A concerned Minnesota homeowner—who will be referred to as “Rick” for safety reasons—had some suspicions about things he noticed in his Savage neighborhood.
He spoke with Liz Collin on her podcast and explained some of the concerns that led him to start asking questions and discover some shocking answers.
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“It’s probably been two or three years and there’s one home that stands out specifically and they’ve always had a unique collection of high-end cars—so that’s kind of what brought my attention to that home,” Rick said.
But after watching videos about fraud in Minnesota, Rick said, “the Nick Shirley stuff was kind of correlating” with some of the things he observed in his own neighborhood.
That’s when Rick started looking up some of the addresses in his neighborhood and discovered they were associated with transportation service companies, a food prep company, and an adult home care center.
But Rick said that something else really stood out: the lack of any activity at these addresses—especially anything that seemed like business activity.
“There’s eight homes. They’re all within a two-block radius … So, all of them were either non-emergency transportation service or in-home adult care or the food preparation and a couple of them immediately showed links to Feeding Our Future,” Rick explained.
One of the homes was occupied by Abdiaziz Farah, who was sentenced to 28 years in prison last August for his role in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. He also admitted to attempting to bribe a juror.
Forfeiture proceedings have apparently started on the nearly $600,000 home, according to government records.
“I didn’t know that he [Farah] actually lived in this neighborhood until I had been driving by, and I later learned that the FBI had done its third raid there. But it was a bunch of unmarked vehicles and then maybe 10 or 12 and then the street was blocked off,” Rick recalled.
When discussing the non-emergency medical transportation companies in the area, Rick said, “none of the vehicles were leaving … even like in the wintertime—it would snow and it would snow on the vehicle and then all around the vehicle and the snow never got cleared off. It would just sit there until it melted. There were two, three, four weeks at a time that the snow would just sit on the car, so it just showed that these vehicles were not moving.”
Rick even explained how he called one of the medical transport vans for a ride after seeing online that the company had allegedly logged millions of miles.
“The phone number was on a decal on the side of the van. So, I called it and somebody answered … And I asked if I could schedule a ride to a doctor’s appointment. And immediately they’re like, ‘Nope, we’re all booked up.’ I’m like, ‘Well, I didn’t even give you the date and the time yet.’ She says, ‘We’re booked up’ and then hung up on me. And the van is sitting right there,” Rick said.
Other telling signs became obvious during Operation Metro Surge, when thousands of ICE agents conducted federal law enforcement in Minnesota.
“All those exotic cars, the high-end vehicles, right when Operation Metro Surge started in Minneapolis, they all just vanished, they disappeared. About a month and a half later, when they started announcing that they’re going to withdraw out of Minneapolis, they all magically reappeared again. When they disappeared for that month and a half, they were kind of replaced with a Nissan Altima or a Honda or something—it wasn’t the high-end cars anymore,” Rick remarked.
With all that he has seen, Rick said he reached out to state and federal investigators back in January and told them about his findings.
Rick said state investigators called him back about a month later. Records reviewed by Alpha News show that Rick provided DHS investigators with the eight addresses and the names of the people and businesses involved on Jan. 23.
Rick also said that while they told him that an investigation was underway, he was disappointed to hear that it was going to take some time.
“It sounded like they were going to start going to some of these addresses, but she said it’s going to be a little while because there were 5,000 of them that they were having to go through,” Rick recalled.
“It just really does blow my mind,” Rick said about the rampant fraud in Minnesota, “but it’s almost as mind-blowing that it continues to happen even to this date.”
“I’m frustrated beyond belief, you know, I guess I’m trying to do as much as I can within reason—calling you and calling different government agencies and just hoping that maybe something will stick. If we can keep shedding light on this, maybe it’ll stay on the front burner and things will happen,” he said.
Alpha News reached out to the Minnesota Department of Human Services regarding Rick’s information and the addresses in his neighborhood. A spokesperson provided a rather telling reply: “To protect the integrity of investigations, the data practices act makes investigative data confidential while an investigation is pending.”
Liz Collin
Liz Collin is a multi-Emmy-Award-winning investigative reporter, news anchor, and producer who cares about Minnesota. She is the producer of The Fall of Minneapolis and Minnesota v We the People documentary films, and author of the Amazon best-selling book, They’re Lying: The Media, the Left, and The Death of George Floyd. Her work has prompted important state laws. Yet perhaps most of all, Liz has been giving a voice to the truth—and helping others tell their stories—for more than 20 years.
Dr. JC Chaix
Dr. JC Chaix is an editor, educator, and an expert in media studies. He wrote and directed the Alpha News documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" and "Minnesota v We the People."
