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I’ve written about the $250 million plus massive Somali welfare fraud in Minnesota before. And it was big.
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.
Bill Glahn in American Experiment found that, “Feeding Our Future had 312 authorized sites for the program, approved for a maximum of 126,000 children.” That’s a lot of hungry Somali kids.
When the case came to trial, they once again went big.
A juror in a Minneapolis trial related to $250 million in stolen pandemic aid reported that she had a sack with $120,000 in cash delivered to her door — and a note promising more if she voted to acquit.
Apparently they targeted her because she was young and a “woman of color”. Unfortunately for them she was something they weren’t: honest.
The Somalis bugged her car, followed her home and delivered the money. They asked her to find them not guilty and convince the remaining jurors to do so as well and she would get more money.
They gave her a list of arguments that included “we are immigrants, they don’t respect us” and the government “was prejudiced against people of color.”
She didn’t buy their racism hoax or take their cash. Or let them entrap her. And now they’re back in court instead.
Abdiaziz Farah told Nur to meet him at Bushra Wholesalers — Said Farah’s business — to pick up the bribe money on June 2. Ali then put the money in a Hallmark gift bag to be delivered.
At around 8:50 p.m. that night, Ali and Abdulkarim Farah went to Juror 52’s house. Ali gave the bag of $120,000 to a relative of the juror and explained the money was a gift in exchange for a not guilty verdict, court officials state. Ali said there would be more money if Juror 52 voted to acquit the defendants.
Prosecutors state Abdulkarim Farah stayed in the car and took a video of the interaction, later sending it to the co-conspirators using an encrypted messaging app.
Juror 52 called authorities when she found out about the bribery attempt.
They were gambling on the worst about Americans. Instead the jury showed its best.
I’ve read about the Feeding Our Future scandal but read nothing in our garbage “news media” about the bribe attempt. Thank goodness there are still some people out there with integrity or it never would have come to light. And thank you to Mr. Greenfield for giving this news wider circulation as he does with all of his reporting..
What were the juror’s against President Trump bribed with?
They didn’t have to be bribed. They knew their duty as “good Democrats” and/or feared for their futures in NYC if they voted otherwise.
I’m sure every single one of them was bribed (including the judge). How else would one obtain a unanimous guilty verdict on such patently false charges?
Yes, now do the Trump trials. Although Id wager those were serious death threats not bribes.
The juror showed her true “color.”