According to jail records, Abdinasir Abshir was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals on Friday and is being held in the Sherburne County jail. Abshir made a brief appearance…
It’s always something. We are two weeks into the 2nd Feeding Our Future trial at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. The trial is taking place in a 13th-floor courtroom…
The courtroom trial for two Feeding Our Future defendants resumed this morning after a five-day break for the holiday weekend. In testimony today, the name of Minneapolis city council member…
Several people sent me the notice of the introduction of Senate File 1140, which provides a $15 million state grant to the nonprofit We Win Institute of Minneapolis. The bill…
It was a bizarre scene yesterday in the state House of Representatives’ Education Policy committee. The Commissioner of the state Dept. of Education (MDE), Willie Jett, time and again deferred…
The second courtroom trial got underway yesterday at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Opening statements were heard in the trial of Aimee Bock, Defendant No. 1 in the case,…
Yesterday, at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, two guilty pleas were entered in the sprawling free-food scandal. Zamzam Jama was first up Wednesday morning. Zamzam, Defendant No. 44 in…
The second courtroom trial in the sprawling Feeding Our Future case got underway on Monday morning at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. This trial features Aimee Bock, Feeding Our…
Yesterday, the Minnesota Star Tribune committed an act of journalism in reporting on another significant fraud scandal in state government. This one involves a program called Housing Stabilization Services (HSS)…
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…
The 4th of 6 guilty pleas scheduled for this week was entered in the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis this afternoon in the sprawling free-food scandal. Mohamed Muse Noor, aged…
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…
Jay Kolls of KSTP-5 TV performs a public service in his report last night on the 10 o’clock news. His headline: 62 investigations underway involving federally-funded Minnesota child care centers…
It’s shaping up to be a big week in the Feeding Our Future scandal, with four guilty pleas expected to be entered. Ahead of their federal trial scheduled to begin…
Mukhtar Shariff, Defendant No. 21 in the sprawling free food scandal and just the second defendant to be sentenced in the Feeding Our Future case received a prison term of…
The headline in the Sahan Journal is shocking: Feeding Our Future suspect threatened to kill witness, prosecutor reveals Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson says Salim Said threatened to kill a…
The next trial of four defendants begins February 3 and will feature some of the biggest names in the scandal: Aimee Bock (Defendant No. 1), two co-owners of the now-defunct…
Let’s talk turkey! Golden Turkey, that is. In what turned out to be a two-project race, the new state flag and seal defeated Gov. Tim Walz’s DEI staff to win…
Lots of Feeding Our Future news to report this week. Ayan Abukar, award-winning founder of the nonprofit organization Action for East African People (AFEAP), is scheduled to plead guilty in…
Or, at least that’s what he’d like you to think. The Minnesota governor, having returned home from his failed Vice-Presidential bid, held a press conference this morning to announce new…
In 2024, people visited AmericanExperiment.org an incredible 3.2 million times — a new record! But what exactly were they reading? These are American Experiment’s Top 10 Most Read Stories of…
Two videos, both produced in 2021, show the Minneapolis mayoral candidate speaking about his advocacy work on behalf of private companies providing social services funded by state government (taxpayers). Here…
Back in 1973, when Time magazine ran a story titled “The Good Life in Minnesota” and put our state’s governor, Wendell Anderson, on the cover, the article stated: “Politics is almost…
That’s according to the outgoing U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, Andy Luger. And he should know. Luger, a Biden appointee, announced that he will step down next month and sat down…