In a scene out of a Hollywood movie, an unmarked package arrived at the offices of Center of the American Experiment without a return address and a St. Paul postmark.…
U.S. Attorney Andy Luger has recorded the 4th guilty plea entered in the sprawling Feeding Our Future free-food fraud case. Defendant No. 29 (out of 50 total), Abdul Ali, entered…
Yesterday, the Tax Foundation published its latest Business Tax Climate Index, a report that gauges how tax systems compare among states. Minnesota is yet again at the bottom of that…
Back in 2019, Attorney General Keith Ellison tweeted: The idea of a “pink tax” rests on the idea that women are charged more for the same good or service than…
Something scary to think about this Halloween: according to data provided by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the national debt has surpassed $31 trillion this month. Divided by the…
The latest person charged is the husband of No. 48. The always alert Lou Raguse of KARE 11 reported this afternoon that Abduljabar Hussein was charged in the Feeding Our…
According to the US Department of Labor’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), about $46 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits might have been paid to fraudsters. Initially, the OIG estimated…
Allegedly, a Feeding Our Future defendant double-dipped with a Medicaid fraud. Somehow, I missed this MPR News article when it came out last month. I’ve frequently speculated on the possible…
According to the Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB), Minnesota’s net general fund receipts for the first quarter of FY 2023 are now estimated to total $7.024 billion, $289 million (4.3…
I’m often asked the question, “How much more is there to the free-food scandal in Minnesota”? I’m tempted to quote Churchill’s line, we’re at “the end of the beginning.” In…
There have been 49 people (and counting) charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud. Of those, twelve were associated with Safari Restaurant of Minneapolis, including all three co-owners. Combing through…
A born-again Republican? His name is included in the third indictment issued in this case, as part of the S&S Catering network of Minneapolis. This network has already produced the…
The Star Tribune reports on a free-food nonprofit run by a relative of a state representative. The headline reads, State representative’s brother runs nonprofit that participated in federal meals program…
KARE-11’s Lou Raguse spent his day at the Federal courthouse in Minneapolis. The U.S. Attorney put out a press release. In yesterday’s post, I covered the backstory of each of…
Every year, Cato Institute publishes a Fiscal Report Card on America’s Governors, which ranks how well each state’s governor performs on fiscal responsibility. Grades range from A to F. Generally,…
Fox 9 reports that three figures charged in the Feeding Our Future case are scheduled to appear in Federal court tomorrow (Thursday) and are expected to plead guilty. It is…
Deena Winter of the Minnesota Reformer has a scoop: the wife of Minneapolis city council member Jamal Osman operated a free food site last year. Ilo Amba incorporated the nonprofit…
Recently, I asked ‘What do states without an income tax do?‘ Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute asks a similar question about the states without an income tax: “How do…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that a high-profile events center project is moving ahead in Bloomington, despite the indictment of the project’s CEO in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Mukhtar…
The sixth indictment in the Feeding Our Future case involves the family-run Brava Restaurant and Café in Rochester. The Brava indictment names six members of the Jama family and involves…
The Minnesota Reformer reports on the ties between a former Bernie Sanders campaign staffer in Iowa and the Feeding Our Future network. The Reformer reports that Abshir Omar worked for…
The Miami Dolphins are 3-1 this season and wide receiver Tyreek Hill is one reason for that. The six-time Pro Bowler currently leads the Dolphins with 31 receptions for 477…
The subject of the Department of Justice’s fourth indictment in the Feeding Our Future scandal is an entity called Haji’s Kitchen, run by a man with the last name of…
A newly uncovered court transcript indicated that unnamed state representative went to bat for Feeding Our Future and one of its nonprofit food providers. The transcript, from a hearing that…