{"id":83434,"date":"2022-09-21T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83434"},"modified":"2025-04-29T07:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:17:52","slug":"the-dfls-no-good-very-bad-day-part-iii-follow-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83434","title":{"rendered":"The DFL&#8217;s No Good, Very Bad Day (Part III):  Follow The Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Perhaps the biggest story of all dropped last.   US Attorney Andy Lugar released indictments <a href=\"https:\/\/sahanjournal.com\/news\/feeding-our-future-indictments-who-charged-food-fraud-minnesota\/\">against 47 (and later, 48) suspects<\/a> in the Feeding Our Future scandal &#8211; the scam funneling $250 million in federal COVID relief into, it&#8217;s alleged, the pockets of a series of local non-profits.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>he 48th indictment was allegedly a woman who was just about to head to Ethiopia on a one-way ticket &#8211; one who&#8217;d had the distinction of being the only one of the indicted who&#8217;d actually <em>fed <\/em>anyone.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A 48th person was indicted today, as she tried to flee the country.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uSCyuyUUdS\">https:\/\/t.co\/uSCyuyUUdS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bill Glahn (@billglahn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billglahn\/status\/1572437510042820608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The indicted include major donors to DFL candidates up through Ilhan Omar &#8211; and some key staffers for (as far as we know so far) Jacob Frey and others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond that?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This all took place on the watches of Keith Ellison and, especially, State Auditor Julie Blaha &#8211; who listed her main qualification for the job as &#8220;teaching kindergartners how to count&#8221;, four years ago.  She may just be out of her depth.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strong hunches bordering on fearless predications:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Twin Cities media will try to move along to a new news cycle ASAP.  <\/li><li>More DFL connections will become apparent, for those who are looking for them. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a very bad day for the DFL.  I needed that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the biggest story of all dropped last. US Attorney Andy Lugar released indictments against 47 (and later, 48) suspects in the Feeding Our Future scandal &#8211; the scam funneling $250 million in federal COVID relief into, it&#8217;s alleged, the pockets of a series of local non-profits. he 48th indictment was allegedly a woman who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,474,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-feeding-our-future","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83439,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83434\/revisions\/83439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}