This week, Minnesota’s fraud epidemic continues to dominate the national news, with Ilhan Omar and Keith Ellison at the center of the storm. Grace and Kathryn break down the connections…
Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast! This week, Grace and Kathryn take a behind-the-scenes look at the breaking news of the week: Minnesota taxpayers have been funding terrorism abroad.…
In August 2020, Rep. Ilhan Omar (DFL) introduced the Make Billionaires Pay Act to Congress, which would have imposed a 60% tax on the gains in wealth billionaires made between…
Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast! This week, Grace and Kathryn are joined by Bill Walsh to break down the latest Minnesota and national news. First, Governor Walz is…
Guhaad Hashi Said became the 52nd defendant convicted in the sprawling free-food scandal this afternoon at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Said, now age 49, entered the 45th guilty…
In a July 10 Minnesota Star Tribune opinion piece, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN5) scolded fellow members of her state delegation who voted in favor of the One Big Beautiful Bill…
Ahmed Ghedi, Defendant No. 13 in the free-food scandal, was scheduled to become the 47th individual convicted in the fraud case, so far. He was present and on time at…
So much is going on with the Feeding Our Future case in the next two weeks that I had to create a calendar to keep up. Up next in the…
I’m sure you’ve seen that famous June 2021 video of Feeding Our Future CEO Aimee Bock being serenaded with singing and dancing while being presented with an award. The occasion…
Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s Attorney General, can clearly be heard pledging his support to individuals who would soon become his family’s campaign donors and later Feeding Our Future criminal defendants. His…
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…
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…
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…
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…
2025 will be an election year in Minneapolis, with the mayor and the entire city council on the ballot. Incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey appears ready to run for a third…
In response to COVID, the federal government sent Minnesota $1.3 billion for E-12 education. Those dollars were meant to help schools return to, and maintain, safe in-person learning for all…
Abdullahe Nur Jesow showed up more than 20 minutes late to court today, and when he finally arrived, he was in no mood to plead guilty. Jesow claimed to have…
In what may be a first for the Feeding Our Future case, eleven (11) defendants were inside the same courtroom at the same time this morning at the Federal building…
Court filings entered this week in the Feeding Our Future fraud case suggest that a 19th guilty plea may be entered next month. As you recall, some 70 defendants have…
You may have seen the videos on social media this weekend. The occasion was the annual Somali Independence Day festival on Lake Street in Minneapolis on Saturday. The event was…
This morning, at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger announced that five individuals have been indicted for attempting to bribe the juror in the recently concluded…
As we close out another week of the trial in Minneapolis, prosecutors have featured many of the (alleged) ill-gotten gains of the free-food scheme. A survey of recent headlines: ‘The…
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), based in Minneapolis, is mentioned in news reports of yesterday’s failed anti-Israel protests slated for the main Tallahassee campus of Florida State University. Local…
It’s a saga worthy of George Jefferson himself. The controversial Democratic Congresswoman from Minneapolis was back in the news today. More precisely, her eldest daughter was in the news for…