They Stole the Kids’ Meals: How Minnesota Democrats Turned Federal Aid Into Somali Fortunes $250 Million Gone. Luxury Cars. Overseas Transfers. And the Politicians Who Looked Away (THREAD 🧵) Minnesota did not stumble into the largest documented welfare fraud complex in American history by accident. Under years of Democratic control, the state built a machine that converted federal dollars intended for children, the disabled, and the poor into private fortunes, overseas transfers, luxury vehicles, and real estate for operators who understood exactly how the system worked. The Feeding Our Future scheme alone stands as the largest pandemic-relief fraud charged in the United States. Prosecutors documented roughly two hundred fifty million dollars in false claims for meals that largely never existed. Aimee Bock, the white founder who ran the nonprofit that enrolled hundreds of sites, received a sentence of five hundred months. That is more than forty-one years. Dozens of others, the overwhelming majority of them Somali Americans, pleaded guilty or were convicted. Sites claimed thousands of meals a day in communities whose actual population could not support the numbers. Rosters listed children who did not exist or who lived nowhere near the facility. The money bought houses in Minnesota and property abroad, cars, travel, and cash moved through networks that knew how to keep it moving...