A new investigation has drawn a direct line between Rep. Ilhan Omars sister, Sahra Noor, and key figures in Minnesotas sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, raising fresh questions about political connections, government oversight, and the misuse of taxpayer dollars.
According to The Post Millennial, the probe, originally conducted by the Daily Wire, found that Noor incorporated one of her businesses at a modest home in Lakeview, Minnesota, a property now emerging as a central node in the alleged fraud network. The woman residing at the Hyacinth Avenue address, along with the address itself, was described by investigators as lynchpins tying together at least three Feeding Our Future convicts, suggesting that what appeared to be an ordinary residence functioned as a hub for entities later implicated in the scheme.
The company Noor registered there, Grit Partners Consulting, is presented as a high-level health consulting firm that has secured more than $20 million in funding for health initiatives, and has worked on projects backed by federal agencies including the CDC and USAID. Grit Partners was formally incorporated at the Hyacinth Avenue home, placing Noors business operations squarely within the same orbit as several defendants in the Feeding Our Future case.
The Hyacinth residence is occupied by Mashah Ahmed Ali and his wife, Ister (also known as Ismahan) Ahmed Afraa, whose business activities intersect repeatedly with the fraud network. Afraa co-founded a company called Sunrise Business Center with associate Hanna Marekegn, who in 2022 pleaded guilty to wire fraud in the Feeding Our Future scheme after stealing $7 million while falsely claiming to feed 4,000 children per day and using the funds to purchase a mansion.
Afraa also incorporated Sunshine Care Center MN, Inc., which shared the same office address as Sunrise Business Center, further tightening the web of overlapping entities. The Hyacinth address was additionally used as the incorporation address for the Diversity Childcare Center, another organization later linked to the scandal.
Afraas connections extend to Feeding Our Future ringleader Aimee Bock, who has been sentenced to 41 years in prison for orchestrating the massive fraud. State records from the Minnesota Department of Health listed Bock as a point of contact for both Sunshine Care Center LLC and the Diversity Childcare Center, underscoring how these entities were embedded within the broader network Bock controlled.
In state investigative documents, Bock stated that the unnamed head of Sunshine Care Center had been introduced to Feeding Our Future by Sahra Nur, a reference widely understood to be Noor. Nur and Afraa reportedly maintained close ties, and Nur herself was sentenced to four years in prison, illustrating how personal and professional relationships overlapped in the exploitation of federal nutrition programs.
Afraa was also listed as CEO of Aflah Property Inc., which operated out of Nurs Fordham Court address, another property now under scrutiny. That same Fordham address appeared in a $30,000 tax lien filed against Afraa and was used as the registered location for at least 17 different companies associated with Feeding Our Future, a pattern consistent with efforts to obscure ownership and accountability.
Nur owned S & S Catering, a firm that claimed to have produced more than eight million meals but was later found to have fabricated invoices. Despite the fraud, the company was reimbursed over $12 million by the government, a stark example of how lax oversight and expansive welfare programs can be exploited at enormous cost to taxpayers.
Per Breitbart, Noor has reportedly relocated to Africa and now runs Grit Partners from Kenya, continuing her work in the international aid and health funding space. Her husband, Mohamed Keynan, previously held a position with the Minnesota Department of Human Services before moving abroad, later serving as chief of staff to then-Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre and as a policy advisor to then-President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, roles that place him at the intersection of Western aid money and Somali politics.
For his part, homeowner Mashah Ahmed Ali has denied any knowledge of the companies registered to his address or to his wife, telling the Daily Wire, There must be some sort of scam going on, I have no idea. He further insisted, For the last 10 years I have a professional job, I have nothing to do with anything, a claim that, if true, underscores how easily progressive welfare programs and federal grant pipelines can be manipulated through shell entities and opaque partnerships, all while ordinary taxpayers are left footing the bill.
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