Ousman Camara of Brooklyn Center, age 45, was indicted on nine counts related to fraud, the U.S. Attorney (USAO) announced in a press release. Camara made his first appearance in the case at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis this morning. He becomes the 77th person charged in relation to the Feeding Our Future scandal.
The U.S. Attorney asserts that Camara’s grocery was disqualified from participating in the SNAP program a decade ago.
He is the owner of K’s Grocery and Deli of North Minneapolis. He is reportedly a native of Sierre Leone.
Camara and his West Broadway business has been profiled a couple of times by MPR News. First in 2020 after the George Floyd riots,
Helping north Minneapolis rebuild — and putting businesses on more solid ground
And again in 2023 in a follow-up piece,
3 years later, some north Minneapolis businesses are still recovering from unrest
An exhibit introduced in the most recent Feeding Our Future courtroom trial lists K’s Dollar Grocery and Deli as receiving more than $1 million from the free food program in total over the period 2020 to 2021.
He was mentioned in a Minnesota Star Tribune article later in 2023. They wrote,
Ousman Camara, owner of K’s Grocery and Deli on W. Broadway, said he’s seeing more of his teenage customers falling under the influence of fentanyl, a drug that seems to change young people so dramatically that they’ll shoplift one day and come in to apologize the next, saying they had no control over their actions.
From a crime victim to an accused criminal.
Back in early 2022, we reported on a St. Cloud grocer, with Feeding Our Future connections, who pled guilty in a $4 million SNAP scam.
No date has been set for Camara’s next court appearance.
[Note: an earlier version of this post appeared at AmericanExperiment.Org.]
