Feeding our fraud: It took jurors less than five hours to convict Aimee Bock and Salim Said on 28 counts of wire fraud, federal programs bribery, money laundering, and related conspiracy counts in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, dubbed “the shame of Minnesota” by assistant U.S. attorney Joe Thompson. Altogether a cast of almost
What happens when you cross a Third-World tribal culture with an urban Democratic establishment? You can probably guess the outcome, but in Minnesota we don’t have to guess. We have seen it on display in the sprawling Feeding Our Future case that represents the largest COVID fraud discovered so far in the United States. A
Muslim Americans in Public Service’s ties to terrorist supporters could raise concerns about its efforts to place employees inside government L: MAPS leader Ahmad Maaty (LinkedIn) R: CAIR executive director Nihad Awad (Getty Images) Muslim Americans in Public Service is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that coordinates with federal agencies to help Muslims obtain and advance
Having spent the last week poring over the JFK files, I can tell you the biggest question remains unanswered: Oswald’s coworker Bonnie Ray Williams says right before the assassination he was having a fried chicken sandwich. But Williams also says the chicken was bone in. Who eats a bone-in chicken sandwich? And who would serve
Curzio Malaparte was the Ernst Jünger of the Italians. They were born three years apart, Jünger in 1895 and Malaparte in 1898, and the outlines of their biographies are oddly similar. The son of a bourgeois businessman becomes the soldier who fights with honor in World War I. He returns from the trenches as a
Homestand is a book about baseball, and the author is a Mets fan. Thus, Homestand is a book about loss. It’s not only about loss, of course, and the Mets are only in the background. The 2022 Batavia Muckdogs, the centerpiece of Homestand, win most of their games, including an exciting playoff run. And Homestand
Communications lecturer Dwayne Booth kept teaching at Ivy League school after he published blood libel cartoon (asc.upenn.edu; Dwayne Booth cartoon) The University of Pennsylvania has laid off its communications lecturer—who published a slew of anti-Semitic cartoons—just a year after standing by him, citing the school’s “bedrock commitment to open expression.” The dismissal coincided with the