Jamal Osman. The Somali politician is a political ally of Rep. Ilhan Omar and has been photographed with her. He had previously been featured in a Project Veritas undercover investigation which appeared to show his brother “rifling through piles of ballots strewn across his dashboard” and declaring, “just today we got 300 for Jamal Osman.”
The man in question had also allegedly worked on Omar’s political campaign.
The scale and scope of the alleged fraud is as vast as the network that perpetrated it. The FBI warrants list numerous people, the vast majority of them Somali Muslims, a dizzying variety of non-profits that received the money, and a wide variety of destinations for the cash. The fraud was lubricated by false accusations of racism and discrimination by FOF and its recepients.
During the initial controversy, a video in support of Feeding Our Future at the Safari resteurant featured numerous local politicians, including Senator Omar Fateh, the first Somali Muslim in the state senate, who had been backed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
A Deputy District Director for Rep. Ilhan Omar gave what was described as an “impassioned speech” declaring, “This community is tired. It’s tired of the bulls—”
But it’s Americans who have every right to be tried.
Open borders migration is not feeding our future. It’s stealing our future away.
PRCS says
“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.”
People like Ilhan Omar, and–as the article notes–a raft of others.
Bottom line–the money’s been spent and isn’t going to be repaid.
I wonder if this has happened to Maine’s Somali community.
mortimer says
And I wonder how the investigation on Ilhan Omar’s ELECTION FRAUD is going. A Somali undercover cop has been gathering info about her bribing people to vote for her.
gravenimage says
$200 Million in Somali Welfare Fraud Paid for Trips to Mecca
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This is enormously common with Muslim “charities”–the money goes to line pockets, pay for Da’wa and trips to Mecca, or–worst of all–to fund Jihad terror. Using Infidel money for this is perfectly Halal, as well.
Clearly this was not a general charity devoted to feeding children in Minnesota.
One good thing–the Minnesota departrment of education is severing contact with this fraudsters. Hope they are prosecuted.
mortimer says
Why hasn’t this fraudster been arrested for marrying her brother and filing income tax with him as spouses?
VICTOR COWEN says
Simple really.
The America I knew and loved and visited many many times (no longer) Is TOTALLY FINISHED.
The Russians/Chinese will come and take it over one day hopefully not in my lifetime.
The whole world is well overdue for another war which will solve most problems (and create others) but that’s evolution for yer….
john smith says
Nothing would make me happier than to see this hardcore jihadi criminal (Ilhan Omar) locked up and eventually deported. Her loyalties don’t lie with the country that has done so much for her, they lie with those who intend to destroy us. She’s a criminal, she’s a jihadi, and she is the enemy within.
Alfredo says
It’s so sad to see the usually smart Americans being taken for a ride by crooked foreigners who deep down hate the very country that opens its doors whole heartedly to them.
It is the willful ignorance resulting from the persistent belief in the lies told by professional liars who know very well how to pull the heart strings of their intended targets.
They don’t know or don’t want to know that the con artists march to a very different drum. The beat of that drum goes very far in time indeed. That beat screams “smile at the infidel with hatred in your hearts.”
OLD GUY says
Our government leaders have a fiduciary responsibility when spending OUR tax dollars. Sounds to me like the Agencies involved in distributing this money failed to do due diligence and should be charged with failing to do their legal duty in protecting the misuse and theft of public funds.
This is as bad as it gets when it comes to abuse of American TAX DOLLARS. Our political and government agencies are corrupt and basically free from investigation and prosecution for these crimes. And the media is worried about a guy who walks out of Walmart, shop lifting $50 bucks worth of meat, while these agencies steal and give away millions. Not saying the Walmart shoplifter shouldn’t be arrested, he or she should be. But let’s stop letting these politicians and government agencies get away with defrauding the American TAX PAYER, you and me.
rbla says
Where is the bigmouth Omar and her colleague Tlaib when it comes to the Chicom genocide against their fellow Muslims in Sinkiang?
David Foot says
In Sharia the faithful are entitled to the property of the unfaithful enemies of Islam and to the lives of the unfaithful and to enslave them.
The unfaithful must pay the faithful tax where Sharia is observed.
gravenimage says
So true, David.
Walter Sieruk says
About that Muslim politician, Ilhan Omar, after her election to Congress she was thus given a seat on the House of Foreign Affairs Committee where she has much scheming influence to promote her Un-American, politics and policies, specifically Sharia law, upon America.
Omar with her foreign Islamic agenda she desires to impose on America which are in strong contrast to American ideas, values, politic and polices are a matter of concern. Omar with her favoring Sharia law.
Now she has the gall to actually want to replace the July 4th celebration with a Muslim heritage month, that outrageous as well as absurd. Omar that that awful and outlandish goal have completely proven how totally un-American and subversive she actually is.
Walter Sieruk says
That Muslim politician, Ilan Omar is so very anti-Jewish and so spitefully against the Jewish State of Israel that she is in totally in essences un-American as the late US President, William Howard Taft, wisely, declared in a speech that “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out it has no place in America”
Related to this is a grand statement in a speech former President Theodore Roosevelt, rightly, declared, “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
In addition, Omar is so terrible and such a danger to US Homeland Security that even an American imam had described Omar as “ISIS with lipstick.” [1]
[1] THUMP CARD by Dinesh D’ Souza
LA79 says
If only more Americans & all ppl would take the time to read the Islamic Sources (Quran, hadiths, tafsirs)… through those it’s blatantly obvious to see the promotion of hatred, violence & deceit towards “infidels” (namely: the ppl of The Book-Jews & Christians). They are allowed to LIE under oath in order to protect themselves or promote-spread Islam. So they can LIE about their pledge of allegiance to America- it’s called “tacquia” (spell?). When they are in a minority or weaker economic-military position they can use deceit. They can also use immigration as a form of jihad & to spread Islam. Ppl must understand that Islam is NOT in any way an Abrahamic Religion. They claim Ishmael was a prophet & somehow related to Muhammad? How can Ishmael be Arabic (born of Hagar- Egyptian mother & Abraham from assyria area)??? Ex: German mother & Chinese father give birth to a Spaniard??? Seriously? There’s even Islamic sources which state Ishmael was taught Arabic language at age 13.how could he be the father of the Arabs if he was taught arabic language which Already existed?
Quran 29:27… “we bestowed on him Isaac and Jacob and we established the prophethood and the Scripture among his seed, and we gave him his tears in the wild and lo! In the hereafter he verily is among the righteous.”
Ishmael ???- he wasn’t a MIRACLE like Isaac was- Bc Sarah was OLD & couldn’t have children but God made her conceive from Abraham.
Ishmael was NOT the miracle son & the prophethood clearly comes via ISRAEL (aka children of Jacob).
Quran 45:16….”And indeed, we gave the book and the wisdom and the prophethood to the children of Israel, and we provided them with good things. And we favored them above the worlds. “
PROPHETS ONLY COME FROM CHILDREN OF ISRAEL = JACOB Islamic sources claim Abraham & Ishmael built the Kaaba in Mecca ? What? They built a cube structure & somehow the monotheistic msg was lost & it turned to a pagan shrine for thousands of years. Muhammad then started initially praying to Jerusalem & then later on he switched to the kabba. How does that line up? Ppl who try to face kaaba/Mecca when praying from America or from anywhere outside of vicinity region fo Mecca are kidding themselves- it’s impossible! If you kneel to pray & face “towards Mecca” you would be facing pointing towards OUTER-SPACE! It only works if there’s a FLAT earth! & to top it all off there are Islamic hadiths which clearly cite Muhammad saying the “touching the black stone erases sins” …if that’s not paganism I don’t know what to think!!!! The Quran translations into English are misleading & blatant lies so-having an Arabic speaking person to help translate helps. definition of Islam in Arabic is TO SURRENDER- you only surrender when under threat -not in peace. In fact the letter “I- before ”slam” is the OPPOSITE of Peace…it’s like English prefix in front of a word making it the opposite meaning— ex…irrelevant vs relevant…this is what ISLAM means to surrender to the belief in allah & his prophet-a Muslim has to believe I& follow without any resistance all commands. Christians & Jews for 1400 yrs have been killed, enslaved, humiliated, oppressed by this dominating CULT. IT’s a cult… bc Muhammad had numerous privileges: marrying more than 4 wives, getting the BEST of war booty & 20% of war booty for HIMSELF! further Islamic sources & Quran cite that a man must divorce his wife immediately if “prophet’s” eyes fall upon his wife -ie Muhammad liked her!!!!! Additionally, any “believing” woman who wanted to offer herself to the prophet of allah (for sex) she could do so …without any marriage contract or dowry etc. it qualifies as a cult! It’s so obvious that Islamic paradise /heaven is clearly a temptation for men of 7th century Arabia…the lowest/min heaven level a man will receive “2 houris” (paradise females w large or desirable front passages …it’s a Quran verse). & then 70 will be from the “inheritance of females from hellfire”). & they will recline on couches & have Persian silk shirts& gold bracelets. It’s obvious this would’ve been attractive offer to deem about as a 7th century Bedouin. Allah is a fictional god whom Muhammad made up & who supposedly gave an eternal Quran yet the Quran has countless contradictions, blatant errors & FULLY disagrees w the MORAL, ethical & theological concepts of The Bible. Islam is a major threat to ALL people -esp ppl who value freedom, value their choice to believe in their faith & respect males & females as creatures made in the image of God. The Quran -over & over like a beating drum states to “fight those who do not believe in allah or his messenger” it’s FIGHT W VIOLENCE. + to Smite them at their necks. it calls Muslims the BESt Of creation & Jews -Christians as the WORST Of creatures (often Islamic sources use pigs & monkeys as meaning Jews Christians & as being dirty-filthy.
All truth loving people MUST read about Islam & DO NOT trust the twisted mainstream narrative Islam -it’s the exact opposite of what they present. I pray fervently for more Muslims to come out of Islam & seek TRUTH! The Lord Jesus Christ is that very Truth & ONLY saviour -even in the Quran “Isa” is called the Holy son. Isa (Islamic Jesus) is also called the “word of allah & spirit proceeding from allah.” Isa had MANY miracles in the Quran – raising ppl from dead, curing leprosy, knowing the unseen-what ppl had in houses, making the blind see & the Quran even states a sorry about Isa (Jesus) breathing into a clay bird he fashioned & making it alive (per the “leave” of allah supposedly) …but if that’s true then allah shared his ability of CREATION W/ another?! allah/Muhammad fails in proving Isa is “merely a prophet”. The Quran even makes this outrageous claim 600 yrs after Biblical Jesus….quran verse states “the Jews claim they killed the messiah” but they killed him not but it was made to appear to them”. -supposedly allah took Isa up to himself in heaven & someone who Looked exactly like Isa was substituted on the cross & crucified in his place. So …it was allah who started Christianity but in the Islamic view it was thru the use of DECEPTION!!!!! Pure insanity! Even atheists & secular historians agree about the FACT of Jesus If Nazareth dying by crucifixion under the rule of pontius Pilate.
—SORRY FOR My LONG COMMENT!!!
But it’s important to know the threat Islam presents to everyone.the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful ppl bc they DO NOT follow Islam & don’t read the Quran/sources in their native languages. For 14centuries Islam has been shielded from criticism- now is the time for the TRUTH to prevail & use the internet for GOOD!!! GOD bless Robert Spencer & all of you w Jihad watch! Your work is valued!