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When The Punishment DOES NOT Fit The Crime

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On Tuesday, Yahoo News posted an article about Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir, 34, of Lakeville, Minnesota.

The article reports:

A Minnesota man whose food site received more than $5.4 million after falsely claiming to serve about 1.6 million meals to children has been sentenced to 6½ years in federal prison.

Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir, 34, of Lakeville, received a 78-month sentence on Aug. 18 for wire fraud in the massive Feeding Our Future case, according to the latest reporting from FOX 9.

But the fraud itself was not the only conduct that affected his punishment. While another Feeding Our Future trial was underway in February 2025, Abshir approached a cooperating witness who was preparing to testify and asked the man to go into a courthouse bathroom with him to talk.

Abshir later acknowledged that the encounter amounted to obstruction of justice through attempted witness tampering. At sentencing, U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel said the courthouse conduct was a primary reason for the 78-month term.

According to an article posted at Power Line Blog on Tuesday:

Abdinasir Abshir, Feeding Our Future defendant No. 10 (out of 80), was sentenced to 6-and-a-half years in federal prison in a hearing this afternoon. He was ordered to repay the more than $2 million he personally took out of the scheme.

Where do the taxpayers go to get the rest of the $5.4 million?

Yahoo News reports:

Abshir transferred millions of dollars from Horseed Management to himself and other people involved in the scheme. Some of the money went to Calikamin Enterprise, another shell company Abshir created. He also used fraud proceeds to purchase a 2021 Range Rover, which federal authorities seized for forfeiture.

Prosecutors say Abshir paid more than $100,000 in bribes and kickbacks to Abdikerm Eidleh, a Feeding Our Future employee, in exchange for helping sponsor and facilitate Stigma-Free Mankato’s participation in the federal nutrition program.

Feeding Our Future received nearly $420,000 in administrative fees for sponsoring the site, according to the Justice Department. Abshir also paid $5,750 into a GoFundMe account created for Feeding Our Future in December 2021.

I am not impressed with the sentencing. Six and a half years in prison is not enough of a penalty for that amount of criminal activity or to deter someone else from committing a similar crime.

Arresting The People Who Committed Fraud

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On Saturday, Legal Insurrection posted an article about the arrest of Herbert Leon Kimble, who after pleading guilty to fraud, didn’t bother to show up for his sentencing.

The article reports:

Just over two weeks after the FBI unveiled its new Most Wanted Fraudsters list, the administration has notched its second capture, and the message is getting through.

Herbert Leon Kimble, who pleaded guilty to orchestrating one of the largest Medicare fraud schemes ever prosecuted in the United States and then simply didn’t show up for sentencing, has been arrested in the Philippines and returned to face justice. The FBI had offered a reward of up to $150,000 for information leading to his arrest and conviction.

According to the FBI, Kimble’s scheme generated more than $1.2 billion in fraudulent Medicare charges and victimized thousands of beneficiaries, many of them elderly Americans who trusted the healthcare system. 

The arrest marks the second capture from the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters list, which launched on June 4, 2026, and initially featured eight fugitives accused of major fraud offenses.

The list is a centerpiece of the administration’s broader effort to crack down on fraud, waste, and abuse, an effort that, so far, appears to be producing results. 

The article concludes:

Kimble’s arrest comes as the administration makes good on its promise to pursue fraud in federal programs with renewed seriousness. In March 2026, President Donald Trump established the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by Vice President Vance, to coordinate enforcement efforts across the federal government.

Earlier this month, Said Abdullahi Ereg surrendered to federal authorities in Minneapolis.

Ereg is accused of participating in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme and allegedly received more than $4.2 million through fraudulent reimbursement claims tied to a federal child nutrition program.

Federal officials have made clear that more arrests are coming. Six of the eight fugitives on the Most Wanted Fraudsters list remain at large, but if the first two weeks are any indication, that number may not hold for long.

It is good to see people being held accountable for their actions.

Another Step Away From The Constitution

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On Tuesday, Townhall posted an article reporting that a Minnesota judge has thrown out a jury’s guilty verdict.

The article reports:

We’ve told you quite a bit about Minnesota’s ongoing fraud problems, the vast majority of them stemming from the large Somali population in and around Minneapolis. The state has paused Medicaid payments over fraud concerns (and that fraud has led to at least one death), and millions of dollars were laundered through the Feeding Our Future program and state housing programs, too. A lot of that money ended up in the hands of Al-Shabaab, the largest terrorist group in Somalia.

Despite all the evidence of fraud, a Minnesota judge has just overturned a jury’s guilty verdict in one Medicare fraud case, paving the way for all the other fraud convictions to be overturned as well.

The jury heard that Yusuf and his wife were charged and the jury learned his “home health company” was operated out of a mailbox at an address where multiple other “home health companies” als operated. The state showed they spent tens of thousands of dollars on luxury items.

The jury quickly found the couple guilty. Now, a judge in Hennepin County, Sarah West, has overturned that verdict.

“It’s reversing or overturning a jury’s verdict,” said defense attorney Joe Tamburino. Tamburino was not affiliated with Yusuf’s case but looked at the judge’s decision.

According to Tamburino, Judge West said the state’s cased relied “heavily on circumstantial evidence” and that the state did not “exclude other reasonable, rational inferences.”

“That, in fact, there could’ve been other reasonable theories other than guilt in this case. That’s what it comes down to,” Tamburino said.

Remind me again why we have juries.

There are a number of legal cases working their way through the courts involving Feeding Our Future. The writers at Power Line Blog have followed these cases (some recent examples here and here). The amount of fraud is unbelievable and people need to be held accountable.