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?