Feeding our Future: Feds allege gang affiliation and citizenship discrepancy [Video]

MINNEAPOLIS — The “main event,” so to speak, in the Feeding our Future case is coming up, as four defendants set to stand trial include a former aid to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, the former owners of Safari Restaurant — considered to be top businessmen in Minneapolis’ Somali community, and Aimee Bock — the former executive director of the nonprofit Feeding our Future.

The building off Lake Street in South Minneapolis that housed Safari Restaurant has been painted over and repurposed. But in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the restaurant claimed to have served more than 3.9 million meals to children in a 19-month span, even using Congresswoman Ilhan Omar in a promotional video in an alleged attempt to show legitimacy as a participant in the …