According to the “mastermind” of a Minnesota social services fraud, revolving around the “Feeding Our Future” program, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., representing a congressional district where authorities suggest up to $9 billion in taxpayer money was lost to criminal activities, knew about it.
There long have been questions about how such billions of dollars could vanish into the criminal community without an number of officials knowing about it.
In this COVID-era program, suppliers told the government they were feeding children and submitted bills for millions of dollars on a regular basis. They were paid, even though it is apparent some of them never provided any food or services.
Now a report at the New York Post explains that it was in a video interview that Aimee Bock, founder of Feeding Our Future and already convicted of federal wire fraud, bribery and conspiracy, discussed the case.
“I struggle to believe that she wouldn’t have known,” Bock told the publication, about Omar.
Minnesota ‘Squad’ Rep. Ilhan Omar knew about $250M COVID meal fraud, scheme ‘mastermind’ claims in jailhouse interview https://t.co/NaDLL10XC8 pic.twitter.com/0cVQKk1fzE
— New York Post (@nypost) May 16, 2026
Dozens of members of Minnesota’s Somali community, in a district Omar represents, already have been convicted on various fraud counts for social services program scams, including programs that were supposed to provide child care or deliver food.
“That’s my biggest regret,” Bock told the publication. “Accepting the answer that the government doesn’t take a position on fraud. . . . I don’t think I comprehended just the magnitude of how important that statement would be.”
Minnesota’s state Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee recently asked the U.S. House Oversight Committee to subpoena Omar, over her refusal to turn over her communications with fraudsters.
“Omar — and fellow Democrats Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison — ‘played critical roles in creating and enabling’ the fraud,” a Minnesota legislative committee determined.
Bock’s defense has been that she didn’t knowingly participate in any fraud, and she tried to warn state officials
“The notion that I’m personally responsible for all of it . . . is so frustrating. I’m the only white person out of 80 or 90 individuals [charged in the fraud]. I’m the only one that doesn’t speak the language,” she added.
Omar was, in fact, instrumental in setting up the “MEALS” Act in Congress allowing the Department of Agriculture to issue waivers to ordinary requirements before reimbursement for school-meal programs, the report said.
Omar also made videos at one of the restaurants involved.
Bock said when a “waiver” was running out, and a new one had not yet been implemented, Omar would “step in” and “allow the rampant fraud to continue,” the report charged.
“There had been a couple times early on that there were some gaps – a waiver would be set to expire on maybe the 15th of a month, and then the renewal didn’t kick in until the 1st,” Bock claimed.
Omar has been plagued by a long list of other scandals recently, including her required financial disclosures for Congress that revealed her wealth exploded from a few thousand dollars to $30 million in a year. Then she later retracted, alleging an accountant’s error, saying her wealth actually was nominal.
Bock said Omar’s name came up at least six times in emails and text messages used as evidence in her trial in 2025.
