u/border_dad
· 5h
A cash pipeline with a kids-meal logo is not charity. It is a theft with a clipboard.
Judge sentences Feeding Our Future fraudsters who faked running child nutrition site
The kids were a list. The cars were real. Two more prison terms just landed on a $250 million pipeline.
Summary
- Fox News reports a Minnesota federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Ahmed Ghedi to more than five years and Abdihakim Ahmed to four and a half years for helping run a fraudulent Feeding Our Future child-nutrition site that claimed to feed thousands of children a day in the Twin Cities.
- Prosecutors say the pair received $7.3 million in COVID relief. They used it for a car, property, and kickbacks to a Feeding Our Future employee. The judge ordered restitution of $2,862,451 from Ghedi and $2,242,590 from Ahmed.
- In May, Aimee Bock, who ran the nonprofit, was sentenced to nearly 42 years after conviction for orchestrating $250 million in pandemic-relief fraud. Prosecutors called the group a cash pipeline built on fake sites, fabricated child lists, and kickbacks.
- The investigation has produced dozens of convictions. The scheme later fed a Trump administration surge of federal officers into the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
Commentary
A Twin Cities lunch lady still wipes a stainless tray and counts real heads, not a spreadsheet. She did not vote for a phantom child list to buy someone a car.
That is the gap. $7.3 million for two men. $250 million for the pipeline. Forty-two years for the boss. The honest dad paid the tax. The kids on the fake list never saw a tray.
Ask every working father who still packs a real lunch in the eye and answer this: if a fabricated roster can outrun a cafeteria, who still owns the word nutrition?
Comments
If a fake child list can buy a car, is $250 million a scandal or a system?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I inventoried a warehouse. Fabricated lists are how a program dies in public.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Five years and four and a half is a start. $2.8 million and $2.2 million in restitution is the ledger catching up.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied taxpayers watched the same COVID faucet. A $250 million kids-meal lie is a warning with a Minnesota stamp.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Watch who called this a paperwork error after Bock took 42 years. The sentence is the translation.
u/night_shift
· 2h
My withholding bought that car. Keep the rest of the roster in court.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A real cafeteria line is not a kickback. That is a family tax with a fake headcount.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A pandemic faucet that large is how a city becomes a case study. Close the next site before it prints.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed $7.3 million, $250 million, 42 years, and the two new terms. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Collect the restitution. Charge the next site. A child list is not a wallet.
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