The question keeps coming up in reference to the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal: what did Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison know, and when did he know it?
Another piece to the puzzle can be found in a court filing made last month in the case of Sharon Ross, the former operator of the House of Refuge food distribution operation in St. Paul.
Ross is Defendant No. 60 (out of 79, so far) in the sprawling free-food scandal. She was the 17th to plead guilty in the case and the third defendant sentenced (out of 8, so far).
Back in February 2025, Ross was sentenced to serve 43 months in federal prison, which fell within the 37 to 46 months guidelines included in her plea agreement.
Nonetheless, Ross has been fighting for the past year for a sentence reduction. To that end, last month, Ross sent a seven-page email to the court (dated 2/22/2026), which included this paragraph describing an October 2021 encounter with Ellison (email, p. 2). Click on this link to read her account, which I also posted on Twitter (X).
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The date is significant, as it comes two months before Ellison’s infamous December 2021 meeting with Feeding Our Future fraudsters, a 54-minute meeting where the audio was recorded. The December 2021 Ellison meeting included two attendees who would later be convicted in the fraud.
In her email, Ross, who would also later be convicted in the fraud, documents an October encounter with Ellison.
In her email, Ross mentions watching Ellison’s February 2026 testimony before the U.S. Senate. In this post, I describe one instance where I believe Ellison lied under oath at that hearing.
That Ross had friends in high places within the Democratic party is confirmed by a 2021 incident where state Sen. Sandy Pappas (DFL-St. Paul) went to bat for Ross’ organization.
[Note: an earlier version of this post appeared at AmericanExperiment.Org.]
