46 Minnesota Somalis charged with stealing $250 million in COVID-19 funds

Federal agents staked out a number of Feeding Our Future meal sites but discovered that there was nobody there supposedly feeding 50,000 children. It turns out the only people being 'fed' were Somalis using various shell companies as fronts to steal the funding, which they used to buy expensive cars and even property in Africa.

According  to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, S&S Catering, led by Qamar Ahmed Hassan, received $13.8 million in federal funds. The FBI warrants note that, “Qamar Ahmed Hassan wrote approximately $27,000 in checks from S&S Catering bank accounts… to Amax Travel, a travel agency that specializes in Haji travel packages.”

The official federal indictments of 47 people have been issued and of these, 46 of those charged are Somalis.

Most of the individuals charged in the fraud scheme, prosecutors say, used the stolen funds to buy luxury vehicles, residential and commercial real estate, real estate in Kenya and Turkey, and to fund their international travel.

In 2019, Feeding Our Future received and disbursed about $3.4 million in federal funds to feed underprivileged children in the Minneapolis area. By 2021, the nonprofit had received almost $200 million in federal funds.

The scheme included Feeding Our Future allegedly claiming to open more than 250 Federal Child Nutrition Program sites across the state of Minnesota. Most of the 47 individuals claimed to operate these sites by filing fraudulent documents purporting to be feeding children, prosecutors allege.

Feeding Our Future executives, prosecutors claim, knew all along that the fraud was taking place but continued to submit fraudulent documents to secure Federal Child Nutrition Program funds for the sites claiming to be feeding children.

Ilhan Omar

The DOJ announced the charges against 47 defendants for their alleged roles in exploiting a federally-funded child nutrition program to the tune of $250,000,000 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A key element in the scheme was to cry racism. A few politicians came forward to back up the alleged fraudsters and there remain questions regarding the extent to which they may have helped enable the fraud.

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Being that it's Minnesota and Somalis, Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar comes to mind since the accused Somalis donated to her as well as State Senator Omar Fatch, and Shukri Olow who is running for state representative, State Rep. Hodan Hassan [a Keith Ellison crony] and others.

Rep. Ilhan Omar has made government meals for children into one of her signature issues, so there's that and that she likely married her own brother.

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