[FoxNews] Individuals tied to Rep. Ilhan Omar, including a former campaign worker and associates of a Minneapolis restaurant she frequented, allegedly profited from the scheme
Members of the inner circle of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., personally profited from the $1 billion welfare fraud scandal in her district that has placed her Somali constituency under a White House microscope.
Omar held events at one of the restaurants named in the fraud, knew one of its now-convicted owners and had a staffer who was also convicted, the New York Post reported.
Omar also introduced the legislation that led to $250 million being defrauded from federal child-nutrition programs in COVID-19 aid, according to the newspaper.
Around $250 million in state funds was distributed beginning in 2020 to provide meals to schoolchildren during the pandemic. However, the money was allegedly pocketed by Salim Ahmed Said, the co-owner of Safari Restaurant, where Omar held her 2018 congressional victory party.
Said was convicted in March for his role in the scheme, with the Justice Department stating that the funds — intended to feed children — were used to finance a lavish lifestyle.
He spent much of the money on a $2 million Minneapolis mansion and a $9,000-per-month shopping habit at Nordstrom, according to prosecutors.
I can’t imagine how one spends that much at a mid-price department store like Nordstrom, which just shows I lack imagination.
The free meals were made possible by the 2020 MEALS Act, introduced by Omar and passed with bipartisan support, the Post said.
Much of the funding was funneled through the now-defunct nonprofit Feeding Our Future, according to the DOJ. Omar appeared in a video promoting the program.
The congresswoman has not been directly linked to the fraud. Fox News Digital has attempted to reach her office for comment.
"The alleged fraud scheme orchestrated by Feeding Our Future is reprehensible. Using the guise of feeding children to funnel millions of dollars toward extravagant expenses is abhorrent, and anyone who participated in this scheme must be held accountable," Omar told a local Minnesota news outlet at the time.
During an appearance on CNN this week, Omar was pressed to explain how fraud became so rampant within her state.
"I think what happened, um, is that, you know, when you have these kind of new programs that are, um, designed to help people, you're oftentimes relying on third parties to be able to facilitate. And I just think that a lot of the COVID programs that were set up — they were set up so quickly that a lot of the guardrails did not get created," she said.
In August, Guhaad Hashi Said, a Democratic activist and former Omar campaign official, pleaded guilty to running a fake food site, Advance Youth Athletic Development.
He claimed the group served 5,000 meals a day to children, pocketing millions, the Justice Department said.
Said worked on Omar's 2018 and 2020 campaigns as an "enforcer" who oversaw voter turnout efforts in the Somali community.
As of November, at least 78 defendants have been charged in what has widely been considered the largest pandemic relief fraud scheme in the United States.
The Trump administration has blamed Minnesota officials for the lack of oversight.
The Small Business Administration is investigating a network of Somali groups in Minnesota that it says is tied to the scandal and a House Oversight Committee has opened an investigation into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's role.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized Omar and blamed the Somali community for the scope of fraud occurring in Minnesota.
"These Somalians have taken billions of dollars out of our country," Trump told reporters. "They’ve taken billions and billions of dollars. They have a representative, Ilhan Omar, who they say married her brother. She should be thrown the hell out of our country.
"And most of those people, they have destroyed Minnesota. She should not be — and her friend shouldn't be allowed — frankly, they shouldn‘t even be allowed to be Congresspeople, OK? They shouldn't even be allowed to be Congresspeople because they don’t represent the interests of our country."
#5
The Somalias started coming to Minnesota en mass in the early 1990s. U.N. and U.S. forces pulled out of Somalia due to civil unrest; capped off by the Battle of Mogadisha. This occurred under Clinton.
[FoxNews] Clinton says the social media platform spread propaganda about the Gaza war since the Oct 7 attack
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that TikTok is largely to blame for the growing hatred of Israel and its war in Gaza among "smart, well-educated" young Americans.
During her appearance at the Israel Hayom Summit in New York City, Clinton lamented that so many young Americans have been inundated with anti-Israel propaganda on the social media platform.
"They are seeing short-form videos – some of them totally made up, some of them not at all representing what they claim to be showing – and that’s where they get their information," Clinton said.
Parrotting common wisdom.
An internal memo, written by a senior TikTok employee in its Israel office and obtained by Fox News Digital, highlighted in detail an unequal policy toward paid humanitarian campaigns pitched by Israeli families compared to anti-Israel groups, as well as a flippant, even biased, approach to organic content posted by users to the site that is graphically violent and deeply inciting.
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At this point, I just assume that she is lying and probably drunk.
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A supermajority consensus of Western political, intellectual, economic and military elites has taught these young people that masochistic appeasement and submission is the only acceptable paradigm vis-a-vis Islamic aggression.
The serious problem has been the lack of Western commitment to serious self-defense and self-preservation, not some retarded Chicom app.
#4
Hilda is still spouting nonsense. Hilda had a great deal to do with Benghazi. Anti-Israel views in this country have been going on for some time--long before TikTok.
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She's trying to find any sympathetic ear she can.
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^ She doesn't need sympathy. She just needs to STFU and go away. Doesn't she understand that she became irrelevant in 2016? Nobody cares anymore what she has to say.
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Prosperity is bypassing the youth and they are looking for scape goats. There's always been jew hate on the webz, but right now it is in trajectory to heights I have not seen since was the message board VOAT. But before, it was isolated to the board, now it is everywhere.
Jews have an optics problem with the youth. And the Qatari Lobbying money is not helping - here's looking at Owens, Tucker, Fuerntes.
[FoxNews] Ex-New York official Linda Sun once boasted to Chinese consular officials that then–Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul was more compliant than Gov. Andrew Cuomo, prosecutors allege
A former top New York state official accused of spying for China once remarked that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was "much more obedient" than former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Linda Sun
… (Sun Wen 孙雯), former deputy chief of staff to New York Governor Kathy Hochul and notorious CCP spy…
made the remark after she convinced Hochul, who served as Cuomo’s lieutenant governor at the time, to film a Lunar New Year video touting China’s New York consulate, the New York Post reported, citing evidence presented at Sun's corruption trial.
"She is much more obedient than the governor," Sun wrote to China consular official Lihua Li in a Jan. 25, 2021, message shown to jurors in Brooklyn federal court.
Minutes later, Sun texted Huang Ping, who headed the consulate office at the time.
"The deputy governor listens to me more than the governor does," she allegedly wrote, prosecutors said.
Chinese officials had asked for Cuomo to film the video, but Sun told them she could likely get Hochul to participate instead, prosecutors said.
"Let me ask, but likely the LG can probably do it," Sun replied to Li, referring to Hochul.
"That would be great as well. Thanks," Li responded.
In the two-minute video, Hochul wishes everyone a happy Lunar New Year and talks about the "privilege" of working with the Chinese American community and the Chinese consular office. Fox News Digital has reached out to Hochul's office.
Sun, who also served under Hochul, is charged with violating and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act, visa fraud, alien smuggling and money laundering conspiracy.
Prosecutors from the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office believe Sun acted on behalf of the Chinese government on a number of occasions, including seeking a high-level state visit to China and preventing representatives of the Taiwanese government from meeting with American officials.
In 2023, Sun was fired from her position after "evidence of misconduct" was discovered. She is accused of doing favors for Chinese officials in exchange for millions of dollars in business funneled to her husband, Chris Hu, who conducted business in China.
Hu and Sun are accused of using the money to buy property on Long Island and in Honolulu worth more than $6 million, in addition to a 2024 Ferrari Roma sports car.
[FoxNews] Tom Tiffany will send a letter to Gov. Tony Evers after he balked at USDA's audit request
Minnesota’s Democrat-led neighbor could be missing a chance to prevent a Feeding Our Future–style crisis, Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., warned Thursday.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has faced widening scrutiny over a fraud scheme in which members of the Twin Cities’ Somali community allegedly diverted taxpayer-funded meal money overseas, including to terror group Al-Shabaab.
Tiffany, who is running to be Wisconsin’s governor in 2026, slammed retiring incumbent Democratic Gov. Tony Evers for prominently rebuking the Trump administration’s efforts to conduct audits of SNAP — food stamp — programs in the 50 states.
On Thursday, Tiffany’s office shared a letter with Fox News Digital that he planned to send to Evers later in the day.
"Like many Wisconsin residents, I was disappointed by your recent public statements ruling out cooperation with the federal government to detect fraud in the food stamp program," Tiffany wrote. "We should all be able to agree that fraud and abuse in vital safety net programs is unacceptable, which is why I hope you will reconsider your position.
"Your position on this matter is even more shocking given recent developments in our neighboring state of Minnesota. There, the governor’s mismanagement and lack of transparency in food security programs have led to multiple investigations of a taxpayer-funded fraud scheme totaling a staggering $1 billion that allegedly involved Somalian terrorists."
The Minocqua congressman said failure to police SNAP abuses jeopardizes the program's longevity and ability to serve the Wisconsinites who legally rely on it and that withholding such information is "effectively prioritizing the ability of scammers and illegal aliens to bilk this program.
"This makes no sense," he added.
Earlier Thursday, Tiffany took to social media to castigate Evers for balking at USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins' request.
Tiffany’s post was explicitly responding to Evers’ recent interview with Matt Smith of Milwaukee’s ABC affiliate, who had asked him about his refusal to let the USDA audit the food stamp program.
Smith paraphrased Rollins' critiques of SNAP as a "broken program full of bad things," adding that Rollins pointed out that 29 states agreed to give federal officials access to investigate fraud.
"That system is analyzed every single year, and we feel confident in it," Evers told Smith. "The idea they’re asking for this information; they're looking for ways to get out of doing it, frankly. And that is inappropriate."
Evers said the request was inappropriate given that his state has families who rely on the program to ensure proper, nutritious meals.
Near the end of November’s government shutdown, Evers also balked at the Trump administration’s request that states undo payments to programs like Wisconsin’s FoodShare in light of the USDA canceling monthly disbursements until the government reopened.
Wisconsin and several prominent blue states, including Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Washington, California, New York and New Jersey — as well as Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro given that state’s Republican Attorney General David Sunday was not on board — wrote a letter to the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston asking it to stop Trump’s SNAP-back effort.
When Evers and other governors received a response from the administration demanding they yank payments, Evers responded with a statement that contained a single-worded first lin, "No."
Other Wisconsin Republicans also defended the USDA, with Rep. Bryan Steil of Kenosha telling The Center Square that the Badger State’s food stamp recipients were the ones being hurt by Democrats’ longtime refusal to reopen the government.
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Sue, get an injunction, lose in court and then comply. That’s the process. The Dems will follow the process with the understanding that the resistance will energize their voters to take the House and waste the last two years of Trump. It will look a lot like these first two years with more baloney.
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[WFB] This POS was just moralizing about Hegseth's "War crimes", but nothing about bribes and corruption, ..yet
Moulton's congressional work directly intersects with Schmidt’s business ventures
Billionaire tech mogul and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt flew Massachusetts Senate hopeful Seth Moulton (D.) and his family to a ritzy Montana retreat to rub shoulders in a "strictly confidential" setting with other policymakers, celebrities, and foreign dignitaries. All the while, Moulton sat on a powerful House committee with oversight of many of Schmidt’s business interests.
According to financial disclosures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, Schmidt’s eponymous nonprofit paid for the Moulton family’s airfare, lodging, and food at his annual Yellowstone weekend summer retreat in 2021, 2022, and 2023, with just one exception—the disclosures state that Moulton paid for his own airfare in 2023. The retreat is held at the exclusive Yellowstone Club, home to multimillion-dollar mansions, a private ski mountain, and a golf course. Standalone homes there go for at least $20 million.
Moulton’s work directly intersects with Schmidt’s business ventures. In addition to leading Google for a decade, Schmidt serves as a founding partner of Innovation Endeavors, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage tech and AI startups. Schmidt is also the chairman of SandboxAQ, an AI and quantum computing startup that reached a $5.6 billion valuation last year.
Schmidt also chaired the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which published a sprawling final report in 2021. The report cited Moulton’s work with the Future of Defense Task Force, a fact Moulton noted when he lobbed a softball question to Schmidt during a congressional hearing about AI.
That hearing came just four months before Moulton’s first trip to Schmidt’s Yellowstone weekend retreat.
Since it was first held over a decade ago, the retreat has been shrouded in secrecy—the full list of its attendees and details of its activities are closely guarded. In internal documents reviewed by the Free Beacon, the retreat’s itinerary includes "sessions," "lightning round sessions," and "activities," offering few additional details. Eric Lander, who served as former president Joe Biden’s top science adviser, attended the Schmidt confab in 2021, Fox News reported. Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) and celebrities like Lady Gaga and Ashton Kutcher attended in previous years, according to reports.
The junkets could pose conflict-of-interest concerns for Moulton, given his position overseeing the military's use of emerging technologies. Moulton, who announced a primary challenge against incumbent Sen. Ed Markey in October, serves on the House Armed Services Committee and is a member of its Cyber Innovation Technology and Information Systems subcommittee. That subcommittee has taken the lead on shaping the military’s cooperation with the private sector on AI and other cutting-edge technologies.
Moulton was also named co-chair of the Future of Defense Task Force assembled in 2019. One year later, the task force published a report with a series of recommendations for how the United States can boost innovation to address future national security threats—its first recommendation was that the United States deploy a Manhattan Project-like strategy to lead the world in AI development.
In recent years, meanwhile, Moulton has emerged as one of the most vocal lawmakers on the issue of AI development and AI regulation.
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They have to put forward a bunch of extra effort now that the Epstein operation is shut down.
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a Manhattan Project-like strategy
These people are morons.
I can think of $38T reasons why we can't do ANY Manhattan Projects for at least a generation.
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And if you think that someone inside a house like that can hear somebody shouting from a car, you are retarded.
Walz is, though, emotionally/sexually retarded, so it is probably a bit stinging and also does the human shield thing, hiding behind people with actual challenges.
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I could cede ruthless, opportunistic, but still just a cog, and a sloppy one at that, in a built in system; the face man.
But I am in the camp that the George Floyd deal was a planned op waiting for a marketable instance; Walz was just along for the ride. Line his pockets, secure the machine hold on Minnesota, sure, but certainly not his contraption.
And real creepers, gooners as the kids say, are pretty easy to spot which is why they throw up shields like, "Male Feminist".
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[FoxNews] Individuals tied to Rep. Ilhan Omar, including a former campaign worker and associates of a Minneapolis restaurant she frequented, allegedly profited from the scheme
[FoxNews] Clinton says the social media platform spread propaganda about the Gaza war since the Oct 7 attack
[FoxNews] Ex-New York official Linda Sun once boasted to Chinese consular officials that then–Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul was more compliant than Gov. Andrew Cuomo, prosecutors allege
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