{"id":8197,"date":"2026-05-19T09:25:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/?p=8197"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:25:03","slug":"from-americanthinker-com-minnesotas-house-of-fraud-yes-minnesotas-top-officials-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/2026\/05\/19\/from-americanthinker-com-minnesotas-house-of-fraud-yes-minnesotas-top-officials-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"From AmericanThinker.com: Minnesota’s house of fraud – Yes, Minnesota’s top officials knew."},"content":{"rendered":"

AmericanThinker.com: Is there a limit to how much corruption we will put up with? By the looks of things, apparently not.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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In Minnesota, recently incarcerated Aimee Bock, the woman behind the quarter\u00a0billion<\/em>\u00a0dollar \u201cFeeding Our Future\u201d fraud scandal, spoke to Fox News from her new prison digs, and stated what should be painfully obvious: Top Minnesota Democrats knew about the fraud all along.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/span>This is a genuinely significant story with actual documented evidence \u2014 not just Bock’s word against the state. Here is what the current record shows:<\/span><\/p>\n

What Bock Claimed<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Speaking to Fox News from Sherburne County Jail, Bock alleged that Governor\u00a0Tim Walz<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and Attorney General\u00a0Keith Ellison<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0were aware of widespread fraud because the state itself was responsible for approving program sponsors and monitoring claims. She claims she personally flagged suspicious organizations, and the state continued approving and paying them anyway \u2014 which, if true, shifts culpability well beyond her courtroom.<\/span><\/p>\n

What the Congressional Investigation Found<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Bock’s claim is not without documented support. The\u00a0House Oversight Committee<\/strong>,<\/span> led by Chairman\u00a0Jim Jordan<\/strong>,<\/span> released a report in March 2026 containing several damaging findings:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • The Minnesota Department of Education\u00a0(MDE) received fraud complaints about Feeding Our Future as early as 2018<\/strong><\/span>, years before the scheme reached its peak<\/span><\/li>\n
  • The\u00a0MDE notified the Governor’s office by April 2020<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0about its concerns<\/span><\/li>\n
  • The state stopped processing applications in November 2020, but after Bock filed a lawsuit,\u00a0resumed payments just one month after halting them in March 2021<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 and continued paying through January 2022, allowing hundreds of millions more to flow out<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Jordan alleged the resumption of payments amounted to not mere oversight failure but\u00a0“active assistance”<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2014 pointing to whistleblower warnings, race-based political pressure tactics used to silence investigators, and political donations made by Feeding Our Future-connected individuals<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The Political Connections Are Documented<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

    Wikipedia and court records establish the following verified connections:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    • Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s<\/strong>\u00a0aide,\u00a0Abdi Salah<\/strong><\/span>, pleaded guilty to wire fraud \u2014 Frey claims ignorance<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Minneapolis City Council Member Jamal Osman’s wife<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0operated a Feeding Our Future meal site that received\u00a0over $400,000 in funding<\/span><\/li>\n
    • State Senator Omar Fateh<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0maintained documented ties with Bock<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Nearly\u00a0half of the 60 people charged<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0in the fraud also held contracts with Minnesota’s Department of Human Services and other state agencies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      The Bock-from-Jail Complication<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

      Importantly, federal prosecutors filed court documents in April 2026 alleging that Bock herself\u00a0leaked sensitive, protected case materials from jail<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2014 using her own son to violate court orders and distribute documents to elected officials and reporters. This cuts both ways: it suggests she possesses documents she believes are damaging to state officials, but it also severely undermines her credibility as a cooperating source and raises the question of whether she is strategically managing her own narrative to reduce her sentence of up to\u00a033 years<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

      Bottom Line<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

      The corroborating evidence that state officials knew \u2014 or should have known \u2014 is real, documented, and under active congressional scrutiny. What remains unproven is whether that knowledge constituted criminal complicity or merely catastrophic bureaucratic negligence compounded by political cowardice. The distinction matters enormously \u2014 and is precisely what Jordan’s committee and ongoing federal proceedings are attempting to determine.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      AmericanThinker.com: Is there a limit to how much corruption we will put up with? By the looks of things, apparently not. In Minnesota, recently incarcerated Aimee Bock, the woman behind the quarter\u00a0billion\u00a0dollar \u201cFeeding Our Future\u201d fraud scandal, spoke to Fox News from her new prison digs, and stated what should be painfully obvious: Top Minnesota…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[119,151,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-democrats","category-government-accountability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ChatGPT-Image-May-19-2026-09_19_23-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8200,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197\/revisions\/8200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}