Feeding Our Future
September 5, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The United States Attorney for Minnesota has indicted defendant number 75 in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud case. She fits a familiar profile — she is described by the Star Tribune as “a Burnsville woman” — and her scheme fits the familiar modus operandi. Ms. Fidhin was fiddlin’ on the taxpayers’ dime: Muna Wais Fidhin, 44, has been charged in a ten-count indictment with three counts of Wire Fraud,
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August 7, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Abdiaziz Farah was convicted on 23 felony counts of conspiracy, fraud, and related crimes in the first of the Feeding Our Future trials last year. I covered the trial and reported the guilty verdict here at the time. The government asked for a 30-year sentence. Granting most of the government’s wish and agreeing with its argument in its entirety, Judge Nancy Brasel sentenced Farah in federal district court here yesterday
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July 25, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The late Senator Everett Dirksen is credited with the observation: “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it begins to add up to real money.” In Minnesota, we’re not talking about budget items. We’re talking about fraud, courtesy of Acting United States Attorney Joe Thompson. Acting US attorney says Minnesota government fraud could exceed $1 BILLION‼️ "This is the tip of the iceberg here" – Attorney for the District
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June 4, 2025 — Scott Johnson
When the jury returned its guilty verdicts in the Feeding Our Future trial of Aimee Bock and Salim Said I wrote the Free Beacon column “From Feeding the Kids to Fleecing the Government: Inside the Country’s Largest COVID Fraud.” Having sat through the trial every day for five weeks, I thought the story underlying the case deserved a wide national audience. I wondered where state authorities were while the funds
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May 30, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Hibo Salah Daar sought to hightail it from Minneapolis to Dubai when the latest search in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud hit the news this past weekend. The FBI must have had her under surveillance. She was arrested at the MSP airport before she departed. She is in custody pending a detention hearing in federal court later today. After I wrote about her yesterday in “Flying on the ground,”
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May 29, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Feeding Our Future case continues to expand. Last week the court unsealed a search warrant executed on the office of New Vision Vision Foundation in St. Paul. New Vision hallucinated the dispensation of more than a million free meals at its St. Paul site in 2021. The office is located in a familiar industrial neighborhood that seems like a bad fit for serving up free meals. It’s another “you
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April 24, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Tom Hauser is the chief political reporter for KSTP-TV in the Twin Cities. In a close encounter of the X kind this past February, Hauser instructed me in political civility. Maybe he should concentrate on reporting. In his most recent story on the Ellison tape in the Feeding Our Future case, he simply reports: “Ellison denies soliciting or accepting donations from people in the meeting.” Hauser leaves it at that,
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April 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Free Beacon’s Collin Anderson takes a close look at Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s April 21 Star Tribune column on his ignorance of, and detachment from, the Feeding Our Future fraud. In the opening paragraph of his story Collin addresses the fundamental anomaly created by Ellison’s column: His defense flatly contradicts a statement his office released months after the meeting crediting him with working “for two solid years”
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April 22, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison comments defensively on his December 2021 meeting with principals in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud in the Star Tribune column “My meeting before Feeding our Future raid was routine.” Ellison has heretofore sought to convey the impression that he was on top of the fraud and that the continued flow of funds to the fraudsters through January 2022 derived from FBI instructions. When the
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April 15, 2025 — Scott Johnson
This past Friday the Washington Free Beacon’s Collin Anderson took a detailed look at the latest developments in our knowledge of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s nonfeasance in the Feeding Our Future fraud. Collin reports the Free Beacon story “Keith Ellison Held Chummy Meeting With Feeding Our Future Fraudsters Weeks Before FBI Raid, Audio Shows, Contradicting Minnesota AG’s Public Statements.” The Feeding Our Future case represents the biggest Covid fraud
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April 11, 2025 — Scott Johnson
A recording of Keith Ellison meeting with future defendants — future Feeding Our Future defendants — was listed as a trial exhibit by ringleader Aimee Bock. The recording was not introduced at the trial that led to Bock’s conviction, but Bill Glahn obtained a copy and wrote up what he found on it in “Feeding Our Future: Keith Ellison caught on tape!” I have posted audio of the recording that
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April 10, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Lead federal prosecutor Joe Thompson sat for an interview with Liz Collin on the Feeding Our Future case and the conviction of ringleader Aimee Bock at trial last month. Liz’s Alpha News story with lightly edited transcript is here. Video of the interview is below. As I have covered the case, with more trials to come, Joe has earned my trust and admiration several times over. He is not only
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April 9, 2025 — Scott Johnson
During the trial of Aimee Bock in the Feeding Our Future case I planned on writing a retrospective column once the jury returned with its verdict. That column turned out to be “Inside the nation’s largest Covid fraud” at the Washington Free Beacon. In connection with the planned column I submitted questions to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on March 3 and posted them on
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March 29, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Somewhere in my daily posts on the Feeding Our Future trial featuring ringleader Aimee Bock I meant to call out the local reporters who covered it. I thought they did a good job. Among the best were the Star Tribune’s Jeffrey Meitrodt, Sahan Journal’s Joey Peters, and KARE 11’s Lou Raguse. I don’t think anyone knows more about the facts of the fraud than Bill Glahn, who has been writing
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March 26, 2025 — John Hinderaker
These videos are intended to illustrate opposite ends of the informed citizen spectrum. The first relates to the Feeding Our Future scandal, which many of our readers have followed. Bill Glahn is the American Experiment Policy Fellow who has reported on the scandal from the beginning, and yesterday we did a webinar in which I interviewed Bill on the second FoF trial, which Scott attended and reported on here. (Bill
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March 24, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The second trial in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud concluded last week with the jury finding Aimee Bock the guilty mastermind. I try to take a step back and draw the big picture in the Washington Free Beacon column “From Feeding the Kids to Fleecing the Government: Inside the Country’s Largest COVID Fraud.” Even if you followed along with my daily trial reports, I hope Power Line readers might
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March 19, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The jury in the Feeding Our Fraud trial of Aimee Bock and Salim Said started deliberating at 9:00 this morning. They first had to elect a foreman and then vote on each of 28 counts on which the defendants were charged (7 against Bock and 21 against Said). I thought the jury would be out three or four days. In the event, the jury returned with their verdict finding defendants
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