Feeding Our Future, the Minnesota food charity sponsor whose offices
have been raided by the FBI over allegations of massive fraud that some
estimates have placed in the hundreds of millions of dollars, claimed
that it wants to make āthe world a better place for allā.
10 members of FOFās staff boast of speaking Somali, others of Arabic
and related languages often spoken by Muslim minorities, but only 3
speak Spanish and only 1 knows Chinese. The organizationās Manager of
Operations, Food Program Coordinators Manager, Food Program Support
Manager, and multiple administrators, all appear to be Somali.
The contact page is decorated with a photo of a woman in a hijab chowing down on a burger.
The pandemic destroyed lives, hundreds of thousands died, millions
lost their businesses and jobs, but a great river of government money
flowed to those who knew how to play the game.
As The Counter notes,
āIn the early months of the pandemic, the Department of Agriculture
(USDA) acted quickly to loosen rules governing how child nutrition
programs had to operate. Gone were the strict nutrition guidelines, the
group dining requirements, and the in-person inspections. Instead, the
agency focused on cutting red tape as part of a broad effort to keep
snacks and meals accessible to hungry families while mitigating the
spread of Covid-19.ā
In 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed $3.4 million in
taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020,
that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021.
These were impressive numbers for a charity that seemed to focus on Somalis in Minnesota.
While there may be some hungry Somali Muslim kids in the Gopher
State, $197 million would buy them all meals at five-star steakhouses
before jetting them away from the snow to Vegas.
According to a lawyer for Aimee Bock, FOFās founder, who isnāt
Somali, but whose lawyer previously represented a Somali ISIS recruit,
āall Ms. Bock did was feed children.ā
When over 200 FBI agents converged on the offices of various non-profits, their search warrants claimed that the
Somali aid groups received ātens of millions of dollarsā but that
āalmost none of this money was used to feed children.ā The FOFās
Minneapolis offices were near the Somali Abu Huraira mosque and not far
from a multitude of Somali community organizations.
Some of the money allegedly went to Bock and her boyfriend, Empress
Malcolm Watson Jr., apparently a bail bondsman tracking wanted
fugitives, who had previously been arrested for domestic violence, and whose construction company received $600,000 from her non-profit.
The only client listed on its site has the first name, āAimeeā.
Bill Glahn, a reporter for American Experiment who has been investigating the case, noted that Empress
Malcolm Watson, Jr. āhas an impressively long list of encounters with
local law enforcement. 4 felony convictions, one for theft by swindle
and one for domestic assaultā which is even bigger than the rap sheet of
his revered father, Empress Malcolm Watson, Sr.
From there it gets quite complicated.
Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, a Feeding Our Future employee, according to
the FBI documents, controlled multiple target premises, opened over 20
bank accounts in the name of his various entities, and āsolicited and
received kickbacksā from the groups receiving child nutrition cash.
According to Feeding Our Future, the organizationās āextensive
knowledge of the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Programā helped āchild
and adult care programs maximize their reimbursementā. These were the
groups on whose behalf it acted as a sponsor.
Feeding Our Future was getting a 10% administrative fee off the top. But that wasnāt enough.
Safari Restaurant, which boasts ātraditional Somali cuisineā like french fries and safari chicken quesadilla, where Rep. Ilhan Omar had celebrated her victory party, applied to participate in the Federal Child Nutrition program.
When the money was denied, Feeding Our Future complained that
āminority-owned businesses serving almost exclusively economically
disadvantaged children of colorā were being denied the right to serve
āculturally relevant foodsā to āyouthā during a ānational emergencyā.
Crying racism worked and at its peak Safari claimed to be feeding 6,000 children a
day. Thatās a lot of children. Documents note that the Somali eatery
claimed to be serving a comparable number of meals to āthe entire St.
Paul public school district.ā
Safari was just one of the many providers who claimed to be feeding thousands of children.
Glahn in American Experiment found that,
āFeeding Our Future had 312 authorized sites for the program, approved
for a maximum of 126,000 children.ā Thatās a lot of hungry Somali kids.
Oliver Twist, eat your heart out.
He also noted that, āFive of the sites are religious centers.ā
The Feds staked out various Feeding Our Future meal sites and found
no one at the places that were supposed to be feeding 50,000 children.
According to the FBI, the money being stolen wasnāt used to feed
children, it went into various shell companies and fronts operated by
Somalis and was used to buy everything from a Porsche to African
properties.
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,
āQamar Ahmed Hassan wrote approximately $27,000 in checks from S&S
Catering bank accountsā¦ to Amax Travel, a travel agency that specializes
in Haji travel packages.ā
Haji is the Islamic obligation for every Muslim to visit their holy city of Mecca.
Amax offers trips to the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina, that
non-Muslims are banned from entering, five-star hotels, and tours led by
Imams.
One of the non-profits associated with FOF, Stigma-Free International, was incorporated by Minneapolis City Council Member Jamal Osman.
The Somali politician is a political ally of Rep. Ilhan Omar and has
been photographed with her. He had previously been featured in a Project
Veritas undercover investigation which appeared to show his brother ārifling through piles of ballots strewn across his dashboardā and declaring, ājust today we got 300 for Jamal Osman.ā
The man in question had also allegedly worked on Omarās political campaign.
The scale and scope of the alleged fraud is as vast as the network
that perpetrated it. The FBI warrants list numerous people, the vast
majority of them Somali Muslims, a dizzying variety of non-profits that
received the money, and a wide variety of destinations for the cash. The
fraud was lubricated by false accusations of racism and discrimination
by FOF and its recepients.
During the initial controversy, a video in support of Feeding Our
Future at the Safari resteurant featured numerous local politicians,
including Senator Omar Fateh, the first Somali Muslim in the state
senate, who had been backed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
A Deputy District Director for Rep. Ilhan Omar gave what was described as an āimpassioned speechā declaring, āThis community is tired. Itās tired of the bullsāā
But itās Americans who have every right to be tried.
Open borders migration is not feeding our future. Itās stealing our future away.