Muse Mohamed was convicted of perjury related to his mishandling of absentee ballots in a 2018 election. The Sahan Journal reports that Mohamed was sentenced this morning to two years…
Defendant No. 49 is formally charged in Federal court. Mohamed Muse Noor had been arrested at O’Hare airport late last month, en route to Turkey. Known professionally as Deeq Darajo,…
Digging deeper into the Feeding Our Future scandal.
The public has been begging for a complete list of political donations from figures indicted in the Feeding Our Future scandal. See below: A few caveats are in order. The…
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…
Seven of state Sen. Omar Fateh’s colleagues have signed on to an ethics complaint lodged against the first-term legislator from Minneapolis. Filed on the final full day of the 2022…
Freshman state Senator Omar Fateh (DFL-Minneapolis) has been generating more than his share of headlines lately. Tracking his various scandals requires a scorecard, if not an entire program. The latest…
The question of what to do with Minnesota’s forecast state government budget surplus of $9.3 billion is dominating political and policy discussion in the state right now. Such a decision…
Minnesota State Senator Omar Fateh returned contributions from 11 persons linked to the alleged Feeding Our Future scandal. Who were the 11? Early in the alleged Feeding Our Future scandal,…
When it comes to politics in Minnesota, the Democrats are the professionals, and Republicans are the amateurs. I don’t say that to disparage my Republican friends. Politics is supposed to…
They say to always follow the money. The fallout from the alleged free-food scandal has claimed another Minneapolis official. This time it was the chair of the city’s public housing…
The relationship between Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s political campaigns date back to 2016. The money flows both ways. The restaurant and related entities were named in…
For those following at home, the links, key dates, and key events included below provide a road map to the story, as it has unfolded. Not one person has been…
It’s been nearly a week since the FBI raided the offices of the Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Since then, there have been no further developments in the case. Could…
Often defined by its professed ends - equality - socialism is rarely defined by its means - extensive government ownership and control of the economy.
Now they tell us. Three incumbent DFL state legislators who each recently lost the nod for their party’s endorsement suddenly sound more like conservative critics when it comes to allowing…