Hmmm: Key MN Fraud Figure Claims Omar Took Part in $250M Scam

Old and busted: Wonderful thing, subpoenas. New hotness: Wonderful thing, federal sentencing hearings.

Aimee Bock faces a long prison stay in Club Fed after her convictions in the $250 million Feeding Our Future scam in Minnesota. Bock founded the nonprofit of the same name, and then participated in the massive theft from federal aid programs that mainly took place in the Somali ex-pat community in Minneapolis. Prosecutors want the court to impose a 100-year sentence on Bock, essentially a life sentence under federal parole rules that generally require 85% of sentences to be served before consideration.

In other words, Bock has plenty of incentives to find ways to reduce her sentence. Over the weekend, she told the New York Post that she could hand the Department of Justice a better scalp than hers – Ilhan Omar. The congresswoman from MN-05 wasn’t just a casual observer, Bock claims, but a mastermind behind the entire scheme:

Omar was instrumental in loosening the laws that set the stage for the scheme — first by introducing the MEALS Act to Congress in March 2020, which allowed the US Department of Agriculture to issue waivers of school-meal requirements during the pandemic.

The waivers dramatically eased oversight of the federal programs by allowing restaurants to participate without any of the usual site inspections.

Omar would personally step in whenever those waivers ran out, allowing the rampant fraud to continue, Bock alleged.

“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. “Because of course this was supposed to be a short-term thing . . . we were supposed to be home for two weeks.”

Bock also reached out to Fox News, where she added Tim Walz and Keith Ellison to her list of bigger fish to fry:

🚨 NEW – Convicted Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock claimed from jail that Rep. Ilhan Omar knew about the $250M COVID meal fraud, alleging her office helped secure the USDA waivers that made the scheme possible.

A Minnesota state committee agreed, concluding Omar, Walz,… pic.twitter.com/giBZBzhofB

— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) May 18, 2026

Granted, Bock has many reasons to toss the DoJ a significant public figure as the real villain. She has 100 reasons at the moment, although a federal judge likely won’t go anywhere near that high for a non-violent crime. Even if Bock only gets 30 years as Fox auggests, though, she’d be nearly 70 years old before becoming eligible for parole. Bock is out of options other than appeals now, and she’s desperate to deflect responsibility before the final gavel comes down. And even apart from partisan considerations, prosecutors loooove to nail corrupt public officials, which Bock may want to leverage.

However, that doesn’t mean Bock is lying, either. Earlier this month, the NY Post reported that her trial produced evidence of Omar’s involvement in communications between Omar, Bock, and the USDA. The contents are still sealed by the court, but Bock keeps trying to draw attention to them:

“Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar’s name appears at least six times in recently resurfaced court documents from the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud case, fueling speculation about whether the Minnesota socialist had a hand in the widespread scam in her district.

The documents were part of the 2025 federal trial of Aimee Bock, the founder of the Feeding our Future nonprofit who was convicted of wire fraud, conspiracy, and bribery for masterminding the scheme that falsely claimed to serve millions of meals to children while pocketing federal funds through bogus food sites and shell companies. Bock is in custody awaiting a sentencing hearing on May 21.

Omar came up in a Feb. 5, 2021 email chain with Bock, with the subject line “help with USDA food program,” the trial exhibits show. …

The exhibits also include a text message string between Bock and Omar, which was uncovered during a raid of Bock’s Minnesota house, records show.

The state legislature’s committee on fraud has demanded that Omar appear to explain her connection to the case and to turn over her communications to the committee. Omar has refused to do either, and has not even replied to the demands. That has one committee member openly criticizing Omar’s “arrogance and disdain”:

“I think it shows just incredible arrogance and disdain for the people of Minnesota,” [Kristin] Robbins, who’s running as a GOP candidate to take over lefty Tim Waltz’s job as governor, told The Post.

“She is refusing to show up and answer questions in person, she’s refusing to respond to our requests for data, and I mean, honestly, she’s even refusing to respond at all. When I say they ghosted us, it’s because we’ve had no replies. She’s an elected public official, she should at least want to share with the public how her office was involved in this, and I think taxpayers deserve that.”

Mitch wrote about this at the time, as the DFL-controlled legislature let Omar off the hook for that “arrogance and disdain.” However, Bock’s direct allegations are a new escalation aimed at federal prosecutors rather than state legislators. There is clearly smoke here in the e-mail and text chains, as well as Omar’s direct involvement with some of the scammers, notably Salim Said, who has also been convicted of fraud involving $16 million of the Feeding Our Future scam. Omar made appearances at Said’s restaurant and even held an election party there, although that was in 2018, before the fraud began.

Bock has obvious motivation to help prosecutors work their way up the chain, so her claims might be taken with a grain of salt. However, that’s how prosecutors unwind organized crime syndicates, and the Somali fraud operation certainly qualifies for that description. Over sixty people have been convicted already in federal court in these schemes, with more defendants left to try. Prosecutors dismantle rackets like these by using long prison sentences as leverage for crooks to flip and provide evidence to try the bosses.

That doesn’t necessarily make Omar a boss in this case, but she has enough links to the scam – including the creation of the program itself and the waivers she pushed – to make her a person of interest. There’s other evidence of cover-up by Omar, too. Remember her sudden and dramatic change in self-assessment of her personal worth, as required in congressional disclosures? The House Oversight Committee has now referred that to the Ethics Committee:

FINANCIAL FLIP-FLOP: House Oversight demands a deep dive into Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) dramatic disclosures.

The Democratic Party lawmaker faces an Ethics Committee probe after her reported net worth plummeted from an initial $6 million to $30 million down to just $18,000 to… pic.twitter.com/YS48IPhNrN

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) May 19, 2026