An audio recording of MN Attorney General Keith Ellison was included on the exhibit list of Feeding Our Future’s Aimee Bock in the recently concluded trial. It was not introduced…
On a cold, rainy morning, a third guilty plea was entered into the juror bribery case arising out of the first Feeding Our Future trial. Your correspondent was there at…
Do you know where your tax dollars are? It’s a sorry state of affairs when Minnesota — long the gold standard of forthright Midwest values and decency — is now…
This month’s dramatic court verdicts in the Feeding Our Future {FOF} case (“guilty on all counts”) don’t mark the end of the saga. In Churchillian terms, it’s more like “the…
The CEO of the Minnesota-based free-food behemoth Second Harvest Heartland announced that she will be stepping down from her position. Allison O’Toole will be leaving the organization after leading it…
There are lots of proposals swirling around the state capitol aimed at stopping the fraud rampant throughout state government. Will any of them work? Will any of them gain enough…
Governor Walz continues to boast about how many Minnesotan kids are on Medicaid, but is that REALLY something to BOAST about?! Later Grace, Bill, and Kathryn react to House DFL…
Abdihakim Ahmed entered the 38th guilty plea, overall, in the Feeding Our Future case this morning. In a 35-minute hearing before Judge Nancy Brasel at the federal courthouse in downtown…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is expected to conduct a “town hall” meeting in Rochester tomorrow (Saturday) morning at a local high school auditorium. It’s part of his multi-state tour, conducting…
A jury found two Feeding Our Future defendants guilty of all charges this afternoon, after a six-week trial at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis. Deliberations lasted (at most) five hours.…
We are in waiting mode as the jury deliberates in the 2nd Feeding Our Future trial. The jury began deliberations this morning in the case against Aimee Bock, founder and…
Truer words were never spoken. The six-week-long second trial of Feeding Our Future defendants wrapped up late this afternoon. Now the matter is in the hands of the jury to…
The second Feeding Our Future trial resumed this morning at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Your correspondent was there. Salim Said, co-owner of the Safari Restaurant of south Minneapolis,…
Your correspondent was there for Day 4 of the trial testimony of Aimee Bock, the founder and CEO of the free-food nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Bock is on trial in…
Your correspondent was there for Day 3 of Aimee Bock’s testimony at the blockbuster Feeding Our Future trial going on at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. The founder and…
The trials continue in the Feeding Our Future scandal, the biggest fraud in the United States arising from COVID-19, totaling an estimated $250 million. This is only one example of…
Your correspondent was there. Defendant No. 1 in the sprawling free-food scandal, Aimee Bock, took the stand for over six hours today at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. The…
Against the advice of her attorney, Feeding Our Future CEO Aimee Bock took the stand late Friday afternoon in her federal fraud trial. She testified for only an hour before…
As the prosecution wraps up its case in the latest Feeding Our Future trial, some interesting details have emerged. Aimee Bock, Feeding Our Future CEO, and Salim Said, co-owner of…
The snowstorm appears to have wiped out today’s sitting of the Feeding Our Future trial against Aimee Bock and Salim Said, Defendant Nos. 1 and 3, respectively. To make up…
That seems to be the implication of reporting by the Minnesota Star Tribune from inside the Federal courtroom during the current free-food fraud trial. The Star Tribune‘s Jeffrey Meitrodt reports:…
The ever-alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 TV is out with a story on how Minneapolis city council member Jamal Osman (Ward 6) went to bat on behalf of Feeding Our…
Another twist in an already bizarre court case. I’ll get to the rifles in a minute, but first, some background. Two co-defendants (Nos. 1 and 3) in the Feeding Our…
In a late edition to the February 27 Federal court calendar, Abdikadir Mohamud, Defendant No. 9 in the case, filed Guilty Plea No. 36 in the sprawling free-food scandal. He…