“It’s all about the Benjamins, baby,” Ilhan Omar once observed about American politics regarding Israel. Perhaps that will get exposed as a symptom of malicious projection – on a billion-dollar scale.
The massive fraud in Omar’s congressional district, conducted within her Somali ex-pat power base, continues to collapse in federal court. US Attorney Joe Thompson has already won several convictions in the first trial, which then generated a new case of juror tampering and attempted bribery that has yet to be adjudicated. In the meantime, Thompson has opened a second trial of more suspected conspirators in the Feeding Our Future fraud, in which suspicions that federal funds got sent to the terror group al-Shabaab form part of the context around the case.
The first trial didn’t raise connections to Omar, although the import of the case among Omar’s core constituency certainly raised questions about the possibilities. The second trial has brought the fraud closer to Omar’s orbit, however, and the New York Post’s Chadwick Moore has asked the eternal political-scandal question – what did Omar know about the massive fraud, and when did she know it?
US Rep. Ilhan Omar’s close ties to the $1 billion welfare scam in her Minnesota congressional district are being uncovered.
Omar (D-Minn.) held parties at one of the key restaurants named in the fraud, knew one of its now-convicted owners, and one of her own staffers has also been convicted — both for stealing millions.
Omar even introduced the bill that led to $250 million in fraud. Yet she claims to have been completely unaware of it.
“[Rep. Omar] knew who these people were. People she personally knew were making tens of millions of dollars in this program,” claimed Bill Glahn, a policy fellow with the Minnesota-based Center of the American Experiment, to The Post.
Bill Glahn also contributes to Power Line, along with founders (and my friends) John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson. Power Line and the CAE were practically alone in exposing this fraud and covering the first trial among major media outlets, including the local Star Tribune, which mainly gave it the “isolated incident” treatment. They have relentlessly pursued Omar’s connection to this massive fraud conspiracy, which other Protection Racket Media outlets have studiously ignored or pooh-poohed solely on the basis of Omar’s denials.
Scott notes the breakthrough nature of Moore’s coverage today in brief:
Moore’s story is the first I have seen to note Omar’s connection to the convicted Feeding Our Future defendant Guhaad Hashi. As I have written on Power Line many times (see, e.g., “Omertà for Omar”), Hashi was Omar’s enforcer. A photo caption in Moore’s story accurately observes: “Guhaad Hashi Said worked on Omar’s 2018 and 2020 campaigns as an ‘enforcer overseeing voter mobilization in the Somali community. He pleaded guilty to running a fake food scheme and stealing millions from taxpayers.” I have used the thumbnail photo of Hashi (at right) instructing Somalis to shut up to accompany just about everything I have written on the Feeding Our Future case.
Yesterday, John noticed that the national scrutiny has also finally included another key public figure from MN-05 – Omar’s predecessor, Keith Ellison. Ellison is Minnesota’s Attorney General, and new evidence implicates him in at least a determined effort to ignore the fraud based in his former congressional district:
Attorney General Keith Ellison was omitted from the first burst of national publicity. We remedied that omission with a tweet last night, linking to a post that includes a 54-minute tape of Ellison meeting with Feeding Our Future figures, from some of whom he later got campaign contributions. Our tweet was retweeted by Elon Musk:
Outright criminal fraud https://t.co/kIhzuQWZ67
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2025
Musk actually retweeted it twice; Chris Rufo, Libs of TikTok and others retweeted it as well. And the White House linked to our site. So Ellison joins Tim Walz as politicians whose 2026 races are very much in doubt.
What did Ellison know about this fraud, and when did he know it? Glahn and CAE raised this issue in April:
Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s Attorney General, can clearly be heard pledging his support to individuals who would soon become his family’s campaign donors and later Feeding Our Future criminal defendants.
His recorded statements flatly contradict his contemporaneous public statements and raise uncomfortable questions about the intersection between political fundraising and constituent services.
American Experiment has exclusively obtained the complete 54-minute, 44-second audio file of a private December 2021 meeting between state Attorney General (AG) Keith Ellison and key figures in the Feeding Our Future scandal.
As I wrote last week, the audio file was named as Exhibit 710 on the evidence list presented to the court by Aimee Bock’s defense attorney, Kenneth Udoibok. The recording was not offered into evidence during the six-week trial that concluded last month, with Bock’s conviction on all seven counts she faced. A timeline of relevant events can be found here.
As a document, it exceeds expectations. Voices can be heard clearly and are clearly identifiable. The highlights, which are many, tend to be front-loaded. I’ve included below some clips from the meeting to highlight a few points.
Until very recently, all of these reports have gone into the Protection Racket Media void. We have linked to these developments and attempted to raise visibility into the massive fraud machine involving Minnesota’s highest-ranking elected officials. The vice-presidency campaign by Tim Walz should have prompted news outlets to take a harder look at the massive corruption taking place under his governance, but the national media was much more invested in Orange Man Bad coverage than in exposing actual corruption.
The mainstream media has finally begun taking notice, as Scott and John point out, but why now? Perhaps they are aware of how bad a candidate Walz will be for the Senate, his rumored ambition, or even more so for the 2028 presidential nomination. Or maybe the stink has just become to intense to ignore any longer. That stink is attached to Omar most of all, however, and except for Chadwick Moore, the Protectiom Racket Media is still circling its wagons around the anti-Semitic troll from MN-05.
How long can that last? Perhaps Joe Thompson will get the last word on that question.
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