[POWERLINE] United States Attorney Andrew Luger called a press conference to announce indictments in the massive Minnesota free lunch fraud that we have covered in the linked series of posts since that date back to this past January. At that time the FBI executed a search warrants and property seizures all over the Twin Cities. The fraud involved hundred of millions of federal tax dollars. It was massive, as I say, but it was also open, obvious, and notorious. The government has charged 47 defendants in six indictments and three criminal informations — with a promise of more defendants to come — in what it assesses to be a $250 million fraud. Luger stated that the government has recovered cash and property worth a total of $50 million to date.
This is a huge story involving the biggest food fraud in history and the largest pandemic fraud uncovered so far. We’re number one.
[Amiee Marie] Bock appears to have been the ringleader who recruited members of the Twin Cities Somali community to participate in the fraud. Bock was the front person who claimed discrimination when the Minnesota Department of Education first sniffed out the fraud...[thus extending the fraud for months].
"Guhaad Hashi Said, 46, of Minneapolis, Minnesota [an enforcer for US Rep Omar], is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Hashi ran a site under the name Advance Youth Athletic Development that falsely claimed to serve up to 5,000 meals a day."