Feeding Whose Future?
A Minnesota scandal reveals a ‘replacement theory’ underbelly of widespread Blue State corruption.
For those of you who haven’t already left Minnesota, you may be aware of the jury verdict in the Feeding Our Future (FOF) $250 million nonprofit scam.
For the rest of you, five of seven defendants—the first of many more from the Twin Cities burgeoning Somali ‘refugee’ community—charged with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering were found guilty of a scheme to divert millions in government funds for luxury cars, jewelry, travel and property.1
And, of course, kickbacks.
Something the defense tried to describe as routine in a “common East African culture of informal transactions to friends and family.”2 Apparently so was a clumsy attempt at bribery when ‘friends’ delivered a package with $120,000 in cash to a juror’s doorstep.3 It was turned over and the juror dismissed.
The pandemic meal money originated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and was administered by state officials who funneled it (like so much federal largesse) through a myriad of nonprofit organizations serving downtrodden refugees.4 Eighteen other defendants have pleaded guilty while FOF founder Aimee Bock says she never took anything and saw no evidence of fraud among her subcontractors.
Wow, talk about your COVID ‘stimulus’ program!