She collected $2.4 million in taxpayer money, but spent less than $2,000 on food.
You may remember the $250 million Feeding Our Future scandal out of Minnesota, and if you don’t, here’s a brief primer.
The pandemic unleashed a fraud tsunami. Especially in Minnesota where the rules were relaxed and a coalition of fraudsters, many of them Somali, began claiming that they were feeding millions of kids through a nonprofit known as Feeding Our Future.
In 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed $3.4 million in taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020, that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021. These were impressive numbers for a charity that seemed to focus on Somalis in Minnesota.
The number eventually shot up to $250 million.
The initial case made headlines when a juror received a $120,000 bribe.
Now a 71th suspect in the $250 million fraud case was caught fleeing the country.
The FBI arrested Hibo Daar at MSP before she could board that flight to Dubai. Court records show Daar claimed to serve 1 million meals to children while operating out of an office in a business center on East Hennepin Avenue. She collected $2.4 million in taxpayer money, but federal investigators believe her meal site, “Northside Wellness,” was fake and that she actually spent less than $2,000 on food.
In those meal counts, the complaint says that by April 2021, Daar claimed to be serving about 40,000 meals to children every week.
Daar’s lawyer said in court that the defendant was traveling to visit her sick mother. But then she got caught in a lie, claiming she hadn’t traveled overseas since 2022. The prosecutors pulled out Daar’s passport and showed she had been traveling regularly since then.
Frankly, we should have let her go on the condition that she and her whole family and all their relatives give up their U.S. citizenship.
BTeboe says
Lock her up. Once sentence is complete deport the fam damily.
RegT says
Yes. And Ilhan Omar (not her real name, only used to surreptitiously marry her own brother to gain citizenship) should be arrested for her relationship – as a foreign agent of Yemen (purportedly giving them information gained by her position in Congress) and after HER serving a long sentence, deported back to Somalia. She has stated in public that her loyalty is to Somalians, not to America.
JOHN says
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
somehistory says
If she spent any on food, it was probably so she could eat hearty.
Make her pay back every cent….and that should go for all of the other scum who collecting extortion, lining their dirty pockets and laughing up their sleeves at the gullible.
i elmi should be put on the grill for these crimes committed by the people for whom she is a *rep* in Congress. Then find a way to send her and the whole lot of them packing back to somalia.
40 rounds says
Spent a couple of years in Minnesota and I have to tell the white population are the most gullible people you will ever meet
GE says
I lived there for several years too, and I have to say I agree with you.
John1 says
Hope they feed her 🥓 bacon for breakfast, Spam for lunch, and pork chops for dinner. But being in Minnesota, they’ll probably pay for catered halal food for her, and allow her Akbar headgear.
somehistory says
Those foods are too good for her. If you want her to eat pork products, give her sausage using the real deal…intestines….the snout, tail and feet. One needs a special *taste* for those.
Big Dude says
i think she may have been given the go ahead by her Squad. What is the relation between this squad and this exemplar of. …. Is the Squad involved
somehistory says
i elmi, alias, i omar, had her photo taken with those moz scums who committed the fraud…grinning and campaigning and congratulating them., in the pretend ‘lunchroom.’
Patriot64 says
Give her trial of her peers. If she’s found guilty and after her prison sentence deport her and all of her relatives.
gravenimage says
Her peers–Muslims–would find her innocent and insist that the filthy Infidels apologize and give her more money.
gravenimage says
Somali Muslim Migrant Who Lied About Feeding 1,000,000 Meals to Kids Caught Fleeing U.S…
In those meal counts, the complaint says that by April 2021, Daar claimed to be serving about 40,000 meals to children every week.
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I assume she lived in Minneapolis, which has a population of 425,115 as of 2023. So that would have meant that she was feeding almost 1 in 10 who live in the city, and about 1 in 5 children who live in the Twin Cities area.
This is a *huge* number, and would have involved enormous logistics, and should have set off alarm bells almost at once.
40 rounds says
Yeah, you’d think someone in charge would have done the math, but alas, other people’s money
somehistory says
i elmi, alias omar, had a hand in it….and if no moz scum were making government decisions, then those making those decisions, were in fear of being called ‘phobes.’ And perhaps getting some back.
Remember the jury member whose father was met at his home and given money for the jury member. The guilty may have been bribing others to keep their eyes shut to the crimes.
gravenimage says
+1
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Given what DOGE has discovered about the number of entities receiving huge amounts of money w/o anyone even being there to defend it, this scam is not remotely surprising. Essentially, nobody was looking at the recipients, but just auto-wiring money to anyone who asked for any reason
Thinker1 says
The criminality should be sufficient reason to strip them of citizenship and throw them out.
Hank says
How do they just walk in from some patch in Somalia, bring the whole village, and then get citizenship?
Donna says
I’m sure all that money is out of our country and supplying jihadis..we’re our own worst enemy. Brainwashed demoncrat Minnesota! Unfortunately it’s happening in Texas too! We’re screwed
somehistory says
Not all of it. They needed some to bribe witnesses, jury members, politicians and any others who they may believe will get them off.
And the one in the article needed some to try fleeing back to Africa. Others may be doing the same.
And then, the women have to keep some scarf money and the males need some to buy little girls.
Pray Hard says
Yeah, sure, let’s her up and keep her here so we can pay her attorney’s fees, living expenses, medical care, special food, incarceration, etc., etc., etc. Gotta keep the cash flow rolling in to those attorneys, judges, guards, police, prisons, etc. Different idea: Seize all of her and her family’s assets and deport all of them forever.
Kevin Kraemer says
It just shows how easy that we the people are manipulated into giving $ for the “children!”
OLD GUY says
YES, but who in our government is charged with regulating the funding and following up that our TAX DOLLARS are being spent correctly? This kind of outrages fraud should NEVER be allowed to happen.
“Some people did something” and our government officials are at fault.
StacyGirl says
Bingo. Congress is inept or involved. We’ve seen that one man, Elon Musk , can do the jobs of 535 congressional lackeys.
James Lincoln says
How come things like this never happened in the United States back in, say, 1960?
gravenimage says
Damn good question, James.
vincent cooper says
Why blame the Muslima?
Why are western people so gullible. Handing dosh over to Muslims?
Gimme a break.
One more question. Why was the Muslima even in the country?