[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The founder of a Minnesota nonprofit embroiled in a $250 million COVID-era meal fraud scheme is claiming that Representative Ilhan Omar knew about the plot.
Aimee Bock, founder of the Feeding Our Future Organization, says she does not believe that 'state and federal officials' did not know about the fraud.
The former nonprofit leader is accusing Omar of helping loosen the regulation that allowed Somali-owned businesses, including restaurants, to falsify the number of meals that they served to school-age patrons during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bock, who has been convicted of conspiracy, bribery, and wire fraud in conjunction with the meal scheme, is facing up to 100 years in prison. She has denied taking part in the fraud and claimed she tried to 'warn' lawmakers.
In a video interview conducted from jail, Bock told the New York Post of Omar, 'I struggle to believe that she wouldn't have known.'
Bock also told the Post, 'The notion that I'm personally responsible for all of it... is so frustrating. I'm the only white person out of 80 or 90 individuals [charged in the fraud]. I'm the only one that doesn't speak the language.'
She is alleging that Omar, who introduced the MEALS Act in 2020, designed the bill to make it easier to waive meal requirements in schools during the pandemic. As a result, there were fewer in-person inspections, she claims, and Somali restaurants started getting in on the multimillion-dollar scam.
Omar told the Daily Mail that 'the MEALS Act was signed into law by President Trump and passed with bipartisan support as part of a broader legislative package. Trump's USDA Secretary set the regulatory framework during the rollout of the program. I have always championed feeding kids and will continue to ensure our children do not go hungry.'
Addressing the validity of Bock's claims, Omar also noted, 'It is not surprising that a convicted fraud mastermind, a proven liar who got rich pretending to feed hungry children, would make such a disgusting and false accusation days ahead of her sentencing. Any claim that I had knowledge of this scheme is flat-out false.'
Bock also pointed out that the Safari restaurant, one of the involved Somali eateries, was where Omar held her election party in 2018.
Omar, a member of the Somali community in Minnesota, has fallen under increased scrutiny this year after a highly publicized crackdown on fraud in her home state.
In her statement to the Daily Mail, Omar also revealed that 'the moment this fraud came to light, I immediately sent a letter to the USDA Secretary demanding answers and accountability. As I stated from the beginning, stealing millions of dollars under the guise of feeding hungry children to bankroll lavish lifestyles and extravagant expenses is reprehensible.'
'I'm grateful that Aimee Bock and every individual involved in this abhorrent scheme are being held accountable for defrauding taxpayers and betraying vulnerable children,' Omar concluded.
A wild million-dollar 'mistake' on her financial disclosure form also raised eyebrows earlier this spring, when she and her husband Tim Mynett revealed in an amended filing that they share a total amount of assets between $18,004 to $95,000.
That is a stark difference from the range of assets estimated between $6 million and $30 million that the duo filed in a previous financial disclosure.
Congressional financial disclosures do not contain exact amounts, only ranges. Omar was scrutinized by the non-partisan Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC) for the initial error-filled filing.
A DC lawyer representing Omar sent a letter to the OCC stating that the erroneous filing was not done on purpose.
'As the busiest of people, it is very common for members and their spouses to rely on learned professionals like accountants to make calculations and determinations that appear on public filings,' the letter said, per the Wall Street Journal.
'While the error is of course unfortunate, there is nothing untoward and nothing illegal has occurred.'
'The amended disclosure confirms what we've said all along: The Congresswoman is not a millionaire,' said Jacklyn Rogers, a spokesman for Omar, earlier this month. 'The Congresswoman amended her disclosures voluntarily as soon as the discrepancy was identified.'
The discrepancy reportedly came from an accountant working with Mynett's businesses, California-based winery eStCru Wines and his venture-capital management firm Rose Lake Capital.
Omar claimed that she simply trusted the number that was given to her and didn't question it.
Federal prosecutors have noted that at least 57 people connected with the Feeding Our Future program billed the federal government $250 million, claiming to buy meals for children during the COVID pandemic.
Instead, the defendants allegedly used the stolen money to buy Lamborghinis, Porsche SUVs, beachfront property in Kenya and private villas in the Maldives. The vast majority of those convicted in the case are Somali.
Investigators then found that around $9 billion in federal Medicaid funds supporting 14 Minnesota programs since 2018 may have been stolen, US Attorney Joe Thompson announced on December 18.
Eighty-two of the 92 defendants in the child nutrition, housing services, and autism program scams are Somali, prosecutors have said.
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I want Omar to go to trial to see whether her lawyers claim that she is too stupid to be charged with a crime. They would have a lot of evidence to support that defense. World War Eleven was a classic.
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More political bullshit. If it was you or me, we would be in jail awaiting trial. But not her. So either this is all lies, or our political class is protecting her for political hay making. Either way our director of the FBI is complicit. The MAGA republicans will drag this on for years, just to divide and get votes without any concern for justice. Charge her or stop talking about it!
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
05/19/2026 10:04 Comments ||
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Actually, what Bock said was there was no way Omar couldn't have known. Not exactly the same thing.
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05/19/2026 11:46 Comments ||
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even if Omar knew the general details of the fraud, she hasn't committed a crime by not telling the authorities
if she knew specific details about crime that was ongoing maybe she could be charged with conspiracy but I think even that is doubtful
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
05/19/2026 12:30 Comments ||
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Face it. As a member of "The Squad", an African-American Somali, and a Democrat, NOTHING is going to happen to her. Even if someone finds a videotape of her accepting money, directing the creation of a Learing Center, witnessed and certified by multiple unimpeachable witnesses, nothing will happen to her. If someone tries, she will just scream RACIST, ISLAMOPHOBE, weaponization of the DOJ until it goes away.
[FoxBusinessNews] The U.S. Department of Justice has formally asked a federal court to dismiss criminal charges against Gautam Adani, an Indian billionaire accused of misleading U.S. and global investors while raising billions of dollars to finance a major solar energy project in India.
Adani, considered one of Asia’s richest individuals, allegedly promised to pay more than $250 million in bribes to Indian officials to secure lucrative contracts. He and his executives further raised money from investors by falsely claiming the company maintained strict anti-corruption policies — all while allegedly continuing the bribery scheme and later attempting to conceal the evidence, prosecutors alleged in 2024.
Despite the severity of the allegations, the Justice Department has requested the case be dismissed "with prejudice," indicating that the charges would be permanently dropped and may not be brought again in the future, according to court records filed Monday. Adani Group has denied the allegations, calling them baseless.
"The Department of Justice has reviewed this case and has decided, in its prosecutorial discretion, not to devote further resources to these criminal charges against individual defendants," prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
[Breitbart] Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party suffered a historic defeat in Sunday’s regional elections in Andalucía, which once stood as a bastion of far-left politics in the country.
The largest local "autonomous community" government in the country, Andalucía, was previously governed by the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) for nearly four decades, from 1982 to 2018.
However, the devolved administrative government now appears to be solidly in control of the political right, as the PSOE saw its lowest vote share ever on Sunday at just 22.7 per cent, public broadcaster RTVE reported. The result will equate to just 28 seats in the 109-seat local legislature, down from 30 in 2022, 33 in 2018, and 47 in 2015.
The failed socialist campaign was led by María Jesús Montero, a former Finance Minister and longtime ally of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, both of whom have been dogged by corruption allegations.
Following the announcement of the results, Montero admitted that her party had fallen short, saying simply, "We take note."
"The citizens place us in the opposition, and from there we are going to exercise," she added.
In addition to the ongoing scandals involving alleged corruption at both the national and local levels against the PSOE, the drubbing also comes in the wake of January’s tragic high-speed train crash near Adamuz, in the province of Córdoba in Andalucía.
While investigations continue, public sentiment has widely blamed the Socialist government in Madrid, which oversees trains and rail infrastructure nationwide.
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I wonder if Andalusia has an administrative state that will continue to follow their own policy as if nothing has changed.
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[Breitbart] Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party suffered a historic defeat in Sunday’s regional elections in Andalucía, which once stood as a bastion of far-left politics in the country.
