Feeding Our Future
April 25, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the Washington Examiner, How Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is embroiled in the Feeding Our Future scandal. The Examiner reports, Members of the GOP-led Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee continued to examine Ellison’s entanglement in the Feeding Our Future scandal at a hearing this week, which Ellison skipped. The Examiner goes on to perform a public service by undertaking a comprehensive re-reporting of the
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April 24, 2026 — Bill Glahn
It all began to unravel last Friday (April 17), when the Wall Street Journal reported that the Minnesota congresswoman’s net worth had plummeted in less than a year from as much as $30 million to less than $100,000. Oof. On Monday, the Journal followed up on their news item with an opinion piece. On Tuesday, Rep. Omar had a much-reported-on run-in with a reporter in the hallway in Congress. Also
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April 22, 2026 — Bill Glahn
We were hoping that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MPLS) would have made an appearance at yesterday’s meeting of the Minnesota state House Fraud prevention committee. The timing would have been fantastic, as the story of her 3,500 percent “accounting error” that reduced her net worth from $30 million to a mere $95,000 continues to reverberate. She had been invited to attend, but did not respond and did not appear or send
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April 22, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The Minnesota state House Fraud Prevention committee met yesterday and the star attraction was to have been a repeat appearance from state Attorney General Keith Ellison. Ellison was asked to appear and answer more questions about his involvement in the Feeding our Future fraud scandal in light of new information made public since his last appearance in April 2025. The night before the hearing, Mr. Ellison sent his regrets via
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April 1, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the U.K Daily Mail, Second Somali fraudster handed light sentence by Minneapolis judge. The Daily Mail reports, A second Somali fraudster, who stole half a million dollars, was handed a mere six months in jail by a Minneapolis judge, just a day after one of her co-conspirators was sentenced to a year. Zamzam Jama was ordered to pay back $491,000 and will spend half a year in jail for
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April 1, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The question keeps coming up in reference to the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal: what did Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison know, and when did he know it? Another piece to the puzzle can be found in a court filing made last month in the case of Sharon Ross, the former operator of the House of Refuge food distribution operation in St. Paul. Ross is Defendant No. 60 (out of
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March 31, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the U.K. Daily Mail, Somali fraudster handed laughably light sentence by Minneapolis judge over $3m taxpayer fraud. The Daily Mail reports, A man at the center of a $3 million taxpayer fraud connected to a sweeping Minnesota scam has been sentenced to only one year and one day in prison. Abdul Abubakar Ali pleaded guilty in 2022 for his role in the Feeding Our Future scandal in Minneapolis, which
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March 27, 2026 — Scott Johnson
When Imprimis editor Doug Jeffrey invited me to write “Learning From Minnesota’s Somali Fraud Scandal” for the January issue, I knew it offered a new experience. Imprimis is the monthly publication of Hillsdale College. It goes out to 7,000,000 free subscribers and is posted online as well. Since it was published in mid-January, I have heard from state and federal government officials wanting to follow up on the essay. I
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March 26, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison appears to have lied to the United States Senate in testimony he gave last month before the Senate’s Homeland Security committee. The occasion was a February 12 committee hearing at which Ellison appeared to discuss the subject of ICE operations in Minnesota The untruthful testimony from Ellison involved a different issue, namely, $10,000 in campaign donations received by Ellison from figures linked to the Feeding Our Future
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March 18, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Yes, it’s back in the headlines. From Fox News, Minnesota Fraud Exposed New audit exposes flawed system critics say let Minnesota fraud slip through cracks: ‘Didn’t act for years’ Long story short: the state’s Dept. of Human Services refused to investigate reports of kickbacks to “client” families paid by vendors in the state’s billion-dollar autism therapy program because…reasons. The Feeding Our Future child nutrition fraud will see six (6) more
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March 5, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Last month I wrote about Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s nonfeasance and lying in the Feeding Our Future case in connection with the last congressional circus featuring Ellison. I called the circus “Another wasted opportunity.” The thought continues to apply. In “Keith Ellison exposed,” Bill Glahn writes about Ellison’s civil cases resulting in the dissolution of a few of the nonprofits that featured prominently in the Feeding Our Future scandal.
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March 4, 2026 — Bill Glahn
There are probably fewer than 100 people in America who would understand the importance of a 47-second exchange during today’s marathon 4-hour and 20-minute U.S. House Oversight committee hearing at the capitol. But the brief sequence gets to the heart of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s nonfeasance/misfeasance/malfeasance in regard to the multi-billion-dollar welfare frauds plaguing the state. Today’s committee hearing was headlined, Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds
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March 4, 2026 — John Hinderaker
I haven’t had time to watch the entirety of today’s Oversight Committee hearing, featuring Tim Walz and Keith Ellison. But this exchange with Congressman Jim Jordan is not bad. Jordan highlights Walz’s dishonesty, and at the end he gets to the key point: Walz and pretty much every other leader of the DFL Party wanted the Feeding Our Future fraud to continue because it supported a key DFL electoral constituency.
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February 18, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Fahima Egeh Mahamud became the 79th defendant charged in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud case, and the first to be charged in 2026. She is currently being held in the federal lockup at the Sherburne County (MN) jail. According to court filings in the case, Mahamud operated a food distribution site under the name Future Leaders Early Learning Center under the sponsorship of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future. According
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February 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Senator Josh Hawley has participated in the transformation of congressional hearings into performance art, but he hasn’t done much to elicit information in the process. At least he didn’t with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison yesterday. I wish he would have asked a question or two whose purpose was to obtain an answer to something we don’t know. Let’s take the matter of the Feeding Our Future fraud. FOF was
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January 28, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar was sprayed with an unknown substance by a nut with a syringe at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis last night. Security guards subdued and apprehended her attacker, who was booked into the Hennepin County Jail. I’m glad she was unhurt. I especially loathe violence against politicians, law enforcement officers, and public officials. However, I intend to keep spraying Omar with the truth. The
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January 24, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Imprimis is the distinguisued monthly publication of Hillsdale College. It goes out in hard copy to some 7,000,000 free subscribers (subcribe here) and is also posted online. Long-time Imprimis editor Doug Jeffrey invited me to write the January issue for readers who are only vaguely aware of Minnesota’s massive public-programs fraud. In my world Doug is a legendary editor. I was grateful for the opportunity to write for Imprimis and
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