Feeding Our Future
December 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Since the Feeding Our Future case has exploded into the national news, I thought I would take the liberty of republishing this sidebar on the issues implicit in the two Feeding Our Future trials held in the case so far and in the 2016 trial of defendants who were convicted of material support for terrorism. This might warrant republication every month for the foreseeable future. I covered all three trials
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December 12, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Last night the CBS Evening News ran Jonah Kaplan’s brief segment on the massive public-programs fraud committed under the auspices of the Walz administration by an almost exclusively by a large cast of Minnesota Somalis. I think it’s fair to say that, despite its best efforts, the Star Tribune is not exactly driving the narrative on this huge story with its efforts to minimize the magnitude of the fraud. Maybe
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December 11, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Over the weekend the Star Tribune published a revisionise account by business intern Emmy Martin and reporter Jeffrey Meitrody on the total losses in the Feeding Our Future trials and related cases. The story reported that the losses proved in the two Feeding Our Future trials to date amounted to an amount short of the nearly $300 million claimed. Martin and Meitrodt wrote: “A review of court records shows the
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December 10, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Becket Adams takes up the the press coverage of Minnesota’s Somali crime wave in his New York Post column “Media leaps to defend Minnesota’s Somali fraudsters — but trips over the awful truth.” Adams leads with the fraudulent Star Tribune story we have been ridiculing over the past few days (here and here). Unfortunately, Adams appears not to be aware of the Star Tribune’s farcical errors. The Star Tribune story
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December 10, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Spectator (UK) is the oldest surviving magazine in the world. It is a venerable institution, now with its own American edition published as Spectator World. Visiting a friend yesterday morning, I received an email message from the Spectator’s pseudonymous Cockburn. He wrote me: “Can’t help but notice…the recent trend in national media for claiming ‘exclusives’ about Somali fraud in Minnesota and Ilhan…have these guys not been reading Power Line/[Center
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December 9, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Star Tribune has posted a correction to the fraudulent story that I have been writing about over the past two days. Seeking to impugn President Trump and, by necessity, chief Feeding Our Future prosecutor Joe Thompson, the Star Tribune has minimized the amount of money Somali perpetrators have stolen. The Star Tribune insisted that “[a] review of court records show[ed] the alleged fraud uncovered to date is closer to
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December 9, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Now that the multi-billion-dollar frauds in Minnesota are national news, I thought it was time to revisit the document that represents the Rosetta Stone of the most prominent scandal, the one involving the food nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Estimates of this single fraud against taxpayers range from $300 million to $500 million. Federal and state investigations of this nonprofit have spun off other cases involving other government programs. So far,
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December 9, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Benjamin Weingarten is the author of the aptly titled American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party (foreword by Andrew McCarthy). At his Substack site, Ben has posted his research on the links among Ilhan Omar, the Feeding Our Future fraud, and the Feeding Our Future fraudsters. Ben asks: “Did Ilhan Omar Rake in More Campaign Cash From More ‘Feeding Our Future’ Scandal Fraudsters Than Has
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December 9, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Our old friend Hugh Hewitt invited me back on his syndicated radio show for two segments and few minutes more over an advertising break yesterday. He wrote me when we were about to kick things off: “Turns out there is insatiable desire for facts on this story. I am also merging it into the unemployment fraud scandal of California.” No Joe Biden moments this time, but I didn’t have all
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December 9, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Jason DeRusha hosts the Twin Cities drivetime radio show on WCCO-AM (830 radio). He invited me to discuss “Operation Walz” at the top of his second hour yesterday. He wanted to challenge my attribution of blame to the publisher of the Star Tribune — a former Walz administration commissioner — for the flawed Star Tribune story “Trump claims Minnesota lost billions to fraud. The evidence to date isn’t close.” Jason
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December 8, 2025 — Scott Johnson
KARE 11’s Lou Raguse deconstructs yesterday’s Star Tribune story by Emmy Martin and Jeffrey Meitrodt in the concise video below. I wrote about the “problems” with the Star Tribune story in “Operation Walz.” It took me 1,000 words to get it done. Lou gets it done in the video below in 2:20. He doesn’t know what Martin and Meitrodt are talking about either. How much government program money has been
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December 8, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday the Star Tribune published the story “Trump claims Minnesota lost billions to fraud. The evidence to date isn’t close.” The story runs under the byline of Emmy Martin and Jeffrey Meitrodt. Martin is a Star Tribune business intern. Meitrodt is a Star Tribune reporter. The Star Tribune allows no comments on their story. In substance the story is grossly stupid, incompetent, lazy, and false. It opens accurately, stating that
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December 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Matt Continetti adds to the Wall Street Journal’s discussion of the massive fraud in flyover country as he explains how “How Minnesota Became the Land of 10,000 Frauds.” He concludes his column: “Minnesota is a generous state, Minnesota is a prosperous state, a well-run state, we are AAA bond-rated, but that attracts criminals,” Mr. Walz told “Meet the Press.” No it doesn’t. What attracts criminals is the chance that they
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December 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson
KARE 11’s Lou Raguse is one of the local reporters who has covered the Feeding Our Future case all along the way. Yesterday he took up Governor Walz’s tribute to himself for stopping the fraud. I wrote about it in “Meet the distressed.” In the video fact-check below Lou concisely refutes Walz. Without fear or favor, Lou finds Walz’s self-exoneration to be false. This is well done. KARE 11 should
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December 5, 2025 — John Hinderaker
After several years of not paying attention, the worldwide media are fascinated by what has happened here in Minnesota: rampant fraud and criminality that cost taxpayers billions of dollars, while our state government was–at best!–asleep at the switch. Yesterday I was on the U.S. Report with James Morrow, on Sky News Australia. My appearance was devoted entirely to the Tim Walz scandal in its various permutations. I addressed exculpatory claims
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December 5, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Left-wing darling Ilhan Omar has not been indicted in any of the Walz administration frauds, but she was in the middle of at least one of them, the notorious Feeding Our Future scandal. Here, our Bill Glahn provides a short course on the Laura Ingraham show, earlier this evening: The Minnesota fraud didn’t happen in a vacuum — it happened in @IlhanMN's circle. “Ilhan Omar has close ties to the
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December 5, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Our old friend Hugh Hewitt invited me to appear on his syndicated radio show yesterday afternoon to discuss the Feeding Our Future fraud that has exploded into the national news thanks to the City Journal column by Ryan Thorpe and Chris Rufo. I wanted to put the story in the perspective of the case as it has played out over the past four years. Unfortunately, I had a major Joe
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