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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.
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Seems that Walz and dems were happy as long as they got their cuts.
What other states are using the same fraud?
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.
Columbus, Ohio has the second largest Somali population in the U.S. A once beautiful, clean and vibrant city has fallen.
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.
That $1 billion was just used to energize the democrats base.
Nothing will happen to any of them.
“...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.
There was a fairly large Somali presence in the Portland Maine area. Wonder if they are perpetrating the same fraud there? I doubt the woke Maine social services are monitoring them closely.
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