Filsan Hassan (Defendant No. 26 of 60 in the case) entered the 15th guilty plea in the scandal today in the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Hassan, 29, was part…
It turns out that giving away free food to poor hungry children was an extremely lucrative enterprise in 2021. I’ve mentioned before how hundreds of nonprofits sprung up overnight (or…
Three defendants in the case ran a Burnsville charter school. In the last post, we dug into the tax returns filed by the biggest nonprofits involved in the free-food scandal.…
The major nonprofit players in the free-food scandal may be dead and gone as corporate beings, but they live on in tax return and audit trails. Examining the official IRS…
Keith Ellison, the state’s attorney general, has filed lawsuits against 23 nonprofit corporations based in five greater Metro counties. His is seeking to have the nonprofits dissolved as corporate entities.…
Could this be the end for the free-food nonprofit Partners in Nutrition? In a ruling published last month by the state Court of Appeals, the court ruled that the state…
The latest is Defendant No. 24 (of 60) in the case, Sahra Nur. She was the second person indicted under the S&S Catering group, and ran the nonprofit Academy for…
We’ve reached a baker’s dozen of convictions in the free-food scandal. Yusuf Ali is the latest defendant to plead guilty in the case. Ali, defendant No. 30 in the scandal,…
Abdikadir Kadiye, Defendant No. 55 in the case, entered a guilty plea yesterday in Federal court in Minneapolis. This represents the 12th conviction, to date, obtained by the U.S. Attorney.…
The lead defendant in the S&S Catering group pleaded guilty today. Qamar Hassan was defendant No. 23 (of 60) and now is guilty plea No. 11 in the Feeding Our…
A number of properties linked to the free-food scandal have fallen behind on their property taxes. Immediately after the FBI raids on Feeding Our Future in January 2022, the U.S.…
It’s been a quiet summer so far for the Feeding Our Future scandal, but rest assured, a lot is going on in the behind the scenes. MN Reformer is continuing…
We recently visited this southern Minnesota city and noted some of the connections to free-food fraud. Back in March of last year, we noted that during Covid, Owatonna had more…
Not all the indicted figures in the Feeding Our Future case stuck around to face justice. According to media reports, at least three of the sixty defendants have left the…
Connecting more dots between Feeding Our Future defendants and political figures in Minnesota. Back in March, the U.S. Attorney announced the latest batch of Feeding Our Future indictments. The batch…
Abdulkadir Awale, defendant No. 56, has become the 10th defendant to plead guilty in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Awale, of Bloomington, ran three restaurants involved in the scandal: Karmel…