Impeaching AG Keith Ellison Minnesota

providing for the impeachment of Keith Ellison. Members, under Article 8, Section 2 of the Minnesota Constitution, the Attorney General may be impeached for corrupt conduct in office. A clear violation of his constitutional oath, including the failure to faithfully execute the laws or any dishonest conduct, is more than enough grounds for this House to act upon the following allegations. The people of Minnesota deserve to know why their Attorney General sat down with individuals tied directly to the Feeding Our Future fraud network, offered to shield them from investigators, and then took their money. On December 11, 2021, while the FBI had already been investigating Feeding Our Future for eight full months, Attorney General Keith Ellison met with a group directly tied to the fraud network at an off-site location. On the secret audio recording of that meeting, Ikram Mohamed, who later pleaded guilty to wire fraud, specifically talked about Safari Restaurant, Afro Deli, and the Feeding Our Future network. She described key elements of how the fraud network operated and complained about state agency scrutiny. I urge everyone to listen to that recording in its entirety. Instead of supporting the state agencies trying to stop the fraud, Mr. Ellison told them he was very concerned and said the matter has my attention and that just an inquiry from the AG's office is enough to make them knock it off. He offered to help push back against the very agencies he is sworn to defend. The individuals even gave him the personal name of the official to target at MDE in order to help cover up their activities. Nine days later, on December 20, 2021, $10,000 in campaign donations flowed into his campaign and family PACs from people tied directly to that meeting, including the brother of Ikram Mohamed, Ghandi Youssef Mohamed, who just last week pleaded guilty to money laundering. This meeting was not constituent service. It has the clear appearance of corrupt conduct in office. The state's top law enforcement officer sided with people tied to an active fraud probe against the agencies his office represents. Minnesotans lost hundreds of millions of dollars meant for children's meals while the attorney general accepted donations from that same network that stole the money. In February 2026, when confronted under oath by U .S. Senator Josh Hawley, Attorney General Keith Ellison looked him in the eye and he denied taking their money. That statement was false. Ellison denied taking campaign contributions from the fraud network nine separate times during that exchange. It appears he lied under oath before Congress, which is a violation of 18 U.S.C. 1621. Again, the people's lawyer met with suspects in his official capacity as Attorney General, then they pledged to give money to his campaign. He then offered to run interference against state agencies investigating the fraudsters. Even going as far as texting his staff during the meeting to look into this. Days later, he received maxed out donations from the network. When directly asked by a U.S. Senator this last February the attorney general denied taking the money. The records members, I have included in your packets a spreadsheet from his campaign finance report showing the donations received, along with an article showing he returned the money nearly four years later after intense public scrutiny. I urge the committee to move forward with this motion, Mr. Chair. Members, we have a historic amount of fraud taking place in our state. Historic actions are warranted. Minnesota deserves accountability and transparency with its constitutional officers. To those who would argue that the Attorney General knew nothing of the fraud, Chairman James Comer's House Oversight Committee heard testimony from multiple whistleblowers, including current state employees. Many of these individuals, some of them Democrats, testified under oath that Governor Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison knew about the Feeding Our Future fraud as early as 2019 and 2020, yet deliberately turned a blind eye while $300 million of taxpayers' money vanished. They also reported being retaliated against. These brave individuals deserve our gratitude, not condemnation. As a former investigator in the Medicaid fraud division within the Attorney General's office, Kaysa Magan wrote that top Democrats suffered from a feckless fear of being called racist or Islamophobic. He stated that Walz and Ellison's image has been tarnished because politicians looked the other way, while fraudsters exploited both the Somali community and the state's political cowardice. Now that's coming from someone who worked in the Attorney General's office. Feeding our future defense attorney, Ryan Pasiga, told the New York Times, no one was doing anything about the red flags. It was like someone was stealing money from the cookie jar and they kept refilling it. I have included pertinent articles and documents to back up all of these claims. As you do your due diligence to investigate these findings, you will clearly see that this was not incompetence. It was a choice, a political choice, that cost Minnesota taxpayers billions of dollars. Members, we have the opportunity to do what is right and hold our constitutional officers accountable. Thank you.