And we’re back. And we’re back, y’all. Thank you for watching today. Go ahead and hit that like button, my people. You know, that helps us out a ton. And of course, it helps you because it helps us keep bringing you these stories every day. Now, y’all check this out. We all know about the Feeding Our Future $250 million-plus fraud scandal in Minnesota. That’s plus, that’s probably more—$300 million, y’all. I’m sure you’ve heard about that by now.

But did you know that just one family had six different members involved? Six, y’all. Six members of the same family. And just their share of the $250 to $300-plus million dollars was over $14 million. And now they have all pleaded guilty. It looks like they’ll probably all be going to jail. Today, the final family member, the final holdout, Mr. Gandhi Muhammad, pleaded guilty. So we’re going to be taking a look at that.

And also, y’all, I want to call your attention to the fact that this was the same family where the matriarch, the woman who got everybody else involved, basically put everybody else on the wrong path. She’s also the person who recorded Attorney General Ellison out of Minnesota saying that he would be helping them perpetrate the fraud.

Now, he has since come out and said he didn’t know he was going to be helping perpetrate fraud, but she is the one who got him recorded saying that he would be helping them out. And she gave him a contribution to his campaign after that. So we’re going to be taking a look at that as well. So, without further ado, let’s go ahead and get into it.

More guilty pleas in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal are taking place in court. Our Bill Keller is outside the federal courthouse in Minneapolis with the very latest in what is happening or what has happened. Bill, good morning.

“Good morning, Tom. Well, Gandhi Muhammad was among five family members who were indicted for a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme involving the federal child nutrition program last month. The five others pleaded guilty as part of an agreement with prosecutors. And after initially rejecting the government’s plea deal, the 45-year-old has since changed his mind. His jury trial was set to begin April 20th. This morning, Gandhi Muhammad pleaded guilty to a single count of money laundering, which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Under the terms of the plea agreement, prosecutors are recommending that he spend between 30 and 37 months behind bars. He will also be ordered to repay nearly $1.4 million in restitution.”

Now y’all, in case you are worried about Mr. Gandhi Muhammad, in case you’re like, what happened to him? Is he okay? Is he going to be all right after being involved in a $14 million fraud theft, essentially? How’s he doing? Well, I think this is his lawyer, y’all. And his lawyer wants you to know that he’s moved on with his life. He’s ready to make amends. He’s a former service member, a successful businessman, and he acknowledges his wrongdoing. He’s going to do whatever he can do to make amends for his conduct. He’s deeply, deeply remorseful for his conduct.

Meanwhile, another man who pleaded guilty in this fraud scheme is heading to prison. On Wednesday, Abdullah Jesso was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and two years of supervised release. He is also being ordered to repay $866,000 in restitution. Now, of the 79 people in all that have been charged with stealing more than $250 million in COVID relief funds, 64 have either pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial. The U.S. attorney’s office says that is the largest number of convictions in a single fraud investigation in recent memory. Back to you.

“All right, thanks so much. That’s our Bill Keller live from federal courthouse this morning. Thank you, Bill.”

Now, y’all, let me remind you that Mr. Muhammad’s sister got everybody else involved in this scheme, and she also got Attorney General Ellison involved tangentially, right? And she also recorded him saying that he would get involved.

“How many people been indicted in your state right now? Do you know, Governor?”

“I don’t have those numbers with me.”

“You don’t? Ninety-eight people been indicted. You happen to know how many are Somali American?”

“I don’t. We prosecuted over 300 people in the Medicaid fraud area.”

“But you’ve never said to stop payments. It’s one of the highest rates in the country, sir. Well, you have one of the highest fraud rates in the country.”

“Your former chief of staff was notified directly by these various commissioners about the fraud in Minnesota.”

“That could be correct.”

“So, are you saying that your chief of staff didn’t notify you?”

“I’m saying I don’t recall.”

Of course, he later came out and said that he didn’t know what was going on. She also gave him a $2,500 campaign contribution, which he later said he donated away to somebody else or some other cause. But yeah, y’all, she’s also pleaded guilty.

More guilty pleas today in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, including from a woman who recruited members of her family to join the scam and allegedly collected money to bribe a juror. Lou Raguse was in court today and breaks it down for us.

“Julie Ikram Muhammad stole taxpayer money, recruited others to do the same, collected kickbacks, and laundered money to try to cover it up, taking part in just about every element of the $300 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. She’s also the one who secretly recorded Attorney General Keith Ellison, trying to fool him into helping them.”

“Ikram, do you have anything to say?”

Ikram Muhammad joined the $300 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme as a consultant for executive director Amy Bock, recruiting others to take part, soliciting kickbacks in return, even signing up her husband, mother, sister, and brothers to run phony meal sites. Her husband and sister claimed to run two meal sites out of a little building in North Minneapolis, billing for more than a million phantom meals to feed children in need. All told, Muhammad’s actions led to the theft of $14.7 million in taxpayer money.

“Are you going to be able to pay back any of the money?”

Although she wouldn’t talk after her guilty plea, Muhammad used to be one of the most vocal defendants claiming innocence.

“There were lines at Safari looping around Lake Street.”

She’s the one who secretly recorded Attorney General Keith Ellison a month before the criminal case went public, with a group of fellow fraudsters claiming racism and trying to fool Ellison into fighting those who shut off the flow of money.

“This has been going on for some time.”

“What the heck, man? Nobody’s minding the store?”

“The sponsor actually took the initiative to sue. Good for her. I love it.”

Now, as I said, y’all, this fraud guilty plea means that this lady will not be charged in other crimes that she allegedly was involved in, including bribing a juror. Now, we saw a guilty plea for that crime last week. Apparently she was involved in that as well. That juror was about to get $120,000, y’all. But it looks like this particular conspirator will not have to go to trial for that and will not be punished for that.

“In return for her guilty plea, prosecutors agreed not to charge Muhammad in any other cases they’re investigating.”

“Does this mean you won’t be charged in the bribe case?”

Previously in open court, prosecutors said Muhammad helped collect money in the Somali community to bribe a juror in the first Feeding Our Future trial. While she won’t face further charges, most of those affiliated with her are left with little choice but to plead guilty as well. Four more from Muhammad’s family will plead guilty Friday. Her husband also pleaded guilty today. That leaves just her brother, Gandhi Muhammad, claiming innocence in their indictment. He turned down a plea deal today and said he’ll stand trial alone starting on April 20th. Ikram Muhammad will be sentenced at a later date. She’s looking at about 10 years in prison.

And if that wasn’t enough, people, don’t forget now, all of this was the Feeding Our Future fraud. This was all about feeding hungry kids. Believe it or not, they actually needed to come up with names for the kids reportedly, and there were people who were going online to websites that generate random names. They didn’t have any kids they were actually feeding. So they were going onto websites and saying, “Yo, give me like 10,000 different names,” just random names, and using those names as the names they were submitting to the government. Like, “Yo, I fed Billy Bob Sweeney and I fed Julie Applebee,” just made-up names from the internet.

But that’s just the Feeding Our Future fraud. Now, don’t forget, they also have the autism fraud in Minnesota. Minnesota’s legislative auditors detailed their investigation into allegations of kickbacks in the state program that helps fund autism centers. The Office of the Legislative Auditor received credible complaints of fraud in the program in 2024. However, they learned the Department of Human Services did not investigate three of the reports because leadership believed, due to convoluted federal laws, they were not allowed to investigate the matter. Well, the auditors said kickbacks were illegal under federal law and DHS could have imposed sanctions.

So yeah, y’all. They were telling parents, “Hey, sign up your child who doesn’t have autism for my autism scam and I’ll give you some money for basically pretending like your child has autism.” Y’all, this is in the same place where they were making up fake names of children and saying they were feeding a million fake children.

“The state legislature passed a law last year making it clear DHS can investigate and punish kickbacks, but legislative auditors want the department to go even further.”

“We recommend that DHS amend its administrative rule to clearly define fraud, to clearly include kickbacks. We also say that if DHS does not initiate a rulemaking process to correct this issue, the legislature could and should take action to resolve the issue.”

Auditors are pushing a bill to implement a lot of their recommendations. So far, it has only had one hearing in a Senate subcommittee.

So yeah, y’all. You’ve got whole families involved in taking $14 million. You have people telling parents, “Act like your kid has autism and I’ll pay you for it.” You have housing assistance fraud. You have all kinds of fraud. Minnesota is like—people say Florida is the fraud capital of the country. It’s been said that California, because it’s the biggest state, might be the fraud capital. But is anybody really doing it like Minnesota, y’all? Is anybody as creative as the fraudsters in Minnesota? Let me know what y’all think.

We’ve been talking about war lately. We’ve been talking about all kinds of things. But I predict that this fraud thing will continue. It will be back as a top headline. Do you think that any real big fish will go down? Any politicians? Walz? Lieutenant Governor? Ellison? Anybody else? Ilhan Omar? Let me know what y’all think. Drop a comment down below. But before you do, please stop, hit the share button, share this video out over email, text message, WhatsApp, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, all your favorite social media platforms. And of course, if you’re not a subscriber, please do subscribe. Thank you all for watching. Love y’all. And we’ll see you back in the next one.

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Now to another exchange:

“Mr. Chair understands if somebody crosses the border illegally, what should happen to them?”

“Federal law indicates that there are steps that can be taken to remove them. Now, that can happen at the border, or it can happen when they are integrated into society. There are protections once you are integrated into society.”

“But if we find them crossing into the country illegally, they should be deported, to put it simply. Is that right?”

“If someone does not have a right to enter, yes, there is a right under federal law to interdict them and prevent them from entering.”

“Right. That’s been a basic element of immigration law for a very long time.”

“I agree.”

“Do you believe that American tax dollars should be used to rehabilitate criminal illegal aliens within our own borders?”

“I believe it’s in our own interest to rehabilitate anybody who commits a crime.”

“Including criminal illegal aliens?”

“If it happens within our borders, it’s to the benefit of all of us to rehabilitate them. Rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes is not for their own benefit. It’s for the benefit of society.”

“How many criminal illegal aliens should we rehabilitate?”

“Again, anyone who commits a crime and is convicted of a crime should be rehabilitated for the benefit of the entire society.”

“So if an illegal alien comes into our country, murders or rapes somebody, we ought to rehabilitate them—is that your view? There’s no limit to the number of illegal alien criminals we should rehabilitate. Is that your testimony?”

“I wasn’t asked to testify about that, Congress member. I was asked to testify—”

“I’m just clarifying your position, which you just attempted to lay out.”

“My position is quite clear. Thank you.”

“Okay. How much money should we spend on rehabilitating criminal illegal aliens?”

“We should spend as much money as necessary to rehabilitate anyone who is convicted of crime in this country.”

“Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Just step back and understand the Democrats’ position for a second. First, they were for a wide-open border. You don’t have to take my word for it. Just remember what we saw every single day for four years of the Biden administration. People lining up on the southern border, camping out under the bridges in various towns along the border. Open. Eight to ten million people in a four-year time. They were all fine with that. Lost track of 300,000 kids during that time.

Then their other position: abolish ICE. Don’t want to enforce our immigration laws. No, no, no, we’ve got to abolish ICE. As if being doxed, tracked, harassed, spit on, sworn at, attacked, and receiving death threats for ICE agents and their families wasn’t enough, now the Democrats say we want to get rid of them altogether. That’s really going to help the situation in our country.

And then third, they’re for sanctuary jurisdictions. We just passed legislation in our committee two weeks ago to deal with this. Eighteen cities, eleven states, three counties, and the District of Columbia, representing 31.5% of the population of this country, reside in a jurisdiction where left political leaders tell local law enforcement, ‘Don’t work with federal law enforcement when it comes to enforcing federal law.’ Maybe one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard, but that is their position. This is craziness, but that’s their position.”

Likewise, the bill before us today is not really about fraud either. Current law already allows people to be deported for committing fraud. Individuals can become deportable if they’re convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, or CIMT, for which a sentence of one year or longer may be imposed. The fraud offenses in this bill carry maximum penalties between one and 30 years, which clearly meet the one-year minimum required for deportability. Additionally, multiple fraud offenses are specifically defined as aggravated felonies if the crime contains a sentence of a year or more. Conviction for an aggravated felony makes a person deportable.

But the key word here, Mr. Speaker, is conviction. Conviction. This bill is really about stripping due process and making it easier to deport immigrants with lawful status, like green card holders. Under this bill, a green card holder who has been in this country for decades could be deported without a conviction. Under current law, most deportability grounds require a person to be convicted of a crime. As a result, if this bill were to become law, it would be easier to deport someone for fraud offenses than it would be to deport them for murder, rape, or sexual abuse.