How They Did It…Former Fed Prosecutor Reveals How 'Shockingly Easy' It Was To Pull Off MN Fraud Scam

Posted • December 12, 2025: As we’ve reported, federal prosecutors have uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota’s federally funded food child nutrition programs, where scammers – many of them of Somalian descent – allegedly ripped off over a billion dollars from taxpayers. Some are predicting the end of Gov. Tim Walz’s political career, as this went down under his watch, and it’s been revealed that Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05) held her campaign victory party in 2018 at a restaurant owned by a man who was convicted in March on 21 counts related to the scandal, including wire fraud, federal programs bribery and money laundering. Not a good look. What’s stunning about these massive crimes is just how easy they were to pull off, according to former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab, who worked on the Feeding Our Future case. Feeding Our Future was the non-profit that claimed to provide meals to low‑income children, but in reality, was just taking the money and running off with it.

Teirab, who ran for Congress as a Republican in 2024 but lost to a Democrat in the deep blue state, said all you needed was a computer and the ability to lie at will. —— Joe Teirab @JoeTeirab: “Tim Walz and Keith Ellison enabled Minnesota’s unprecedented fraud. I was proud to help prosecute it as a federal prosecutor.” —— The corruption ran so deep that Teirab thinks the dollar amount may go up – to at least two billion dollars. It was a simple plan: "So the bottom line of this scandal was this: that there were supposed to be these different organizations, like Feeding Our Future, they were supposed to be a sponsor of different food sites that would give out food to kids who purportedly need it," Teirab said. "And so this Feeding Our Future was supposed to be the watchdog of these food sites. But they were not doing that at all. They were basically getting kickbacks from these sites that were supposed to be giving up food. That was totally false. And they were ginning up the numbers and saying that they fed 3,000 kids a day when they actually maybe fed zero or maybe three kids." (…)

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Fox News: Minnesota’s fraud scandal was ‘shockingly easy’ to pull off, is likely worse than reported: ex prosecutor
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minnesotas-fraud-scandal-was-shockingly-easy-to-pull-off-is-likely-worse-than-reported-ex-prosecutor