From Fox News,
Million-dollar SNAP food stamp fraud scheme in Walz’s backyard sparks outrage: ‘Cruel joke’
Fox News reports,
Authorities in Minnesota have filed criminal charges against a man accused of a food stamp fraud scheme that defrauded taxpayers out of over $1 million.
Abdidwahid Mohamed, the owner of Minnesota Food Grocery LLC, allegedly used EBT cards registered to others to purchase items at Sam’s Club and Costco in 2021 before turning around and reselling them in his store, Fox 9 Minneapolis reported.
A few things are significant about this case. One, the events described occurred back in 2021 and it’s taken a full five years to file this case.
Two, it’s being prosecuted by Hennepin County’s soft-on-crime prosecutor Mary Moriarty. For years I was told that local and state authorities weren’t even allowed to prosecute theft from federal programs, such as SNAP.
That said, what are the odds, given the venue of
- Getting a conviction
- Getting a judge to uphold that conviction
- Getting a judge to impose a prison seentence
- Getting a judge to order resititution.
The entire exercise appears to represent the triumph of hope over experience.
[Note: an earlier version of this post appeared at Power Line.]
