Congresswoman Ilan Omar’s role in ‘Somali fraud’ scandal should be probed, nonprofit founder tells Arab News
CHICAGO: Aimee Bock, the founder of a Minnesota nonprofit convicted in a multimillion-dollar fraud involving dozens of Somali suspects, has told Arab News that federal investigators should investigate Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s role.
The Minnesota Democrat’s 5th District has the largest concentration of Somali Americans and much of the fraud convictions.
Evidence shows that fraudsters, mostly of Somali heritage, created shell companies and fake sites, and forged delivery counts of food provided to hundreds of thousands of children and families in order to boost reimbursements they received from the Minnesota Department of Education.
Bock, executive director of Feeding Our Future, which processed the payments, said she warned and provided evidence of the fraud to the MDE and state officials, but was ignored and later prosecuted as a “scapegoat.”
