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Inside the Somali fraud ring that turned money for hungry children in Minnesota into luxury empires
Daily Mail UK ^ | December 2, 2025 | JAMES REINL

Posted on 12/02/2025 1:29:12 AM PST by Morgana

Minnesota once prided itself on its Scandinavian-style safety net – high taxes, generous benefits and a shared belief that no child should ever go hungry.

But that image lies in ruins after a billion-dollar fraud spree that siphoned taxpayer money away from the needy and poured it straight into luxury mansions, high-end cars, overseas real estate and designer lifestyles.

What authorities first hoped was a one-off pandemic scam has now been exposed as something far bigger – and far uglier.

Federal prosecutors say that over the past five years, scores of scammers – many operating inside Minnesota’s Somali diaspora – stole more than $1 billion intended for feeding children, helping homeless families and providing autism therapy.

Instead, the money bankrolled G-Wagons, Teslas, Porsches, lakefront homes, Dubai shopping sprees and beachside resorts abroad.

Minnesotans are livid - and scared. Because this wasn’t a small-time hustle – it was a full-scale hijacking of the state’s famously trusting, famously generous social-services machine.

For decades, Minnesota welcomed immigrants, and poured taxes into the public good. The state drew tens of thousands of Somali refugees fleeing civil war. Most built families, careers and political influence.

But investigators say a small number saw something else: an open-tap of easy money.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: autism; corruption; democrats; dubai; feedingourfuture; greed; immigrants; immigration; luxurygoods; minnesota; realestate; shoppingsprees; socialservices; somalia; somalis; swindlers; theft; thieves; uae; waste; zerohardproof

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To: Morgana

Seems that Walz and dems were happy as long as they got their cuts.


21 posted on 12/02/2025 5:54:14 AM PST by chopperk
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To: Morgana

What other states are using the same fraud?


22 posted on 12/02/2025 6:42:42 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Liz

All this is a classic example of how a democratic republic can not work when the majority of the people are immoral, dishonest, corrupt criminals.


23 posted on 12/02/2025 6:46:33 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: bray

Columbus, Ohio has the second largest Somali population in the U.S. A once beautiful, clean and vibrant city has fallen.


24 posted on 12/02/2025 6:54:54 AM PST by Toespi
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To: Antoninus

All this Somali fraud is a classic example of how a democratic republic can NOT
work when the majority of the people are immoral, dishonest, corrupt criminals.


So true.


25 posted on 12/02/2025 7:21:04 AM PST by Liz ("Socialism is a wonderful idea. It's just that it's been disastrous" Thomas Sowell. )
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To: chopperk

That $1 billion was just used to energize the democrats base.


26 posted on 12/02/2025 7:31:12 AM PST by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: Morgana

Nothing will happen to any of them.


27 posted on 12/02/2025 7:31:35 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Liz

“...that siphoned taxpayer money away from the needy and poured it straight into luxury mansions, high-end cars, overseas real estate and designer lifestyles.”

Don’t forget all the money that went to Islamic groups that are slaughtering Christians all over Africa.


28 posted on 12/02/2025 10:52:17 AM PST by nhbob1
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