Dozens ARRESTED in Ihan Omar Backed MASSIVE $250M FRAUD, Just BALOONED in Size to Over $400 MILLION!

This was also our first chance to ask Fate about feeding our future and video entered as an exhibit in the trial showing Fate at a June 2021 event celebrating a ruling that prevented the state from stopping payments due to suspected fraud.

Fate praised two key players later charged in the scandal.

Ikram Muhammad and executive director Amy Bach.

Today, a judge handed down the longest sentence so far in the feeding our future fraud scandal.

Amazingly, it’s not the only major development in court.

Turns out the $250 million estimate is only a drop in the bucket to what the fraud cost the taxpayers.

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Now y’all, today we have an update on one of the craziest stories that I have done.

It is a not only $250 million fraud called feeding our future, but it looks like the fraud may have even extended way beyond $250 million.

And you know who promoted it? Two people in the great state of Minnesota.

your girl Ilhan Omar who you are seeing on your screen right now promoting the feeding our future fraud over $250 million and also a member of the Minnesota government who wants to become the next mayor of Minneapolis Omar Fate I said fate in my previous videos but it looks like it’s fate so we’re going to try to pronounce it correctly Omar Fate actually went to bat when It was discovered that this $250 million fraud was defrauding people and the powers that be tried to stop the fraud.

Fat actually mobilized to keep the fraud going.

You’re going to see that in this video and you saw some of that from the coming up.

So y’all, this is just wow.

But you know what? This sounds like something that happened, but it’s actually continuing.

Not the fraud, but the aftermath.

Three more suspects in the Feeding Our Future fraud case made their first court appearances this afternoon.

In the meantime, we’ve been tracking what happened to some of the money they received, including political donations.

Here’s Lou Reggse.

There’s no evidence that the politicians knew the money was coming from people involved with alleged fraud, but we wanted to check how much money they received and whether they’ve returned it.

Between March 2020 and now, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar received three campaign donations totaling $7,400 from three suspects now charged in the quarter of a billion dollar feeding our future federal meal fraud.

Most of the money came from owners of Safari restaurant.

Omar’s campaign says she has donated all that money to food charities.

Omar’s not the only Minnesota politician to receive donations from the defendants.

State Senator Omar Fate returned 10 contributions after last winter’s FBI raids.

State Senator John Hoffman just returned $3,000 in contributions from McFira Hussein and her associates.

Hussein was arrested after booking a one-way flight to Ethiopia.

Not every campaign contribution stayed in Minnesota.

Carol 11 News tracked $8,750 from nine fraud defendants giving to Washington State Representative candidate Shukriolo.

She was unaware when we contacted her which of the donations came from feeding our future suspects.

And the donations didn’t completely stop after the FBI investigation was made public in January.

Four months later, Attorney General Keith Ellison, who already had an active lawsuit against Feeding Our Future, received $2,700 from Lee Alshshire, who’s charged with stealing $1.

6 million in federal money.

Ellison’s campaign announced they refunded the donation in full.

There also were a couple losing primary candidates who received donations because people are still being arrested, people are still being put on trial, and people are still being found guilty and sentenced.

And just within the last week, the biggest sentence for this fraud.

The biggest prison sentence was handed down.

So, this thing is not over by a long shot.

I would say it’s just getting started.

And you have to wonder if any prominent people might be arrested and put on trial for this.

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Today, a judge handed down the longest sentence so far in the feeding our future fraud scandal.

Amazingly, it’s not the only major development in court.

Turns out the $250 million estimate is only a drop in the bucket to what the fraud cost the taxpayers.

Lou Reggse lays it all out for us.

As the ring leader in a group that stole nearly $50 million and the mastermind behind the plot to bribe a juror in his trial, 36-year-old Abby Aziz Farah is one of the most prolific fraudsters in the Feeding Our Future case.

Yeah, he’s one of the worst uh for several factories.

Acting US Attorney Joe Thompson says Farah was one of the very first people to begin defrauding taxpayers during the pandemic, recruiting others and claiming to serve 18 million meals to children at first out of his tiny Empire Cuisine and Market in Shakapei.

eventually making more absurd claims such as serving kids in big open fields to the tune of nearly $50 million.

People in this case not only took tens of millions of dollars but laundered much of it abroad and sent much of it to Kenya among other things they were building in an entire apartment building in Nairobi.

The feds can’t get back the cash Far bought in Kenya.

But they did seize five luxury cars in all the US property he bought, including lots on Prior Lake, where he planned to build a multi-million dollar home.

At his sentencing hearing, Farra apologized for trying to bribe one of his jurors, saying he panicked, but he said nothing of his role in the fraud scheme.

The sense I got was he’s sorry he got caught.

Judge Nancy Brazzle sentenced Farah to 28 years in prison, the longest sentence so far among the pandemic meal fraud suspects.

And afterwards, Thompson updated the scope of the overall loss of taxpayer money.

So the $50 million that they took, most of that’s in addition to the $250 million that’s commonly cited as the total loss amount in this case.

So the total loss in this case is well in excess of $300 million and possibly in excess of $400 million.

Now, the reason for that, the $250 million number accounts for the fraud that was run through the nonprofit sponsor called Feeding Our Future.

But Far’s group worked with a different sponsor called Partners in Nutrition.

No one from Partners has been charged yet.

Thompson says they’re still investigating.

Farah still needs to be sentenced for the juror bribe, which will likely add more years to his 28-year sentence.

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So, you may wonder, okay, Omar Fate, you know, he he’s popped on the scene recently because he’s like the the Minneapolis version of Mom Donnie, you know, socialist, wants to take money and resources from people of means and wants to give it to people who don’t have anything.

You know, you know how it goes, right? It’s it tried and true.

Never worked.

Won’t work here.

But he’s popped onto the national scene with with his crazy promises.

But now people are to say, “Hey, aren’t you the same guy? Isn’t that you? Who when we found out that feeding our future was defrauding us for hundreds of millions of dollars, weren’t you the person who came and tried to keep the fraud going? So, let’s take a look at how he answers for that very inconvenient truth.

This was also our first chance to ask Fate about feeding our future and video entered as an exhibit in the trial showing Fate at a June 2021 event celebrating a ruling that prevented the state from stopping payments due to suspected fraud.

Fate praised two key players later charged in the scandal, Ikram Muhammad and executive director Amy Bach.

And I want to thank also Amy.

Months later, the FBI carried out their raids.

You were on video thanking Amy Bach, Ikram Muhammad.

Uh what do you say to Minneapolis voters about those connections given what ultimately happened to those folks? That was a situation which was really heartbreaking.

Uh folks that we believed were serving honorably the community.

Fate returned campaign funds given by several donors connected to the scandal.

Anytime folks uh abuse the system uh fraudulently, especially when it comes to children, we need to stand against that.

as a a state senator, um why weren’t you more skeptical about the growth of that program and the fraud that was potentially happening? I don’t think at that time we knew that they were under investigation.

Looking ahead to November, Fate says his mayoral campaign will highlight working class issues and folks just want their leaders uh to stand up for the everyday person.

So yes, y’all, you heard it right.

Governor Tim Walls, you know, he’s his his governorship has overseen probably something like half a billion dollars minimum of fraud.

So, congratulations on that, Tim Walls.

But to his credit, y’all, it does look like they tried to put a a stop to the fraud.

What happened when they tried to put a stop to the fraud? A judge blocked them from stopping the fraud.

Now, Fate was part of that whole movement to stop stop to stop the people who wanted to stop the fraud.

In other words, to keep the fraud going.

So, a judge actually blocked the government from stopping the massive fraud.

Is take a This is just wild.

Take a look.

DFL Governor Tim Walls today defended how the education department handled food fraud allegations during the pandemic.

Prosecutors say millions meant for hungry kids went to buy luxury cars and homes instead.

Our Caroline Cummings has more on what’s turned into a political war of words.

Caroline, hi there, Frank.

So, Walls spoke for the first time today since a rare rebuke from a judge presiding over a lawsuit lawsuit from Feeding Our Future, which is the organization at the center of this case.

The judge came out Friday saying he did not issue a written court order to resume payments to the organization amid the legal fight with Feeding Our Future.

As Walls suggested last week, transcripts of court hearings from April show that the judge said there could be issues if pay payments weren’t resumed based on federal regulations related to the child nutrition funds.

I’m not an attorney.

I know that in my time here, there’s never been a state agency had a uh a contempt of court filed.

So, we’re nervous.

We’re rule followers.

We’re trying to get this right.

But my my gripe is not with the court.

it’s with and again that’s the interpretation on this.

Um I mean that’s what the lawyers all thought that that’s what it meant.

At issue in this case was processing applications for feeding our future sites not payment.

Still Wall said today his administration interpreted the order as having to act on paying those funds.

Republicans accused the education department and the attorney general of not doing more to stop the alleged fraud and are seeking more answers of the timeline of what what led up to the indictments of dozens of people in the case last week.

So y’all, how do we explain this? I mean, what do we say about this? 200 more than $250 million.

Over 70 people involved, probably hundreds of people if you really want to get down to it.

And this is just one of at least two.

And this is just one of two major hundreds of millions of dollars fraud that we see under the Tim Walls administration.

And he’s always like, “We didn’t know.

We didn’t we when we saw it, we couldn’t do anything.

” Come on, man.

So anyway, y’all let me know what how how much how much of our economy is probably fraud.

How much of how much of our economy is probably just being stolen? How much of our revenue how much of our national uh uh treasure is probably just being stolen? I mean, I would have said previously maybe 1%.

Maybe half of a percent.

I’m starting to think it might be much more than that.

I mean, of all the government expenditures, if you told me now 10, 15, 20% or more, I probably believe it.

And that’s that is devastating because then what happens is the people don’t get the services.

They blame they don’t blame the government.

And if they do, who cares, you know, because the government just blames the rich people.

They want to raise taxes.

They get more money in and then they steal more or they waste more or they lose more.

You see how that works? It’s crazy.

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Governor, this wouldn’t be about violent crime, but uh your administration is taking a lot of criticism for uh allegedly allowing defeating our future scandal to continue.

What’s your response to that? Well, first of all, and and I hope the outrage on this is a global pandemic and our biggest fear was food insecurity, especially for the number of children who who are hungry in the best of times.

So the audacity, the brazeness, and the absolute heartlessness of of a criminal ring focusing on uh children’s foods is is just beyond the pale.

Um with that being said, it’s a federal program through the Department of Agriculture.

Our administration very early in the previous presidential administration noted the irregularities with this.

We alerted folks as quickly as we could.

Um we took that forward.

We took the step of stopping payments.

Um my commissioner was threatened with jail if she did not pay by um contempt of court.

The judge ruled.

Um we accepted that ruling.

We went back to the new administration once again and went to the FBI who took this seriously.

And I think what you’re seeing coming out now, I and my team have not been able to say anything because the FBI was in an active investigation and we were told not to.

So why Senate Republicans held hearings and took my commissioner and threatened to fire her, she was under orders from the FBI.

And the way the system works is to not say anything.

So we caught this fraud.

We caught it very early.

We alerted the right people.

We were taken to court.

We were sued.

We were threatened with going to jail.

We stuck with it.

We got the FBI out there.

And we have 48 people um under indictment.

And um that’s the way it’s supposed to work.

And uh again, we have oversight by the legislature.

Um these are folks that continue to underfund my agencies when I ask them that we we need help to do these different things.

But I think uh the criticism, if you look, is not coming from the FBI.

It’s not coming from the Department of Agriculture.

It’s not coming from the US attorney.

The criticism we were getting was coming from the criminals who celebrated and talked about firing my commissioner and getting her fired when they were celebrating when the judge made the ruling.

So, um, very clear on this is unacceptable.

We take fraud seriously.

Um, we’re very transparent about this.

We got the people who did this.

Um, we will start to recapture those resources and, um, we’ll continue on.

So, again, it’s amazing to me that we find folks in the political realm that are more angry that they can’t blame us for everything rather than recognizing we had criminals that we caught.

this whole idea of wanting Minnesota to fail is just permeated.

Um especially the the Senate I it’s just unfortunate.

So I’m proud of the work that our folks did.

We always can try and get better.

Criminals, these folks will tell you, you do one thing, they’ll outsmart you and they’ll come another way.

All of us get the scam calls.

All of us know what’s happening.

They’ll move from one to the other.

But uh the fact of the matter is it was our administration that caught it.

We caught it early.

We asked for help.

We didn’t get it.

The courts ruled against us.

We complied.

but still push this.

We got the FBI’s involvement and this week we got indictments.

Did you have to get personally involved in this? And do you think the judge who told your education department to restart payments should resign? I would hope there would be an investigation into that because just to be candid and I’m very careful about this and I understand my position here in the separation of powers.

We respected the judge decision but I could and yes on this one I can tell you I was speechless.

unbelievable that this ruling would come down.

Did not really know what to say.

Obviously, we had to honor it.

But it was at that point in time I said we have got to continue to push the federal government and the FBI to do the investigation.

So, yes, I was alerted and we were alerted early.

And the challenge of this was is keep in mind what the community was saying when we were early on talking and and noted this within months of the program starting.

We were in the midst of CO, we had hungry children.

Our concern was too the disruption that this would cause and making sure and there were people out there that said if you follow through with this and you pull back there are some legitimate folks going to get caught up in this and children are going to go hungry.

So those were the decisions that I was making to ensure that we were getting the legitimate folks and trying to separate these folks out.

Once again, this idea of going after MDE, why are you complaining at the police officer who made the arrest who tried to do this? These folks were doing it.

So, yes, I uh I’m not going to say I’m not going to go Theo and I’ll answer directly on this.

I am highly disappointed.

None of us are perfect.

Um maybe this was just a bad decision.

All of us do it and judicial decisions can be the same way.

Um but I would hope there would be some some view on this because again, when you’re you’re all seeing now what we saw ahead of time, the evidence to me was overwhelming.

I wouldn’t have believed in a million years that they were going to rule that way.

And keep in mind, they walked right up to and this group celebrated that the commissioner could be going to jail if she doesn’t pay us.

That’s the way this thing read, that she had to follow through and make payments even though our administration knew there was the highest probability that that they were defrauding the