Minnesota Nonprofit BOUGHT A $2.6M Mansion With Taxpayer Cash As Fraud Trial EXPOSES Its $2.9M Meal$

A Minnesota nonprofit bought the historic Gale Mansion in Minneapolis for $2.6 million in 2022, and the state paid $1.5 million of it through a taxpayer grant. Now the house is headed for a December auction. The group reports zero employees, its phones are out of service and its website says "account suspended." Evidence prosecutors showed a federal jury links the nonprofit to food sites in the $250 million Feeding Our Future case, and the state says it was never told the mortgage went into default.

No one at the nonprofit has been charged with a crime, and nothing in the meal case has been proven against it. Its executive director says the group is working toward a responsible resolution. Abdiaziz Farah was convicted in the separate Empire Cuisine case.

KSTP 5 Eyewitness News, Nov. 6 and Nov. 7, 2026 Minnesota Reformer, May 23, 2024 KARE 11, FOX 9 and NBC News coverage of the 2024 Feeding Our Future trial Center of the American Experiment, April 2024 and Nov. 2026 Mansion photo: McGhiever / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

In this report

• How Somali Community Resettlement Services went from $499,000 a year to more than $4.1 million
• The eight meal sites it sponsored, and the $1.1 million trial evidence says it kept
• The Empire Cuisine trial, where a juror was handed $120,000 in a gift bag
• The $6.5 million in bills that were pulled in 2024
• The $1.5 million state grant, and the default notice the state says it never got

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