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A restaurant claimed six thousand kids a day. The FBI counted forty.

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Minnesota saw the red flags and stamped them anyway.

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Fake children ate real tax dollars while the state slept.

BRIEFING

Grant here. There’s a recent controversy that was uncovered in Minnesota that’s not just simply a “scandal” or a “misstep,” but it’s basically systemic rot dressed up as public service. Let’s break it down.

A single Somali restaurant in Minneapolis pulled $12 million dollars out of a federal child meal program by claiming it fed four thousand to six thousand kids a day. However, the FBI checked the tapes, and most days maybe forty people walked through the door.

To make matters worse, this wasn’t the only operation running the same hustle. A Saint Paul deli, run by the same defendant, claimed eighteen hundred meals per day. But surveillance footage showed an average of twenty-three people walking in and out. The whole fraudulent setup was held together with fake names, fake rosters, and random-name generator websites used to fabricate entire classrooms of phantom children.

The worst part about all of this is not just the fraud. After all, fraudsters exist everywhere. The truly disturbing part of this story is that the state machinery that was supposed to stop this never even tapped the brakes. Minnesota’s Department of Education saw the red flags: they saw the impossible meal counts, the reimbursement spikes, and the absurd paperwork. But yet, they signed off anyway. And at the top of that negligent pyramid sat Governor Tim Walz, who claimed he knew nothing while millions vaporized under his nose.

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Somalian restaurant in Minneapolis took $12 million in federal child meal payments

They said they were feeding 4,000-6,000 kids a day. They only averaged 40 people during 6 weeks

They created fake names and invoices, Minneapolis Department of Education was aware and did nothing

“The FBI installed a surveillance camera overlooking this building just off Lake Street in Minneapolis. At the time, it was Safari Restaurant, which overall took in $12 million in federal child meal payments — Safari claimed to feed 4,000 to 6,000 kids a day. Its invoices and meal counts shown to the jury alongside the video.

An FBI agent testifying that an average of 40 people came and went during the six weeks it was surveilled. The FBI set up a total of 12 cameras at sites claiming to serve extraordinary numbers of meals.

Another was at a deli in Saint Paul, also registered by defendant Salim Sayyed, which claimed 1,800 meals per day. The video shown to the jury showed an average of 23 people a day coming and going. The jury was shown dozens of invoices, meal counts, and emails seized from Feeding Our Future’s headquarters in Saint Anthony.

Some showed links to websites that randomly generated names and ages to create rosters of children who were served meals.

— And the kicker? Minnesota’s own Department of Education had red flags. Massive spikes in reimbursement requests, impossible, impossible meal counts, and they still rubber-stamped the paperwork. Now, this new audit proves what everyone with a brain has been saying for years, incompetence starts at the top.

When the governor’s own office is sloppy with receipts, how can he possibly keep his agencies in line? — It’s the same pattern. Inflated invoices, nonexistent oversight, and zero accountability.”

So Tim Walz personally knew and did nothing…. Where is the accountability?

Somalian restaurant in Minneapolis took $12 million in federal child meal payments

They said they were feeding 4,000-6,000 kids a day. They only averaged 40 people during 6 weeks

They created fake names and invoices, Minneapolis Department of Education was aware and did nothing… pic.twitter.com/LrtKPSMeuq

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 8, 2025

This story here is really just a small sliver in the overall pie of corruption that’s happening in Walz’s Minnesota.

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According to local watchdog groups, state programs under Walz have accumulated more than $1 billion in alleged fraud tied to government programs. It’s actually gotten so out of control that there’s a full-blown Scandal Tracker that keeps a detailed list of all the growing government scandals under Walz’s administration.

Literally billions of dollars in taxpayer money may have been siphoned off through fraud, waste, and flat-out incompetence. In other words, what happened at Safari Restaurant wasn’t an outlier. It was the blueprint.

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Jay Kolls of KSTP-TV 5 has the scoop. In an interview that aired tonight (Tuesday), Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson tells KSTP:

that when current investigations are prosecuted and finished, the scope of fraud in Minnesota government programs could exceed $1 billion.

“It’s an extraordinary problem, the fraud that’s pervasive in this state,” said Thompson.

Although neither Kolls nor Thompson mentions our ScandalTracker work, they mention many of the specific items we’ve been tracking in a total already at nearly two-thirds of a billion dollars ($662 million).

A final accounting for just the Feeding Our Future, autism clinic, and Housing Stabilization Services scandals will each add over a hundred million dollars to the total, pushing the amount lost to fraud under Gov. Tim Walz (2019-present) over the $1 billion mark.

We also know that the Feds are actively investigating fraud within the adult day care state program.

When Thompson was asked by Kolls if things were getting better, Thompson replied, “I’m not prepared to say that, yet.”

Buckle up!

DEBRIEFING

When you zoom out, the Safari scam is not just some bizarre outlier. It’s the perfect snapshot of how Minnesota has been run under Tim Walz. Fake names, fake kids, inflated invoices, surveillance videos that tell a completely different story than the paperwork, and state agencies that quietly stamp it all approved.

You don’t get $12 million dollars out the door unless the people in charge stop asking questions. You don’t end up with phantom meal sites, AI-generated rosters, and impossible daily counts unless the people running oversight decide that accountability is optional. And you don’t see fraud of this scale repeated again and again unless leadership indicates that no one at the top is watching.

Walz didn’t create these scammers, but he undoubtedly created the environment where scammers thrive. He built a government that trusts forms instead of facts, rubber stamps instead of audits, and excuses instead of answers. That’s why the Feeding Our Future fraud exploded. That’s why other state programs have ended up riddled with waste. And this is precisely why Minnesota taxpayers keep waking up to another scandal that no one inside the government wants to acknowledge.

NOW YOU KNOW

Minnesota didn’t just get defrauded. It got dismissed. And that’s the real crime scene Walz cannot explain away.