A video posted by conservative content material creator Nick Shirley final month featured disputed claims of fraud in opposition to particular day care facilities however the bigger concern of fraudulent use of presidency funds in Minnesota’s Somali group has been investigated for years, and allegations the Walz administration didn’t do sufficient to cease it helped result in the top of his reelection campaign.
The first blockbuster fraud investigation was revealed in 2022, when the Justice Department introduced indictments in opposition to folks related to Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit group which allegedly pocketed cash that was speculated to be going to feed needy youngsters in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Charges have been introduced in opposition to extra 78 folks related to the group, based on the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota, with greater than $300 million misplaced. The overwhelming majority of these indicted are of Somali ancestry, though the group’s founder – who prosecutors have called the “mastermind” of the deception – shouldn’t be.
In addition to Feeding Our Future, federal indictments have been introduced in opposition to no less than 20 different folks accused in fraud circumstances associated to housing and autism providers, Assistant US Attorney Melinda Williams advised NCS final week.
President Donald Trump has referred to as Minnesota a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity” in Minnesota, announcing plans in November to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Somali residents within the state. In December, ICE launched operations within the Minneapolis-St. Paul space to particularly goal undocumented Somali immigrants.