Feeding Our Future
November 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Ryan Thorpe/Chris Rufo City Journal column “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer” is, as Drudge would say, impacting. It attracted the attention of the White House and elicited President Trump’s statement that he has terminated Teporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota. The Star Tribune story by Christopher Vondracek on Trump’s statement is a glorified editorial of the party-line lyin’ kind. Vondracek baldly asserts: “Trump’s post
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November 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo provide a useful overview of the frauds we have covered over the past many years in their City Journal story “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer” (the City Journal headline is itself a quote from a confidential source). The financial support for Islamist terrorism seems to be the hook behind the breakthrough of the story into national attention, as in House Speaker
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November 20, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Ousman Camara of Brooklyn Center, age 45, was indicted on nine counts related to fraud, the U.S. Attorney (USAO) announced in a press release. Camara made his first appearance in the case at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis this morning. He becomes the 77th person charged in relation to the Feeding Our Future scandal. The U.S. Attorney asserts that Camara’s grocery was disqualified from participating in the SNAP program a
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October 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
KSTP 5 Eyewitness News spotlights the massive defrauding of Minnesota state programs in the report “What the fraud?” The four-minute clip below has nothing that will be new to Power Line readers, but it flags the scope of the problem. Former Acting United States Attorney Joe Thompson is the star of the clip. With the swearing-in of Dan Rosen as United States Attorney on October 10, Joe has accepted Dan’s
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October 19, 2025 — Scott Johnson
As I was searching for something else this past week I came across an old file holding a column I wrote for City Journal in May 2018. Titled “Mogadishu, Minnesota,” the column covered the daycare fraud in America’s most welcoming state. I had forgotten the column, but it has become timely again with the Feeding Our Future fraud and the doors it has opened doors on other massive frauds committed
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October 8, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I generally agree with Bill Glahn’s observation in “The dog that never barked” (the adjacent post): “Not a single person in authority, not any elected official, no one in law enforcement, the judiciary, the state bureaucracy, the media, or elsewhere have linked these fraud scandals [i.e., Feeding Our Future, housing consultants, autism clinics, etc.] to any ethnic group or groups.” A discreet silence obtains in the case of the frauds
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October 2, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Abdiwahab Ahmed Mohamud, age 35, is set to go on trial in Minneapolis in the latest Feeding Our Future fraud case on October 14. In a filing made yesterday, he is accused of witness tampering. You will recall that Scott and I have been covering the case since it first broke in January 2022. The fraud case involves somewhere between $300 million and $500 million stolen from a federal free-food
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September 26, 2025 — Scott Johnson
It seems that Dearborn has come to represent the future of the Democratic Party. Chuck Ross reports the Free Beacon story “Three Rising Democratic Stars To Appear Alongside Hamas Lovers at Anti-Israel Conference in America’s ‘Jihad Capital.’” The subhead names three names: “Abdul El-Sayed, Rep Ro Khanna, and Michigan lieutenant governor Garlin Gilchrist are all slated to appear at ArabCon.” Ross notes that ArabCon convenes an anti-Israel jamboree including “a
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September 25, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday Acting United States Attorney for Minnesota Joe Thompson unveiled the first charge in what is expected to be a case involving a billion-dollar Medicaid fraud in Minnesota’s EIDBI benefit program. The defendant — Asha Farhan Hassan — is also the defendant number 76 in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud case. She will plead guilty some time soon. For some reason or other, Ms. Farhan is not described as
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September 24, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Acting United States Attorney for Minnesota Joe Thompson has just unveiled yet another fraud case — this one involving Asha Farhan Hassan and Minnesota’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (“EIDBI”) benefit. Hassan was charged by federal information with wire fraud for her role in a $14 million autism fraud scheme. The fraud is gross, massive, and enraging. In addition, Hassan had her hand in the Feeding Our Future till
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September 24, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota state representative Walter Hudson tuned in to the Joe Thompson press conference I wrote about at some length last week in “The fraud this time.” Liz Collin followed up with Rep. Hudson for her Alpha News show in the video below. The related Alpha News story is posted here. The interview provides a useful review and raises some of the issues I have raised on Power Line and elsewhere.
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September 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Defendant number 75 in Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future fraud is “Burnsville woman” Muna Wais Fidhin. She is apparently the wife or ex- of Somaliland’s foreign minister and some kind of representative of Somaliland in the United States. The dominant clan of Somaliland is the Isaaq. In Somalia outside of Somaliland the dominant clans are the the Hawiye and Darood. The tribal connections have persisted in Minnesota, although Ilhan Omar’s marriage
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September 19, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Acting United States Attorney for Minnesota Joe Thompson called a press conference for 11:00 a.m. yesterday morning. I attended the press conference along with several other reporters to hear his statement and ask a few questions. Thompson called the press conference to announce indictments and criminal complaints in eight new fraud cases against “Minnesota men” with such resonant names as Mokhtar Hassan Aden, Mustafa Dayib Ali, and Khalid Ahmed Dayib.
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September 15, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Nearly twenty years ago I covered Keith Ellison’s first campaign for Congress extremely closely. I talked to sources all around the United States in the course of the campaign. I have an Ellison file six inches thick deriving from my work on that campaign. Star Tribune reporter Rochelle Olson covered that campaign for the Star Tribune. Her coverage essentially performed public relations on its behalf. Her motto was not there’s
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September 12, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Feeding Our Future fraud ringleader Aimee Bock took the stand to testify in her own defense toward the end of her trial this past March. Lead prosecutor — now Acting United States Attorney — Joe Thompson cross-examined Bock about the use of the nonprofit’s funds for personal purposes by Bock herself and by her “live-in boyfriend.” The estimable Mr. Thompson must have incorporated the “live-in boyfriend” phrase 25 times into
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September 7, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The local press has paid minimal attention to the indictment of defendant number 75 in Minnesota’s massive Feeding Our Future scandal. She is “Burnsville woman” Muna Wais Fidhin. She is apparently the wife or ex- of Somaliland’s foreign minister and some kind of representative of Somaliland in the United States. Somaliland is a breakaway province of Somalia. The dominant clan of Somaliland is the Isaaq. In Somalia outside of Somaliland
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September 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Muna Wais Fidhin is defendant number 75 in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud scandal that took place under the nose of Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison. Lacking any shame, their dreams of higher office persist. The failure of the local Twin Cities media has something to do with the political vitality of these clowns (e.g., Walz) and knaves (e.g., Ellison). Ellison’s son Jeremiah, a member of
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