Feeding Our Fraud: The Omar angle [MN fraud trial]

I attended the Feeding-Our-Future trial from opening statements on Monday through adjournment for the weekend yesterday at noon. This is the second of the cases to come to trial. The indictment charged a total of 70 defendants with fraud, but this trial features the all-stars: ringleader Aimee Bock, founder and executive director of Feeding Our Future, and Salim Said, co-owner of two grossly fraudulent sites, Safari-Restaurant (just off Lake Street in Minneapolis) and ASA-Limited (small storefront at a Maplewood strip mall). Two of the co-defendants in this case pleaded guilty on January 28. [snip] By October 2020, Safari claimed to...