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US Indicts Somali Brothers on Charges of Fraud and Money Laundering for $40mil Feeding Our Future Scam
The Feeding Our Future Covid fraud case continues with yet more Somali colonists hauled before the bar. This is the one that Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison was involved with.
[Garowe] Two Kenyan brothers of the Somali tribe have been indicted for money laundering and fraud by the Department of Justice, following detailed investigations linking them to the crime, in what could lead to extradition to the United States.

Ahmednaji Maalim Aftin Sheikh, 28, a resident of Kenya, was indicted with conspiracy to commit money laundering by Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson. Sheikh is the 74th defendant charged in this scheme, the largest Covid fraud scheme in the country.

"I share the outrage of my fellow Minnesotans at seeing money meant to feed hungry children converted into fortunes half a world away," said Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson.

"Sheikh’s indictment shows yet again what we are up against. It is another window into the many fraud schemes that have seeped into every corner of our state. But we cannot shrink from confronting this crisis. We must come together as Minnesotans and demand that the frauds stop now. We must protect the future of our children and our state."

Sheikh helped his brother Abdiaziz Farah send millions of dollars from the Feeding Our Future fraud programme. Abdiaziz Farah was the leader of the "Empire" group and the lead defendant in the first Feeding Our Future trial.

Earlier this month, United States District Judge Nancy E. Brasel sentenced Abdiaziz Farah to 28 years in prison for his role in the fraud scheme. Abdiaziz Farah is pending sentencing in the juror bribery case before United States District Judge David S. Doty.

Farah, together with his accomplices, carried out a massive scheme to defraud the federal child nutrition program, a program designed to provide free meals to children in need. Abdiaziz Farah and his co-conspirators obtained, misappropriated, and laundered more than $40 million in federal child nutrition program funds that were intended to serve hungry children, the department said.

Sheikh helped Abdiaziz Farah use fraud proceeds to purchase a 20 per cent stake in a Kenyan real estate company. For example, in April 2021, Abdiaziz Farah purchased an apartment building in the South C neighbourhood of Nairobi, located adjacent to Nairobi National Park. Defendant Sheikh also helped Abdiaziz Farah use proceeds to purchase land in Mandera Town, a city located in Kenya, on the border with Somalia and Æthiopia, read the statement.

Throughout the time, the two brothers used to exchange text messages about the ill-got wealth. In one moment, Farah told Sheikh, "You are gonna be the richest 25-year-old, InshaAllah." Sheikh responded, "I love you so much." Abdiaziz Farah and Sheikh also exchanged messages and photos of the cash that was sent from Farah in the United States to Sheikh in Kenya.

For example, on August 29, 2021, Sheikh sent Abdiaziz Farah a photo of $138,000 in cash. On December 9, 2021, Sheikh sent Abdiaziz Farah a photo of banker’s boxes filled with $270,000 in cash that Farah sent to Sheikh.

On December 16, 2021, Sheikh sent Abdiaziz Farah photos of a receipt documenting a $300,000 money transfer from Abdiaziz Farah in Minneapolis to Sheikh in Kenya. Abdiaziz Farah reported the transfer purpose as "family support" and the source of the income as his "salary."

As the indictment notes, Individual S.D. is Abdiaziz Farah’s sister-in-law; she is the sister of Abdiaziz Farah’s wife. Individual S.D. is a naturalised U.S. citizen who lives in Minnesota. She worked at one of the companies that sponsored Abdiaziz Farah’s fraudulent participation in the federal child nutrition program.

In October 2021, Abdiaziz Farah purchased a townhome in Burnsville, Minnesota, for $575,000 using the proceeds of his fraud scheme. Individual S.D. then moved into that townhome.

On June 9, 2023, Individual S.D. filed a petition for an alien relative seeking to sponsor Sheikh’s immigration to and permanent residency in the United States. On the petition, Individual S.D. identified Sheikh as her husband.

"The federal child nutrition program was designed to provide meals to children in need," said FBI Minneapolis SAC Alvin M. Winston, Sr.

"According to the indictment, Ahmednaji Maalim Aftin Sheikh saw this instead as an opportunity to steal from taxpayers and from hungry children. The indictment alleges that Sheikh and his co-conspirators laundered more than $40 million in federal funds.

"Sheikh allegedly used the proceeds of his fraud to invest in an upper-class Kenyan real estate company. The FBI will use every resource to stop this shameful theft, and to ensure that taxpayer resources are used appropriately for their intended purpose."

These cases result from an investigation conducted by the FBI, IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
— Criminal Investigations, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.


Posted by: trailing wife || 09/12/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1793 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  While that’s a pretty big Covid scam, it’s not the biggest Covid scam.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/12/2025 7:03 Comments || Top||

#2  "...We must come together as Minnesotans and demand that the frauds stop now. We must protect the future of our children and our state."

Bub,

There's one guaranteed way to stop it.

But you won't like it.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 09/12/2025 8:38 Comments || Top||

#3  not the biggest Covid scam.

I think something like seventy-seven have been convicted so far, for something like a billion dollars in fraudulent payments, and something like over 200 have been arrested and are waiting their turn to be tried.

But I’m sure it is indeed not the biggest Covid scam. The biggest Covid scam, it seems to me, was the lockdown effort spearheaded by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/12/2025 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  TW, I agree that the biggest COVID scams were at the highest level. I would say that the biggest was the creation of the virus.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/12/2025 9:57 Comments || Top||

#5  with respect to the "feeding our future' scam, keep in mind that the FBI began deep investigation of this in 2021, raided the offices and other parts of the org in early 2022 and began trials in 2024

all during the Biden Administration
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/12/2025 15:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Anytime you have Somali and money in the same sentence, there is crime involved!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/12/2025 20:22 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Rep. Seth Moulton on CNN: majority of political violence is coming from the conservative side
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…Of extremist violent attacks in America...76% are from right wing extremists. 4% are from left wing extremists."
That’s Congressman Seth Moulton (D-northern Boston), the former Marine Corps officer who has been the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 6th congressional district since 2015.

Posted by: Fred || 09/12/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1793 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Moulton is a known liar, in addition to being a Democrat.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 09/12/2025 4:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Because "speech is violence"?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 09/12/2025 4:53 Comments || Top||

#3  All depends on how you define political violence
Posted by: Gritch Throlumble3163 || 09/12/2025 5:20 Comments || Top||

#4  So far unarmed civilians on the 'other side' have not been shot down in public by members of the 'conservative side'. Should that happen, surviving historians, if any, will mark that as the beginning of Civil War III.
For those not in the 'know' the 1st Civil War of the USA was also known as the Revolutionary War. It ended with the expropriation of property in the USA held by the Loyalists, and the expulsion or voluntary departure for Loyalists for British territory. The 2nd Civil War for the USA was the one that ended with Lee's surrender in 1865, more or less.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/12/2025 6:18 Comments || Top||

#5  As best I can tell, Congressman Seth Moulton is running for re-election 3 Nov 2025. Who thinks he will be re-elected?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/12/2025 6:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Seth is padding his numbers by counting Waffle House fights.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/12/2025 7:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Show me the receipts.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/12/2025 7:38 Comments || Top||

#8  This is the logic of anarcho-tyranny.

The state doesn't intervene against leftist marauders. But law enforcement will intervene if ordinary citizens dare interfere with looters' and arsonists' schemes, protecting the violent aggressors.

These are the statistics created by anarcho-tyranny.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 09/12/2025 9:48 Comments || Top||

#9  Who thinks he will be re-elected?

He district contains the northern suburbs of Boston, Anguper Hupomosing9418, and they’ve been sending him back to Congress every two years since 2015. I think him losing would require a dead girl and a live boy. Is his name on the Epstein lists?
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/12/2025 10:13 Comments || Top||

#10  One Waffle House close to me got shot up the other night by unknown gunmen passing by on the interstate. They weren't even on the property. I rather doubt the perps were on the conservative side.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/12/2025 12:10 Comments || Top||

#11  “ Moulton is a known liar, in addition to being a Democrat.”

Is there a difference?
Posted by: Clererong Thrump7713 || 09/12/2025 16:10 Comments || Top||

#12  Sure doesn't look like conservatives trying to destroy Portland along with most of the West coast.
Posted by: Oregon Dave || 09/12/2025 17:10 Comments || Top||


Rep. Ilhan Omar cruelly stomps on conservative activist Charlie Kirk''s legacy: ''Full of s--t''
[NYPOST] ''Squad'' Rep. Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side. She is a member of The Squad, and would like to make the country look a lot more like Mogadishu...
(D-Minn.) went on a cruel rant about murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk, scoffing at the notion that his core mission was to have a civil debate on politics.

''There are a lot of people who are talking about him [Kirk] just wanting to have a civil debate,'' Omar sneered to progressive outlet Zeteo. ''These people are full of s— and it's important for us to call them out while we feel anger and sadness''

Omar groused that the TurningPoint USA founder downplayed Saint George Floyd
...The patron saint of Minneapolis...
and opposed Juneteenth.

''There is nothing more f—ed up than to pretend that his words and actions haven't been recorded and in existence for the last decade or so,'' she added, further accusing Kirk of posting ''hateful rhetoric'' on social media.

Omar is far from the only Democrat or public official to have voiced an unsympathetic view of Kirk's murder.

On Wednesday, just hours after Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker laid blamed on President Trump for the conservative activist's death. ''Political violence unfortunately has been ratcheting up in this country,'' Pritzker told news hounds, referencing the recent murder of Minnesota's Democratic House speaker. ''I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country — I think the president's rhetoric often foments it.''

''We've seen the January 6th rioters who clearly have tripped a new era of political violence,'' Pritzker added, making no mention of the two liquidation attempts against Trump.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) blamed ''political rhetoric'' from ''both sides'' for Kirk's death

''Political violence is never the answer. It divides us. But also, I've got to say, political rhetoric, too, from both sides, often gets out of hand and it incites people to do things like this,'' Kelly argued on CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
Wednesday. The senator urged Americans to ''think about — our words and the consequences of them, you know, from both sides of the political spectrum.''
Posted by: Fred || 09/12/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1796 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Omar seems grumpy. Someone should ask her if her genitalia has been mutilated recently. Maybe we should ask her brother.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/12/2025 7:28 Comments || Top||

#2  They have absolutely no understanding what will happen if they keep this up.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/12/2025 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  This coming from the brother fucker....
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/12/2025 9:44 Comments || Top||


#5  ^From a cannon?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 09/12/2025 10:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Omar comes from a country where the people debate with old Kalashnikovs.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/12/2025 11:39 Comments || Top||

#7  She isn't a big enough person to do that; all she is able to do is lock arms tighter than her brother's pre-numps.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/12/2025 12:08 Comments || Top||

#8  So in other words, leftists have a right to never be offended but conservatives do not.

Go back to Somalia.
Posted by: no mo uro || 09/12/2025 14:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Keep in mind folks, the Minnesota FBI office has hidden her immigration crimes and the likelihood of the wanker terrorist's arrest is unlikely.

Everyone POS agent in the office should be fired and charged with conspiracy. My opinion.

Thanks to Wray and "show me the Epstein Kash" Patel.

Posted by: Woodrow || 09/12/2025 20:45 Comments || Top||




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