In an undated video sent to American Experiment, a group of Somali women appear to be giving Feeding Our Future CEO Aimee Bock an award. After they present her with…
The U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, Andy Luger, announced the indictments today (Sept. 20) of 47 individuals in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Scroll to the bottom for the latest developments.…
The Feeding Our Future scandal largely disappeared from the radar of local media this summer. However, court cases involving the state’s three-largest free-food charities reveal that the battle continues to…
Partners in Nutrition wants back into Federal programs that provided $100 million per year in revenue to the company. The St. Paul-based nonprofit corporation Partners in Nutrition has sued the…
Despite the Feeding Our Future scandal, Minnesota’s free-food programs continue to operate. Immediately after the FBI raids in January, there were widespread concerns that children would not be fed with…
The story is a familiar one: missing free-food money, but no arrests or charges. The setting is the southeast Alabama city of Dothan, so the accents are different. The peanut…
The first guilty plea has been entered in the Feeding Our Future scandal… for passport fraud. Not much has been heard lately from the half-billion-dollar Feeding Our Future scandal. The…
One of the properties that the U.S. Attorney is trying to seize in this case is located in Brooklyn Park. It is property No. 13 of the 14 locations named…
If you put Governor Walz’s tax proposals on an X/Y axis, you would see an inverse relationship between how generous the tax proposal is, to how little chance it has…
We visit two sites closely associated with the third free-food network shut down by the state Department of Education (MDE). At the time it was shut down by MDE, Gar…
We wind up our free-food tour of the Twin Cities with stops at two “Youth”-related commercial buildings. We’ve previously covered the rise and fall of the short-lived nonprofit Youth Inventors…
We visit Brooklyn Center, the home of the one success story behind Feeding Our Future. During the years-long battle between the free-food nonprofit Feeding Our Future and the state Department…
Your correspondent visits Subject Premises No. 6 in the Feeding Our Future case. In the middle of a narrow residential street in south Minneapolis sits an unmarked one-story office building…
A Victorian mansion-turned-office building sits at the heart of the scandal. Yesterday, we visited forfeiture properties Nos. 6 and 7 in the Feeding Our Future case. The properties at 2722…
Your correspondent ventures south of the river, again. A while back we documented the free-food connections to be found in the south metro suburban city of Burnsville. 1506 Southcross Drive…
Your correspondent goes looking for free food and finds light rail instead. A couple of months ago, we wrote about the connections between the free-food scandal and the small western…
In which your correspondent visits two of the Feeding Our Future forfeiture properties. We’ve previously discussed the 309 address on E. Lake Street in Minneapolis, which included Subject Premises Nos.…
In which your correspondent ventures into St. Paul. We previously reported on the curious case of 1821 University Avenue, St. Paul, a large office complex home to no fewer than…
In which your correspondent returns to Edina. Subject Premises No. 1 in the third FBI search warrant in the Feeding Our Future case is this co-working office facility located at…
Recently, we’ve been making connections between the free-food scandal, overseen by the state Department of Education (MDE), and other government entitlement programs overseen by the state Department of Human Services…
In which your correspondent ventures south of the river. The only two arrests made in connection to the Feeding Our Future scandal involve the two co-owners of the Empire Cuisine…
Your correspondent visits the scene of the (alleged) crime. They say that the map is not the terrain. In that spirit, your correspondent visited, in person, the office building where…
And, once again, it involves passport fraud. To date, not one person has been arrested or charged in the underlying Feeding Our Future fraud case. A second figure in the…
Just south of the once-bustling Uptown neighborhood is this nondescript office building: It was Feeding Our Future’s Abdikerm Eidleh’s business address on Hennepin Avenue, which was searched by the FBI…