What is it with Minnesota? Something in the air? Something in the water of those 10,000 lakes? Or is it the (let’s say this softly) Third World people from low-trust cultures that they have been so freely importing? Whatever it is, Minnesota seems to be Fraud Central Station, and now we see another Minneapolis resident has been busted and is facing charges. This one is alleged to have engaged in a million-dollar Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) fraud rip-off.
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Authorities in Minnesota have filed criminal charges against a man accused of a food stamp fraud scheme that defrauded taxpayers out of over $1 million.
Abdidwahid Mohamed, the owner of Minnesota Food Grocery LLC, allegedly used EBT cards registered to others to purchase items at Sam’s Club and Costco in 2021 before turning around and reselling them in his store, Fox 9 Minneapolis reported.
Authorities in Hennepin County say they observed Mohamed making purchases and followed him back to his store with the goods. Surveillance footage and GPS data backed this up, while investigators noted that many of the EBT cardholders were either out of the country or say they never shopped at the stores he used.
“Out of the country?” One wonders if some of them have ever been in the country.
The Republican challenging Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05) in this year’s midterm elections, Dalia al-Aqidi, was quick to pounce.
“Minneapolis didn’t become America’s fraud capital by accident,” Dalia al-Aqidi, a Republican running for Congress in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District against Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., told Fox News Digital. “It was earned. This week, it’s a grocer charged with running up $1.1 million in charges on other people’s EBT cards. Next week, it will be something else, but the bill always lands on the Minnesotans who actually pay taxes.”
Aqidi says that families tell her “affordability” is what “keeps them up night” and the “cruel joke is that the money is here to really make a difference for people.”
“It is just lining the wrong pockets and paying for luxury cars and houses on the other side of the world. The fraudsters are only half the story. The other half are the people administering these programs, from the front lines all the way up to Ilhan Omar, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Governor Tim Walz. There has been talk about ending fraud in Minnesota for years. I am going to Washington to actually do it.”
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That last part is something of a long shot; al-Aqidi was also Rep. Omar’s Republican opponent in 2024 and lost by almost a 3-1 margin. To call this a safe Democratic district is to engage in a gross understatement.
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Still, this goblin was caught, it seems by local authorities, and that’s good. But how many more are out there? How many people, imported from low-trust societies where fraud and graft are accepted as normal, are reverting to their old ways right here, in the United States?
This is a big issue for the midterms, and it won’t work in the Democrats’ favor. The GOP would be smart to keep this message going, to publicize every fraudster caught and charged – and to note how much they ripped off.
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