Ilhan Omar’s links to Somali food fraud scheme in Minnesota revealed
The United Kingdom’s Daily Mail digs into the links between Ilhan Oman and the others involved in the fraud.
New details reveal Ilhan Omar‘s potential links to those convicted in the Somali fraud case in Minnesota.
The progressive Somali-born congresswoman has so far not been directly tied by prosecutors to the scandal – but she does have connections to at least two convicted food fraudsters.
And now the Trump administration is investigating whether the millions fraudulently obtained were then funneled to terrorist organizations, including Somalia-based Al-Shabaab.
Salim Ahmed Said, 33, is the owner of Safari Restaurant, which is where Omar held her 2018 campaign victory party.
He was convicted in March 2025 on 21 counts including wire fraud, federal programs bribery and money laundering. He allegedly pocketed $5 million from the scheme funneling money through Feeding Our Future for his own enrichments rather than for the child nutrition program.
He is facing decades in prison and is one of the more than 70 defendants charged in the sweeping case. There are 45 convictions so far.
Additionally, Omar campaign official Guhaad Hashi Said, pleaded guilty in August to running fake food site Advance Youth Athletic Development, and pocketing $3.2 million from the program.
Omar maintains she was completely unaware of illegal activity, even though she introduced the 2020 MEALS Act bill that made the $250 million fraud scheme possible.
(Read more at the Daily Mail)
Omar crafted the bill that started this COVID-era grab
Beside the fact that Omar wrote this bill and would know the loopholes within bill, think of this:
How does a member of the House go in several short years from being $45,000 in debt to having a surplus of $2 million when her expenses are those of the inflated Beltway type and her salary is $175,000?
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Ilhan Omar’s tight connections to the Minnesota fraudsters
Red State lays out the connections between Ilhan Omar and the fraudsters who started the scheme.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5) has not been formally accused of any direct involvement with the welfare fraud scandal going down in the Gopher State, where scammers of mostly Somali descent ripped off the government by skimming as much as $1 billion from nutrition programs like Feeding Our Future.
She’s certainly familiar with some of the people involved, however — in fact, she reportedly knows some of them quite well. Omar has strong relationships with at least two scammers in the fraud saga:
Salim Ahmed Said, 33, is the owner of Safari Restaurant, which is where Omar held her 2018 campaign victory party.
He was convicted in March 2025 on 21 counts including wire fraud, federal programs bribery and money laundering. He allegedly pocketed $5 million from the scheme funneling money through Feeding Our Future for his own enrichments rather than for the child nutrition program.
He is facing decades in prison and is one of the more than 70 defendants charged in the sweeping case. There are 45 convictions so far.
Another one of the thieves worked directly with her campaign:
A different Omar campaign official, a Democratic activist named Guhaad Hashi Said, pleaded guilty in August to running a fake food site called Advance Youth Athletic Development, where he falsely claimed to serve 5,000 meals a day and pocketed $3.2 million out of the food program.
Said worked on Omar’s 2018 and 2020 campaigns as an “enforcer” who oversaw aggressive voter mobilization in the Somali community, according to local Alphanews.org.
(Read more and see more links to incriminating informat at Red State)
“Ignore the man behind the curtain”
This is as old as Oz.
Yet the legacy media dutifully ignores this scandal.
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Feeding Our Future: Keith Ellison caught on tape!
The American Experiment explores the part Keith Ellison played in allowing the fraud perpetrated by the Somali immigrants on American taxpayers.
Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s Attorney General, can clearly be heard pledging his support to individuals who would soon become his family’s campaign donors and later Feeding Our Future criminal defendants.
His recorded statements flatly contradict his contemporaneous public statements and raise uncomfortable questions about the intersection between political fundraising and constituent services.
American Experiment has exclusively obtained the complete 54-minute, 44-second audio file of a private December 2021 meeting between state Attorney General (AG) Keith Ellison and key figures in the Feeding Our Future scandal.
As I wrote last week, the audio file was named as Exhibit 710 on the evidence list presented to the court by Aimee Bock’s defense attorney, Kenneth Udoibok. The recording was not offered into evidence during the six-week trial that concluded last month, with Bock’s conviction on all seven counts she faced. A timeline of relevant events can be found here.
As a document, it exceeds expectations. Voices can be heard clearly and are clearly identifiable. The highlights, which are many, tend to be front-loaded. I’ve included below some clips from the meeting to highlight a few points.
The recording begins before the meeting starts. Attendees have assembled (confirmed later by KSTP to be in Ellison’s official offices) and are already speaking, but formal introductions had not yet occurred.
The meeting proper begins at the 1:28 mark with introductions. The female voice heard beginning at 1:45 belongs to Ikram Mohamed. She is Feeding Our Future Defendant No. 63, overall, in the case and is expected to stand trial in December 2025.
(Read more at the American Experiment)
Even for lower level Democrats like Ellison, the press ignores the story
One thing you have to say about Democrats and other socialists, they are great at marching in lock step.
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Chairman Comer launches an investigation into the massive fraud in Minnesota’s Social Services System on Governor Walz’s Watch
Senator Comer and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee present their beginning investigation into the massive fraud in Minnesota’s Social Services System.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today launched an investigation into widespread fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs under Governor Tim Walz’s watch, the state’s efforts to cover it up, and retaliation against whistleblowers who sought to protect taxpayer dollars. In letters to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, Chairman Comer seeks documents, communications, and records as part of the Committee’s investigation.
“The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating reports of widespread fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs. The Committee has serious concerns about how you as the Governor, and the Democrat-controlled administration, allowed millions of dollars to be stolen. The Committee also has concerns that you and your administration were fully aware of this fraud and chose not to act for fear of political retaliation. The Committee therefore requests documents and communications showing what your administration knew about this fraud and whether you took action to limit or halt the investigation into this widespread fraud,” wrote Chairman Comer to Governor Walz.
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have charged dozens of individuals with stealing more than $240 million from the Federal Child Nutrition Program through the Minnesota-based nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Although they claimed to have served thousands of meals to children during the COVID-19 pandemic, only a small fraction of those meals was provided. Instead, the defendants allegedly used taxpayer funds to purchase luxury cars, homes, and real estate.
In separate schemes, another group allegedly defrauded Minnesota’s housing stabilization program of more than $104 million by falsely claiming to help people at risk of homelessness. A third group is accused of stealing $14 million by billing for autism treatment services that were never provided. Reports indicate that Minnesota officials saw early signs of fraud within Feeding Our Future but failed to intervene. Additional reporting alleges that some fraudulently obtained funds distributed through the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) were sent overseas to support terrorist organizations, including Al-Shabaab and ISIS. Whistleblowers within DHS have alleged the agency has deleted data and withheld records to cover up the fraud.
(Read at the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee for the quote of Ellison)
From this beginning, it cannot bode well for Ellison or Omar
Get the popcorn. This will be good for those of us who suffered through the coverage of the sham of the 6 January trials.
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Treasury Department investigating apparent taxpayer funding of terror organization under Biden and Walz
The Western Journal documents the flow of Minnesota taxpayer funds through Social Services to Somali terrorists in al Shabab.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday that his department will investigate allegations of massive fraud across multiple programs administered by the state of Minnesota.
“At my direction, @USTreasury is investigating allegations that under the feckless mismanagement of the Biden Administration and Governor Tim Walz, hardworking Minnesotans’ tax dollars may have been diverted to the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab,” Bessent posted on X.
“Thanks to the leadership of @POTUS @realDonaldTrump, we are acting fast to ensure Americans’ taxes are not funding acts of global terror. We will share our findings as our investigation continues,” he wrote.
Allegations of massive fraud were initially leveled last month in a report by City Journal, which alleged, “Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch.”
“In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab,” the report said.
(Read more at the Western Journal)
On top if this, there are reports that Biden’s border policy let ISIS into America
There are numerous reports that Biden’s lax vetting and lax border policies invited ISIS into America.
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Hundreds of Minnesota government staffers say Governor Tim Walz hid Somali fraud and “attacked whistleblowers”
Breitbart shines the light on Governor “Tampon Tim” Walz for his protection of the Somali fraudsters and his attacks on those who would expose the truth.
Nearly 500 employees in Minnesota’s state government say Democrat Governor Tim Walz ignored their constant warnings about massive fraud by Somalis of the state’s aid programs.
The staffers in the state’s Department of Health Services also say that Walz retaliated against them for exposing the corruption in the state’s Somali community.
The group of state employees have been operating an X account for several years where they have warned the public of the cases of fraud and theft they are finding in the aid program. In years past they warned the former Democrat vice presidential nominee and the citizens of Minnesota of the widespread issues they have uncovered. But in a new post, the group is saying that not only has Walz ignored their warnings, he has punished them for raising the alarm.
“Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota,” the group said in a November 29 post referencing a New York Times article on the crimes. “We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud, but no, we got the opposite response.”
They added, “Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation by Tim Walz, certain DFL members, and an indifferent mainstream media. It’s scary, isolating, and left us wondering who we can turn to.”
(Read more and see the supporting tweet at Breitbart)
Who to believe: the over 500 whistleblowers and the New York Times or “Jazz Hands” Walz?
My bet is that the Democrats throw all their belief behind the guy with jazz hands. For once, they will ignore the Times.
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Whistleblowers blaming Tim Walz for fraud get suspended on X
The Daily Signal points out how free speech got curtailed in the case of the whistleblowers attempting to expose the fraud in Minnesota.
Minnesota whistleblowers went viral on X over the weekend after accusing Gov. Tim Walz of enabling fraud by retaliating against whistleblowers, and the social media platform suspended their account in a move conservatives suggest may represent another form of retaliation.
“Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota,” the X account posted on Saturday. “Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports.”
The whistleblower account claimed that Walz’s appointed leaders had threatened the families of whistleblowers to keep the fraud hidden, and it claimed that “no single agency leader has been held responsible for their role in fraud.”
The post came amid increased national attention to the fraudsters who stole hundreds of millions from U.S. taxpayers in the last few years. The office of U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen has charged 78 defendants connected to the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, and 56 of them have pleaded guilty. Last month, conservative journalist Christopher Rufo highlighted how many fraudsters sent cash to the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab.
By Monday, the whistleblower’s X post garnered nearly 37 million views. Suddenly, the entire account disappeared.
(Read more at the Daily Signal)
This is fully expected in the world of Democrat influence.
At least on X, the post got 37 million views before disappearing. On BlueSky, the post would never have been seen.
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Minneapolis judge sparks fury by overturning taxpayer $7.2 million fraud conviction, as Somalis “scam Minnesota out of $1 BILLION”
The United Kingdom’s Daily Mail looks into the commotion caused by the overturn of a jury’s decision by a liberal judge in the case of a Somali fraudster.
A judge in Minneapolis has sparked rage after she decided to overturn a taxpayer fraud conviction that saw a husband and wife go down for robbing $7.2 million from people.
Abdifatah Yusuf, 44, was found guilty of robbing innocent taxpayers through a home healthcare care company called Promise Health in August.
A jury found that he and his wife, Lul Ahmed, ran a deceitful Medicaid fraud scheme out of a mailbox at the so-called medical company and used the money for ‘lavish’ shopping sprees, including trips to name brand and designer stores like Coach, Canada Goose, Nike, Michael Kors, and to purchase high end cars, according to prosecutors.
But in a shocking twist of events, and months after Yusuf was found responsible for directing the massive scam, Judge Sarah West decided last week that the jury was all wrong and he should be let off the hook.
She defended her choice by stating that the case ‘relied heavily on circumstantial evidence’ and that the state of Minnesota did not rule out other potential ‘reasonable inferences.’
Her decision to overturn the case, which is extremely rare especially in criminal cases, has ignited a fire storm not just for the general public but for the jurors who sealed his fate.
‘I am shocked. I’m shocked based off of all of the evidence that was presented to us and the obvious guilt that we saw based off of the said evidence,’ jury foreperson Ben Walfoort told KARE 11 News.
‘It was not a difficult decision whatsoever. The deliberation took probably four hours at most. Based off of the state’s evidence that was presented, it was beyond a reasonable doubt,’ he added.
(Read more at the Daily Mail)
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