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…
You need a program to keep up with the intramural warfare in the Minneapolis Democratic (DFL) party these days. The official party logo: All thirteen seats (representing individual wards) on…
Two more of the 60 defendants plead guilty. As expected, Defendants Nos. 51 and 52 pled guilty this week, bringing the number of convictions in the Feeding Our Future free-food-fraud…
Coincidences abound when it comes to the Feeding Our Future scandal. In this post, we look at some of the links connecting the various scandals reverberating around Minneapolis Democratic politics…
The Saturday melee at the Minneapolis Ward 10 Democratic convention has received worldwide attention. I’m not going to get into the middle of who did what and who was to…
The always-alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 noticed the filing made last Thursday in Federal court. The motion to move the trial to the District of Northern Illinois was joined by…
Criminal trials have been postponed to 2024. Two unrelated civil lawsuits are now closed. The Feeding Our Future scandal has spawned a cottage industry in courtroom activities, at the state…
…After avoiding an early brush with the Feeding Our Future scandal. In some rare good news for the economy of Minneapolis and St. Paul, local entrepreneur Abdirahman Kahin won the…
Defendant No. 59 was a no-show in Federal court last week. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. The always alert Lou Raguse of KARE 11 reported on this…
In the wake of the Feeding Our Future scandal, Minnesota voters believe a greater share of taxpayer dollars are wasted than ever before. The Center’s exclusive Thinking Minnesota opinion poll…
Andy Luger, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, announced 10 more defendants were indicted this morning in the Feeding Our Future scandal. The total charged in the case…
The saying used to go, “All politics is local.” Not anymore. To be competitive in Minnesota politics, at least within the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party, you need to have a…
Catching up with news from last month. On Feb. 7, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that the state Dept. of Human Services (DHS) had moved to shut down two adult…
Four free-food nonprofits are suing the Dept. of Education. Free-food lawsuits may be Minnesota’s biggest growth industry. Last week, the always alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 noticed that the state…
The nonprofit Youth Leadership Academy, d/b/a Gar Gaar Family Services, had been the third largest Minnesota participant in the Federal Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), one of two child nutrition…
Minnesota’s Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) has a timely report out on the (mis)management of nonprofit grants by state government. The news is not good. The OLA’s report, running…
The scandal-prone state senator has emerged in 2023 more powerful than ever. Minnesota state Sen. Omar Fateh (DFL-Minneapolis) survived a series of scandals in 2022 to win reelection in November…
Did most free-food money go to fraud in Minnesota? It sure looks like it. In Gov. Walz’ budget proposal filed this week, the Walz administration has added some details to…
For Liban Alishire, the JigJiga is truly up. Last night, the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota sent out a press release announcing the latest guilty plea in the Feeding Our Future…
Two defendants in the Feeding Our Future case were also arrested for passport fraud as they tried to flee the country. Both of them have been released from jail. Abdiaziz…