General Discussion

and most of the participants were Somali, although the ringleader was a white woman. Pandemic relief funds allocated to a nonprofit called Feeding Our Future were supposed to go to a meal program for low-income children but almost none did, instead finding their way into the pockets of the people who were supposed to distribute the money. Although the state agency responsible for monitoring the program repeatedly tried to cut off funds, the organization was not shut down until FBI raids and federal indictments in 2022. It was probably the biggest pandemic relief fraud in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_Our_Future This, of course, put a target on the backs of all Somalis in the state and probably elsewhere, and even though governors aren't responsible for auditing the books of state agencies Walz had to take the heat for it. There was a lot of misappropriation of covid relief money everywhere, but if white folks did it, of course it didn't get as much attention. But Newsom can more easily say "bring it on" to Trump because he doesn't have a big fat albatross of an actual fraud scheme like Feeding Our Future hanging around his neck.