Today s Star Tribune features a profile of Bock, the indicted mastermind of the free lunch fraud that we have been covering since this past January. The profile draws heavily on the reporters interview of her in the immediate aftermath of the FBI raids that made the scandal public. The only really new element is its mention of my friend Abdi Nur at the top of the story: Aimee Bock s organization
A huge Somali audience booed Ilhan Omar when she took the stage at Suldaan Seeraar s Target Center concert in downtown Minneapolis this past Saturday evening. She was unable to get in a word edgewise. What gives? Surely there is an interesting story there. We posted the video here first thing Sunday morning. The video went viral on Twitter. We followed up here in the post reporting that Omar left town
Guhaad Hashi Said s image instructing Somalis to keep quiet I lifted it from his Facebook page is the avatar I have used for this series. Long-time Power Line readers may recall that Hashi is Ilhan Omar s enforcer. That s how I first heard about him in the course of my initial reporting on Omar s marriage to her brother over five years ago. Preya Samsundar reported on Hashi in the
I embedded two of the three search warrants executed around the Twin Cities by the FBI on January 20 here (February 1) and here (February 2). The third is at the bottom of this post. If you have followed along so far, please don t miss this one. It focuses on Aimee Bock, the mastermind of the scheme implicating Feeding Our Future, and lays out the case in vivid detail including