Feeding Our Future

Somali fraudsters have bribed jurors.

Judges overturned guilty verdicts.

Politicians lobby to keep payments going when fraud was suspected.

BILLIONS STOLEN.

Minnesota Democrats have become the modern-day mob. pic.twitter.com/lL9fYrGnks

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) December 29, 2025

Scam 1: FEEDING OUR FUTURE -- THE LARGEST COVID-19 FRAUD CASE CHARGED IN THE COUNTRY

- Claimed to serve children millions of free meals during COVID—few, if any, were ever fed
- Submitted fake invoices and fake rosters of kids purportedly receiving meals
- 78 defendants charged…

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 29, 2025

… to date | 57 defendants convicted
- 72 of the defendants are of Somalian descent | 5 defendants are currently fugitives in Africa
- Millions of taxpayer dollars in fraud proceeds were sent overseas to East Africa and the Middle East -Ultimate price tag? $300-400 million.

In August, we successfully secured the conviction of the Feeding Our Future scheme leader, Abdiaziz Shafii Farah.

- Farah was sentenced to 28 years in prison and ordered to pay over $47 million in restitutionhttps://t.co/w4gwus6LTy

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 29, 2025

And just last month, we sentenced Abdimijad Mohamed Nur -- another key player in the Feeding Our Future scheme -- to 10 years in federal prison and ordered him to pay millions in restitution

- And the crimes in this case don’t end here . . . ⬇️https://t.co/xJgkM0MZWK

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 29, 2025

Scam 2: JUROR BRIBERY

Not unlike what you would see in the corrupt Somali judicial system, defendants in the Feeding Our Future case intimidated a cooperating defendant and attempted to bribe jurors

- 3 defendants delivered a bag containing $120,000 in cash to a juror’s house…

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 29, 2025

… the night before closing arguments
- They promised more money if the juror voted to acquit all 7 trial defendants
- They offered this argument: “We are immigrants; they don’t respect or care about us”

Scam 2: JUROR BRIBERY (continued)

According to the defendants, “[T]he government kept attacking Somali culture . . . [and] was very racist.”
- This claim is ludicrous: the government was fighting the unprecedented level of fraud being committedhttps://t.co/8SRiNFZu2p

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 29, 2025

Scam 3: AUTISM TREATMENT MEDICAID SCHEME

-Many defendants from the Feeding Our Future scam also set up fake “autism clinics”
-Parents in the Somali community reported their children diagnosed as autistic, brought them into daycares disguised as “clinics,” and received huge…

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 29, 2025

… financial kickbacks
-The state government program underwriting this scam was supposed to cost $20 million.
Somehow, it ballooned to $200 million…at taxpayers’ expense