The Feeding Our Future case continues to expand. Last week the court unsealed a search warrant executed on the office of New Vision Vision Foundation in St. Paul. New Vision hallucinated the dispensation of more than a million free meals at its St. Paul site in 2021. The office is located in a familiar industrial neighborhood that seems like a bad fit for serving up free meals. It’s another “you have got to be kidding me” installment of the long-running Feeding Our Future series.
Sahan Journal’s Joey Peters reached New Vision principal Hussein Farah by phone. He referred Peters to his attorneys, neither of whom responded. In a piquant twist to the story, Farah is a former member of Sahan Journal’s board (2018-2024).
Charges haven’t been filed in the New Vision prong of the case yet, but I assume that the evidence acquired in the search will not go to waste. Joey’s story is posted here. I have embedded the unsealed search warrant and affidavit at the bottom.
There is a good news/bad news aspect to this particular episode of the Feeding Our Future story. Peters points out:
The search warrant states that employees at the recycling company [adjacent to the foundation office] told law enforcement that they’ve never seen children at New Vision Foundation’s office. It also said that the recycling company is a reentry program that “employs many registered sex offenders,” so children could not be present at New Vision Foundation.
And no children were seen there. What a relief!
We do have a new defendant in the Feeding Our Future case. Her name is Hibo Daar. She was arrested at the airport this past Sunday evening as she sought to make her way to Dubai. Her Minneapolis nonprofit allegedly served another million meals under the auspices of Feeding Our Future.
Ms. Daar’s attempted flight appears to have been inspired by news of the New Vision Foundation raid. She has been taken into custody pending a hearing tomorrow. Peters takes up her initial hearing in court earlier this week:
Hibo Daar made her initial court appearance Tuesday. She told the court that she hadn’t traveled in the last two years. However, federal prosecutors noted that her passport showed that she traveled to multiple countries in that time period, including the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Kenya. The court ordered that she remain in custody.
KARE 11’s Lou Raguse reports on the heave-ho for Hibo in the linked story. Daar has been charged by criminal complaint with one count of wire fraud.
I tried to give a sense of the big picture in the Feeding Our Future cases in the Free Beacon column “From Feeding the Kids to Fleecing the Government: Inside the Country’s Largest COVID Fraud.” More — more of the same — to come.
Feeding Our Fraud search warrant and affidavit by Scott Johnson on Scribd
