There are some frauds so massively insane that Americans won’t do them. Someone has to.
I covered this story back in the winter, relying on the important work of local reporters like Bill Glahn at the American Experiment. The story is mind-blowing for the sheer scale of the fraud.
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.
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.
And I really mean impressive.
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.
There’s an Ilhan Omar angle and a Mecca angle.
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.”
Now the official federal indictments of 47 people are in: 46 of them Somalis.
The Department of Justice announced today federal criminal charges against 47 defendants for their alleged roles in a $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A key element in the fraud was crying racism. Some politicians came forward to back them up. And there are questions as to what extent politicians, especially those catering to Somalis, helped enable it.
The accused Somalis donated to a variety of politicians, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, State Senator Omar Fateh, Shukri Olow, running for state representative, State Rep. Hodan Hassan, a Keith Ellison crony, and others.
Rep. Ilhan Omar has made government meals for children into one of her signature issues.
Wellington says
Another example of parasitic Muslims feeding upon a non-Muslim host. Has been this way since the 7th century.
I of course am disgusted by such parasitic Muslim behavior, but I am more disgusted by so many non-Muslims in the West who continue to make excuses for a belief system which has been bogus, destructive, violent and putrid since its inception some 1400 years ago.
Muslims are a problem no doubt. But non-Muslims shilling for Islam is a greater problem—no doubt.
CogitoErgoSum says
Crooked people will elect crooked politicians and the crooked politicians will do crooked things to keep being elected by crooked people. This is how democracy works and it is why democracy is not any good if the people have no morals. When the people have no morals democracy is a curse.
Wellington says
Agreed, CES. Democracy, like capitalism, will descend into sham versions of itself without a proper moral code. Without enlightened moral intelligence (N.B., Islam’s moral code is not even remotely a contender here) every aspect of life, both public and private, will become debased.
CogitoErgoSum says
Even though the U.S. is not technically a Christian nation, that is to say, it does not have Christianity as its official religion, its basic founding principles were of Christian origin. There was a belief in a Creator who gave men the power to rule themselves under laws that should be applied equally to all. As we get farther away from that belief our nation will begin to crumble. We are seeing it happen now as the rock that once formed the base of the United States begins to turn to sand.
mick says
Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Leicester, London….
Only to be used in monoculture.
GreekEmpress says
Not surprising. They’ve been running day care scams for years.
GreekEmpress says
https://www.fox9.com/news/millions-of-dollars-in-suitcases-fly-out-of-msp-but-why.amp
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, GreekEmpress.
milo minderbinder says
No surprise here… if there were “any“ surprises, they would be:
There wasn’t any fraud, none, nada.
That… what fraud there was, would be chump change
And most important… where in the world did the DOIJ, (Dept of Injustice) and the FBI (Fumbling Bumbling Idiots) find the manpower and, the time for this investigation?
How many people did they have to remove from:
Investigating Donald Trump and his supporters
Raiding their home and/or arresting them while traveling
Tracking Trump supporters, like Mike Lindell, surrounding his vehicle in a fast-food parking lot so they could confiscate his phone
Investigating parents who had the audacity to go to school board meetings, who spoke out in defense of their children
Investigating anyone, who questioned the results of the 2020 Presidential election
And, on and on, it goes.
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Nancy says
The world is now upside down.
milo minderbinder says
Nancy says
Sep 24, 2022 at 10:54 am
The world is now upside down.
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Thank you for your reply. I agree, the world is turned upside down.
A thought that Melanie Phillips clearly demonstrates in her book, “The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power.”
somehistory says
I read this by Mr. Greenfield a couple of days ago. And today, on the *news feed,* some guy from that state is complaining, saying there is no “food fraud,” or something like that.
Yes, when it comes to crime, someone has to commit it; so it may as well be these best buds of i. elmi and they go for it bigtime. Probably the same ones who voted her into office…with those ballots they couldn’t even read. A big “harvest” for her and them, too.
gravenimage says
46 Somalis Charged in $250 Million COVID Fraud
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Great to see coverage of this ugly story by Daniel Greenfield.
Stealing from the Infidels is standard Islamic behavior from the days of the “Prophet”–as is using any infidel values against them–in this case, concern for hungry children and respect for other cultures.
More:
Safari Restaurant, which boasts “traditional Somali cuisine” like french fries and safari chicken quesadilla
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Also pasta marinara and Alaskan salmon…
Now this would be fine–no restaurant has to have a purist ethnic menu. But that the whole selling point here is that Somali children can only get “culturally relevant foods” here makes this pretty damned questionable.
ten03@optonline.net says
I don’t recall the bought and paid for media whores ever mentioning who these people were. All a bunch of maggots feeding on the rotting corpse of a once free democracy.
Hank says
Time to repatriate back to Islamic Somalia.
gravenimage says
+1