Just days after the FBI and the Department of Justice released the “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list, an arrest was made of a former Minneapolis grocery store owner. […]
The FBI arrested a Somali-born man accused of stealing $4 million from a federal food program for children in need through his participation in the nation’s largest COVID-era scam. FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday that 47-year-old Said Abdullahi Ereg surrendered to federal authorities after being wanted since 2024 on fraud charges. Ereg was placed ...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation says a federal fraud suspect turned himself in after being placed on the newly created "Most Wanted Fraudsters" list.Said Abdullahi Ereg was indicted in the Feeding Our Future scam in June 2024, but the U.S. District Attorney's office said he was living overseas and his exact whereabouts were unknown.Prosecutors say Ereg falsely claimed to have served '3,000 meals, twice a day, seven days a week' as part of the scheme.Ereg turned himself in just one day after the fraudsters list was announced.Prosecutors claim Ereg received more than $4.2 million in funds from the Federal Child Nutrition Program after submitting false reimbursement claims through a deli and grocery business he owned in Minneapolis.Ereg's Evergreen Grocery and Deli participated in the "Feeding Our Future" program, allowing Ereg to allegedly scam the government beginning about April 2020 and lasting until about April 2021, coinciding with the COVID pandemic.Prosecutors say Ereg falsely claimed to have served "3,000 meals, twice a day, seven days a week" as part of the scheme. His wife, Najmo Ahmed, also received payments directly from Feeding Our Future.The couple spent the money they allegedly stole on Burberry, Louis Vuitton, and Canada Goose, and also allegedly transferred about $2.5 million to foreign accounts. Ereg was indicted on charges that included conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. His wife pleaded guilty in Feb. 2025 to one charge of money laundering and is scheduled to be sentenced on Monday.FBI Minneapolis Field Office Special Agent Chris Dotson said at a media briefing Wednesday that Ereg was one of the first eight people put on the fraudsters list, which was published within the last week.RELATED: 'Feeding Our Future' scam artist agrees to plea deal with a slap-on-the-wrist sentence "Today's apprehension of Said Abdullahi Ereg, a fugitive on the FBI's Most Wanted Fraudsters List, highlights the collective commitment of the DOJ, FBI, IRS, and USPIS, along with our USAO to bring every alleged fraudster to justice," Dotson said."FBI Minneapolis will be nominating more fugitives to this Most Wanted Fraudsters list," he added.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
The European Central Bank became the first central bank to raise interest rates over inflation brought by the war with Iran. The bank announced on Thursday that it was raising three key ECB interest rates by 25 basis points to keep inflation under control at 2% in the medium term. The ECB was a natural […]
The European Central Bank raised interest rates for the first time in almost three years, concluding it can no longer ignore the upswing in inflation caused by the Iran war. The deposit rate was lifted to 2.25% from 2%. Bloomberg's Oliver Crook reports from Frankfurt. (Source: Bloomberg)
The House rejected a short-term extension of a government spy program set to lapse in just one day. The House voted 198-218, with 19 Republicans joining nearly every Democrat against the three-week patch of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The bill would have needed a two-thirds majority to pass under an expedited […]
Members of Congress are scrambling to jump on the growing anti-data center fervor sweeping through local communities across the country. Why it matters: Where there is this kind of intense grassroots uproar, there is also political opportunity — and lawmakers know it.The latest example is legislation from Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) to restrict companies' ability to sue municipalities for rejecting applications to build data centers.The bill — called "the Local Control Protection Act" — would also require developers to file a legally binding "community benefit agreement" or lose out on federal tax incentives, per legislative text first shared with Axios.State of play: Growing public anxiety about the rapid growth of AI is fueling bitter fights at the local level to stop data centers from being built, Axios' Madison Mills reported.Objections include alleged environmental damage, high energy usage and resultant utility cost increases, and noise, air and water pollution.More than 350,000 people signed a petition opposing a proposed data center bordering the Nashville Zoo, according to Axios' Nate Rau.In Seattle, local officials have moved to ban new large data centers for a year, Axios' Melissa Santos wrote.By the numbers: Legislative proposals to restrict data center construction were fairly rare on Capitol Hill before this year. Now, Republicans and Democrats alike are flooding the zone.In the last three months alone, more than a dozen bills have been introduced to either investigate data centers' impacts or restrict their proliferation in some way.Between the lines: It's not just toothless bills to commission reports and studies — though there are those too, looking at resource consumption, environmental ramifications and the effects on communities of color.Several proposals aim to protect consumers from any energy cost spikes that result from data center production.Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has introduced a bill to impose an outright moratorium on new data center construction "until legislation is enacted that safeguards the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence."What they're saying: "We should never let billion-dollar corporations supersede the voices of those who live in the community," Bresnahan, one of Republicans' most endangered incumbents, said in statement."The people who live here, work here, and raise their families here are the ones who know what's best for our communities."Reality check: The prospect of any of these bills passing is slim — Congress has notoriously made scant progress in passing any guardrails on AI.And as Axios previously reported, AI and AI-adjacent companies are spending big through super PACs in the 2026 midterms to curry favor with sitting lawmakers and get allies elected to Congress.
Florida man Robert Dillon filed a lawsuit against police for what he believes is a wrongful arrest from an artificial intelligence facial recognition error. In 2023, Dillon […]
One of the FBI's most wanted fraud suspects in the massive Feeding Our Future scandal has finally returned to face justice. The post Somali Fraudster Said Abdullahi Ereg Surrenders to the FBI After Fleeing to Kenya — First Arrest from the New Most Wanted Fraudsters List appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.