With 76 defendants, and counting, the wheels of justice continue to grind on in the Feeding Our Future scandal. A preview of November: November 5: Defendant No. 38, Khadar Adan,…
Anwar Ahmed Adow, age 25, became the first defendant to plead guilty in the Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) fraud case. He appeared yesterday in federal court in downtown St. Paul…
Former Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson sat down with KSTP-5 for another interview, this time as part of their What the Fraud? series. A four-minute excerpt: Thompson again emphasizes that…
Alpha News reports: EXCLUSIVE: Alpha News rides along with ICE, captures arrest of former state employee on camera. Reporter Liz Collin witnessed the arrest firsthand. She reports: The first stop…
Ahmednaji Maalim Aftin Sheikh, 28, a citizen and resident of Kenya, was indicted today in federal court on an international money laundering charge. Sheikh becomes Defendant No. 74 in the…
Alpha News reports: Minnesota DHS takes a step to improve background checks. It’s about time. The requirement will also apply to contractors, interns, volunteers, and existing employees with Criminal Justice…
On Wednesday, Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, now aged 36, received a sentence of 28 years in federal prison from U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel. He was convicted on 23 felony counts…
A key figure in the free-food scandal will be up for sentencing next week, Thursday, July 17. Abdiaziz Shafii Farah was convicted on 23 counts (acquitted on 1) in the…
How not to kill off a media story. The saga of former state bureaucrat, Wilson Tindi, has been extended for another week, with a fresh round of media reports. From…
As the Wilson Tindi scandal unfolds, it seems that this convicted-felon, senior bureaucrat may not have undergone any background checks. Tindi is that convicted felon, registered sex offender, illegal alien…
The deeper you dig into the backstory of the convicted sex felon turned senior state bureaucrat, the weirder it gets. [Update below!] In a well-written Exclusive Report, Alpha News brings…
So much is going on with the Feeding Our Future case in the next two weeks that I had to create a calendar to keep up. Up next in the…
Defendant No. 71, Hibo Daar, was formally arraigned in Federal Court this morning in downtown Minneapolis. She entered a plea of not guilty. Your correspondent was there. Except where specifically…
Do you know where your tax dollars are? It’s a sorry state of affairs when Minnesota — long the gold standard of forthright Midwest values and decency — is now…
The second Feeding Our Future trial resumed this morning at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Your correspondent was there. Salim Said, co-owner of the Safari Restaurant of south Minneapolis,…
Your correspondent was there for Day 4 of the trial testimony of Aimee Bock, the founder and CEO of the free-food nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Bock is on trial in…
Today at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, two guilty pleas were entered (separately) in the sprawling free-food scandal. First up this morning was Ayan Jama, Defendant No. 40, who…
Today, at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, the 27th guilty plea was entered in the Feeding Our Future case. Sharmake Jama, Defendant No. 39, became conviction No. 32 in…
It’s been relatively quiet in the Feeding Our Future case the past few weeks. That will change after the holidays, as trial dates are stacked up throughout 2025. First up…
A second sentencing hearing has been set for this month in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud case. Mohamed Jama Ismail is due in court on October 15 to learn…
Drilling down into local politics, we find an interesting story in the south Metro, illustrating a number of trends in state politics. The seven members of the Dakota County Board…
Deena Winter of MN Reformer names five names in a report today linking Feeding Our Future defendants with state-funded autism clinics. She reports: Five of the 70 defendants in the…
After a series of hearings this morning at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, the three brothers appeared in sequence before Magistrate Judge Tony Leung. All three are pleading not…
As we close out another week of the trial in Minneapolis, prosecutors have featured many of the (alleged) ill-gotten gains of the free-food scheme. A survey of recent headlines: ‘The…