National & Minnesota Report
Yesterday, on the 12th Floor in US District Judge Nancy Brasel’s courtroom the declared ringleader of the “Feeding Our Future”, pandemic fraud scheme Aimee Bock, faced sentencing. Prior to the sentencing, attempted to leverage the media and state lawmakers to get a lighter sentence. She leaking protected documents and giving jailhouse interviews blaming others and tried to scapegoat Governor Tim Walz (DFL-MN) and State Attorney General Keith Ellison (DFL-MN) as unfairly targeting her.
All of this was for naught. The result, Bock was sentenced to to 500 months in federal prison and she was also ordered to pay $242 million in restitution.
A gaggle of reporters sat on the ground floor and a podium was set-up for the two sides to make their claims.
Meanwhile, upstairs on the 6th floor in a press briefing room outside of the US Attorney’s office. The press conference started over 30 minutes late and kicked off with the first Assistant Attorney General for the National Fraud Enforcement Division Colin McDonald. He accounted for an alleged $90 million in the multiple fraud schemes.The entirety of the press conference is available here.
Originally, acting FBI Director Todd Blanche was supposed to attend, but he was busily defending the newly manifested Donald J Trump (R) Slush Fund officially called the Anti-Weaponization Fund (AWF). Its clear this is a problematic issue for Republicans in both the House and Senate, and especially after Trump’s endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) over seated US Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Trump’s successful targeting of US Senator Dr Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Congressman Thomas Massey (R-KY04) in their respective Primary’s, Capitol Hill is a hornet’s nest and the leadership quickly recessed for the Memorial holiday rather than have discussions over the AWF or the War Powers Act.
We then heard from US Attorney Daniel Rosen who provided the local connection to all of the fraud illegalities which transpired over the course of time.
The assembled heard announcements of additional charges being brought against 15 other individuals who had committed fraud against Minnesotans and all federal taxpayers for abuse of Medicare supported programs for Homelessness, Autism five other programs. In fact, the Housing Stabilization program, which had a limited budget was so imperiled it was shutdown by Governor Walz on October 31, 2025.
McDonald has followed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr who ticked off inappropriate uses of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs and Kennedy passed over to CMS Administrator Dr Mehmet Oz.
Later Deputy FBI Director Christopher Raia ticked off a number of items including a warrant for a fleeing suspect Mohamed Omar, who evaded law enforcement by jumping from a fourth floor of a building to escape arrest. He also, gave a hat tip to Nick Shirley for his bring to light some of these issues.
Now, Shirley is not truly what he seems to be, he is purported to be a Right-wing Influencer, who supposedly exposed the fraud of Somali daycare’s, but during the arrest during protests in March at the State Capitol, we have learned the police who booked the protesters acknowledged the fact Shirley was brought in and quickly out the backdoor, because he was part of the FBI.
One other interesting question was offered by a self declared “Community Journalist”, who described his own adverse impact from fraud, to which McDonald responded with this being a potential opportunity for him to apply for AWF monies.
With the protests in Minneapolis, Donald J Trump (R) said there were paid protester agitators on the Left, when its clear Shirley was a paid protester agitator on the Right.
Minnesota is Not Alone
McDonald announced the Anit-Fraud Task-force led by J D Vance (R) and He said along with Minnesota New York and Los Angeles are areas of interest. Raia called attention to the Medicare Task-force being built around 15 new attorneys saying, “DOJ are intent on building a Fraud Fighting Apparatus,” and establishing criminal culpability.