A Minnesota “grocery store owner” was charged yesterday with $1 million dollars in EBT food stamp fraud.

Abdid Wahid Mohamed, the owner of Minnesota Food Grocery LLC, allegedly used EBT cards registered to others to purchase items at Sam’s Club and Costco in 2021 before turning around and reselling them in his store, Fox 9 Minneapolis reported.

Authorities in Hennepin County say they observed Mohamed making purchases and followed him back to his store with the goods. Surveillance footage and GPS data backed this up, while investigators noted that many of the EBT cardholders were either out of the country or say they never shopped at the stores he used. “-Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News

There’s the Daycare fraud…

There was Ilhan Omar’s “winery”. The Housing Stabilisation Services (HSS) program. The Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioural Intervention (EIDBI) autism-services program.

The numbers are enormous. The tactics were intricate. And the stakes, investigators warn, stretch from Minneapolis to Mogadishu.

Federal officials now describe the state as facing one of the largest welfare-fraud waves in U.S. history, with some stolen funds allegedly reaching al-Shabaab, the Somali terrorist group.

The scale of the fraud is staggering. However, the intricacies of the scheme unveil a more profound issue – a sophisticated system that exploited compassion and transformed state programmes into global cash conduits.”-Getty Soila, Gottanews

Now, one million dollars in SNAP/EBT fraud is just a drop in the bucket when compared to hundreds of millions of dollars but it’s still abuse of a federal program that is designed to help families in need.

But while some Somali shysters tried to mask their millions behind a “Quality Learning Center”, either Abdidwahid Mohamed is that dumb or he simply doesn’t care about stealing in plain sight under the guise of “Minnesota Food Grocery, LLC“.

i'm so done with this kind of thing happening in our country

my grandma lives in minnesota and she's always talking about how bad the fraud is there

it's like they're not even trying to hide it anymore.

— GOP Patriot Girl 🇺🇸 (@gopatriotgirl) May 12, 2026

We had this guy, Abdi Mohamed, and he named his scam company ‘Minnesota Food Grocery LLC.’ They aren’t even trying, because they have been conditioned to believe there are no consequences.”- Senator. Mark Koran, R, Minn.

Not even trying to conceal the level of fraud. They are, again, doing this in plain sight. What says Amy Klobachar?

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— Bobby (@BlackduckBobby) May 12, 2026

Tim Walz’s office was also reached for comment. No comments whatsoever. Shocked, I tell you I am.

It’s laughable that SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Back in the day, we called it “food stamps”. SNAP has come a long way since blocks of government cheese. Now, “recipients” can give their cards to their fellow Somali “cousins”, make a run and get cases of Monster from Sam’s Club to mark up for sale in their convenience stores. More cheddar. Abdid Wahid Mohamed used EBT cards of recipients who were out-of-country for his Sam’s Club haul. If you’re pausing to re-read the previous sentence that I just wrote, yes. These recipients were OUT OF COUNTRY. For how long? Who knows? But they still received SNAP benefits. And Abdid the Grocery Store Owner? Well, he could do up to 20 years in prison or be hit with a $100,000 fine for this fraud. How much do any of you want to wager that he’ll walk away from 20 years in the slammer, get the fine and chalk it up to the cost of doing business? He’ll live another day in this great country of ours selling overpriced energy drinks from his “store”.

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— NovemberRain 🇺🇸 (@NovemberRain243) May 12, 2026

For sure, this is not your grandmother’s Minnesota. This is not ice-fishing Jack Lemmon and Walter Mattau’s Minnesota. This is the Minnesota ushered in by Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar, Amy Klobuchar and Keith Ellison, to name a few. I see a new version of Monopoly coming soon. Forget Boardwalk and Park Place. The person who buys the daycare, the winery, the Safari Restaurant and the grocery store and builds upon it makes bank and wins the game. We can call it Somaliopoly.

Joking aside, it may be high time that rules for SNAP recipients change. Honestly, the whole system nationwide needs an overhaul. For starters, applying in person and demonstrating a need for the benefits could be a viable option for curbing this fraud and should be a mandate in the future. Sending the fraudsters back to Somalia may be a close second solution. No court appearances. No prison time. No fines. Do not pass GO. Do not collect SNAP. Go (back) to Somalia, Go directly (back) to Somalia. Let’s start with Ilhan. We’ll even give her one of Abdid Wahid Mohamed’s Monsters for the journey and maybe she can take a few friends with her. I, for one, volunteer the ever-so-silent on the matter Mr. and Mrs. Walz. We know they’d prefer China, but I am sure Gwen would welcome the smell of burning “touchstone” tires on the streets of Mogadishu.

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