Nina Bookout of The Victory Girls noted that Representative Ilhan Omar Mynett (D-Somalia) believes that all of the fraud investigations in Minnesota are just political public relations stunts:
Ilhan Omar Claims Fraud And ICE Investigations Are Just PR Stunts
by Nina Bookout | Monday, January 12, 2026
Ilhan Omar will do her absolute best to spin her way out of the fraud issues blanketing Minnesota. Yesterday she, with a straight face, asserted that all the fraud cases are just PR stunts by the Trump Administration.
The administration says the surge has been necessary to conduct both immigration enforcement and to investigate a growing fraud scandal in the state, the cost of which federal prosecutors estimate could top $9 billion. The scandal dates back to 2021, when Biden administration Justice Department investigators first honed in on an at least $250 million COVID-era scam revolving around the Feeding Our Future program, a case that now includes more than 75 defendants.
Most of the defendants are of Somali descent, leading President Trump and other Republican lawmakers to focus attention on the state’s large Somali community, while threatening to suspend federal funding to the state across a broad array of programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, and child care funding.
She’s super tired of all this guys. We need to drop the subject and quit the investigations.
There’s just one problem with the Mrs Mynett’s claims: it seems that people are actually being convicted of fraud!
Nonprofit’s Leader Convicted of Siphoning Off $240 Million in Federal Food Aid
Aimee Bock was accused of overseeing a scheme that exploited lax pandemic-era controls, and reaped millions with fake invoices for nonexistent meals.
By David A. Fahrenthold | March 19, 2025
The leader of a Minnesota anti-hunger nonprofit was convicted in U.S. District Court on Wednesday of masterminding a brazen scheme that reaped more than $240 million in pandemic relief funds with a network of bogus food kitchens that billed the government for 91 million meals.Aimee Bock and Salim Said
The nonprofit’s leader, Aimee Bock, 44, was convicted by a jury of seven counts, including wire fraud and bribery. Another defendant, Salim Said — a 36-year-old who oversaw one of the bogus kitchens — was convicted of 20 counts, also including wire fraud and bribery.
When Ms. Bock was charged in 2022, federal prosecutors said her scheme was the largest known fraud against the government’s Covid-19 relief programs.
At least 70 people were charged in the scheme, and more than 40 have already pleaded guilty or been convicted. Last year, another case related to the same scandal made national news, when someone attempted to bribe a juror in a separate trial by leaving about $120,000 in cash at her home in a Hallmark gift bag. Five people were later charged with bribery in that case.
Although the state agency responsible for monitoring the school meal program repeatedly tried to cut off funds, the organization was not shut down until FBI raids and federal indictments in 2022. As of late 2025, out of 78 suspects indicted in the fraud, more than 50 had pled guilty. Another seven individuals were found guilty at trial, including the leader of the scheme, Aimee Bock, while many others awaited trial. As most perpetrators, excluding Bock, were Somali Americans, the scandal resulted in increased political attention on the community, including from the administration of Donald Trump.
Note that these fraud allegations, trials, and convictions were the result of investigations during the Biden Administration, not the evil President Trump. Apparently the lovely Mrs Mynett doesn’t believe that the Biden Administration was being fair to Somalis.
I guess that this isn’t much of a surprise: it seems that the state of Minnesota and city of Minneapolis are suing the federal government to stop enforcing our immigration laws as well.