Ryan Thorpe and Chris Rufo have set off an orgy of self-promotion and self-congratulation with their City Journal column on Minnesota massive public-programs fraud. The cleims of “breaking news” — let’s call it breakinig news from 2018 — have become an epidemic with the inevitable demands for an investigation.
To repeat a point I made last week,the case has been investigated. With the two Feeding Our Future trials prosecuted by Joe Thompson and his colleagues in the Office of United States Attorney for Minneosta, the investigaiton is a matter of public record.
The investigators include the FBI, the IRS, and the US Postal Inspecion Service. The implication of the “demands” that some stone has been left unturned is a pretense and a distraction.
Seventy-eight indictments have been handed up in the Feeding Our Future case. Thompson has also announed the nature and magnitude of the new public-programs fraud cases he is pursuing. He has explained how he was led to them by the Feeding Our Future case itself. Indeed, the new cases feature some of the old defendants.
What we have here is a new form of stolen valor. It must be hard for the legal team that has investigate, exposed, and prosecuted the case hear polticians and others suggesting they were asleep at the wheel. They — I mean the legal team — must be nauseated.
Even if it sounds smarmy to say so, it would be nice if Thompson and his colleagues were thanked and encouraged. While others were dozing, lookiing the other way, or stealing, they were on the case. They have given up days, nights, and weekends to administer justice to the the wide world of Minnesota fraud. If any other team had gotten this case, it would have gone nowhere. They would have charged five people and called it a day.
Those who have worked on these cases cannot even respond to the grandstanding. They have to grin and bear it while they continue their work.
If anyone out there in the peanut gallery wants to be helpful, I have a suggestion. Ask United States Attorney Daniel Rosen if he needs additional resources to prosecute the cases his office has invesgitated.
I tried to provide an overview of the Feeding Our Future case in the Free Beacon column “From Feeding the Kids to Fleecing the Government: Inside the Country’s Largest COVID Fraud.” In the X post below Dustin Grage provides a useful summary of the coverage of these cases over the past several years (click on it for the full text).
Grage calmly responds to the claims of “breaking news.” I disagree with Dustin slightly on the “unsung heroes” he identifies (Center of the American Experiment, Alpha News, and us). My list of “unsung heroes” would feature FBI forensic accountant Pauline Roase and then Assistant United Staes Attorney Joe Thompson. They undertook the Feeding Our Future case over four years ago with the support of then United States Attorney Andrew Luger.
A lot of people are trying to claim credit for “breaking” the Minnesota Somali fraud story.
The truth is that Minnesotans have been covering this fraud for years.
For me, it started when I was knocking on doors as an @mngop Field Officer Director. I was the primary liaison to…
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) December 1, 2025
