The Midwest mother who masterminded the roughly $250 million Somali-linked fraud in Minnesota was sentenced to more than 41 years in prison on Thursday morning.

Is it harsh? Yes, Should it be more? Maybe.

Is it a longer sentence than some murderers get? Yes, but that isn’t the issue. (although sentences for murder need to be addressed also)

At the end of it, a sentence like this should be a punishment AND a deterrent for others.

Now if only the rest of her co-conspirators get the same treatment.

It isn’t like the folks that approved the payments could not have noticed that her charity just sprung up overnight and was suddenly “serving 91 million meals” in just a few moths time….They had to be in on it somehow….This wasn’t just one woman’s creation.

Those officials who approved the payments need some judicial love as well.

I bet half (or more) of her partners are back in whatever shithole country they came from….now with millions of (US Taxpayer) dollars to live comfortably with.