Mahad Ibrahim pled guilty to two felony counts this morning at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Your correspondent was there. Ibrahim is facing years in federal prison and the…
Jay Kolls of KSTP-TV 5 has the scoop. In an interview that aired tonight (Tuesday), Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson tells KSTP: that when current investigations are prosecuted and finished,…
In a case captioned as Mohamed et. al. vs. Walz et. al., two former operators of childcare businesses located in Hennepin County have sued the state of Minnesota in federal…
Asad Mohamed Abshir became the 48th defendant convicted in the Feeding Our Future scandal late this Monday afternoon at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Your correspondent was there. Abshir,…
In May, a bipartisan effort to establish a new state watchdog agency to crack down on fraud in public programs passed the state Senate with broad bipartisan support. It would…
Federal District Judge Nancy Brasel is adamant that the next Feeding Our Future trial will begin on August 18. This trial has already been postponed twice, from April to August…
KSTP reports: Hundreds of autism centers popped up to meet demand in Minnesota. Now 85 are under investigation. KSTP reckons that works out to one of every five providers in…
We’re just digging into the 105 pages of federal search warrants being executed at nine separate locations in the metro area. The searches involve at least five (5) corporate entities…
KSTP has all the details on that $430,000 legal bill Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz racked up preparing for his testimony before Congress last month: Invoices reveal more about what Gov. Tim Walz’s…
Since 2024, Minnesota has consistently spent more than it brings in, with deficits projected through 2029. Expected federal funding cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) could punch a…
You read that correctly, we are now scheduling Feeding Our Future trials with mid-2026 start dates. The trial of the seven members of the Ikram Mohamed group of defendants (Nos.…
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…
To be clear: neither the Anika Foundation itself nor anyone associated with it have been accused of any wrongdoing. The occasion was the guilty plea hearing this morning for Ronnie…
The biggest Feeding Our Future-related events scheduled for July will occur on the 17th. We will see two defendants sentenced from the first trial that finished June 2024. Abdiaziz Farah,…
All of Minnesota’s businesses should be paying less sales tax. One of the few things we know with reasonable certainty about the new state budget is that data centers will…
American Experiment interviewed Edward Siedle, public pension warrior, for our podcast yesterday. The full 32-minute video of the interview: A former lawyer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),…
It took a third try, but Ahmed Ghedi. defendant No. 13 in the sprawling free-food scandal, entered the 40th guilty plea in the case to become the 47th person convicted.…
With the 2025 legislative session finally in the books, we humbly offer the final Capitol Watch of the season. They didn’t finish on time, but the legislature and Gov. Tim…
We have more courtroom trials stacked up in America’s largest free-food scandal, beginning in August. The August trial currently includes five defendants, Nos. 11-14 and No. 16. The first four…
From property to income tax On Wednesday, I asked: If you are not willing to forgo the goods and services property taxes pay for but want the property tax eliminated anyway, then…
Repeat after me: It’s a $300 million+ scandal. MPR News has been monitoring some of the other litigation spun off from the sprawling Feeding Our Future scandal. Partners in Nutrition,…
Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, now age 36, pled guilty to one count of attempted bribery of a juror at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis this morning. Your correspondent was there.…
The Owatonna People’s Press has an op-ed from Derek Delaney titled “Property taxes in Minnesota should end once a home is paid off.” I have long argued that Minnesotans are…
Ahmed Ghedi, Defendant No. 13 in the free-food scandal, was scheduled to become the 47th individual convicted in the fraud case, so far. He was present and on time at…