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MS NOW Host Downplays $1 Billion Minnesota Somali Welfare Fraud as 'Isolated'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelsein

Posted on 12/07/2025 4:52:46 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Just an isolated incident - anybody can accidentally leave $8 billion in their other pants. :)


21 posted on 12/07/2025 6:02:48 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: cnsmom

We have serious family roots in Ashland and Sawyer counties. Love getting back together in Hayward and Ashland. Will be doing so in May to bury my Dad’s cremation remains next to my mother’s at Mount Hope Cemetery in Ashland. Bittersweet. They both had fabulous long lives . . .92 and 97. Married 70 years. Why am I writing this on a Minnesota fraud story?


22 posted on 12/07/2025 6:07:21 AM PST by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: Political Junkie Too

After the Somalis dismembered, burned, and desecrated the remains of US Army personnel trying to help them back in 1993, we should have cut off permanently all immigration from that particular failed state.


23 posted on 12/07/2025 6:13:37 AM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And on this date in 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor was just an isolated incident too.


24 posted on 12/07/2025 6:21:54 AM PST by omni-scientist
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To: omni-scientist

Oh, and of course, calling the “Japs” responsible was racist.


25 posted on 12/07/2025 6:24:49 AM PST by omni-scientist
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If a thieving Somali stole 10 bucks from Alemany, she’d be singing a different tune.

FTA

On MS NOW’s “The Weekend,” co-host Jackie Alemany says
Pres Trump’s criticism of Somali fraud is “just more bigotry.”
<><>She “explained” that Trump has “ historically used isolated instances to justify bigotry
<><>and that Trump generalized with extremely broad brushstrokes.
<><>Then she made it worse,
<><>asserting that a billion tax dollar Somali fraud was “isolated.”


26 posted on 12/07/2025 6:27:38 AM PST by Liz ("Socialism is a wonderful idea. It's just that it's been disastrous" Thomas Sowell. )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I guess using that logic, the Holocaust was “Isolated” too. Nothing to see here, move along.


27 posted on 12/07/2025 6:27:51 AM PST by silent majority rising ( United Israel - Judea, Samaria, and Gaza - US get out of the UN-we are not United with them.)
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To: BradyLS

I heard 8 billion


28 posted on 12/07/2025 6:27:53 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Downplay all you want. Tell the taxpayers of Minnesota that it was "no big deal."

Federal officials say a sweeping fraud investigation in Minnesota has revealed what they describe as the largest theft of taxpayer money in United States history, involving more than $1 billion in public funds and at least 86 suspects

29 posted on 12/07/2025 7:14:05 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Oh look it’s a Bag of Rocks


30 posted on 12/07/2025 7:25:23 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What will she say when Open AI implodes and takes $40 trillion with it ,LOL


31 posted on 12/07/2025 7:26:16 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I see. Well just how many $1 Billion fraud cases does it take where it is not an isolated instance?


32 posted on 12/07/2025 7:37:09 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

>>MS NOW Host Downplays $1 Billion Minnesota Somali Welfare Fraud as ‘Isolated’<<

Isolated to Minnesota maybe.

(but I doubt it)


33 posted on 12/07/2025 7:38:08 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Isolated cases: Ok...these people got caught... (But not the others who are still doing it!) That the isolated cases... The fraud still going on...


34 posted on 12/07/2025 7:48:32 AM PST by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Well, it's because there weren't enough safeguards and/or guardrails in place to stop it.

/s

35 posted on 12/07/2025 7:51:58 AM PST by OKSooner (We are all mortal... But Jim and his website have made a significant difference in my life. RIP)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They *MUST* try to pitch this as isolated. SO many of their candidates depend on donations from this fraud. If it were to be all cut out, it’d be like USAID part 2.


36 posted on 12/07/2025 8:09:56 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Even by MSNBC NOW whatever standards. Jackie Alemany is a stupid bimbo.


37 posted on 12/07/2025 8:12:22 AM PST by GOPJ (Soros & democrats back criminals, dope dealers, illegals & terrorists. <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Reports say a bunch of people were involved in this swindle. So, not isolated.


38 posted on 12/07/2025 8:29:24 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“somebody did someting”


39 posted on 12/07/2025 8:30:15 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (there are demons out there, and they look like people)
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To: albie

“Mistakes were made.”


40 posted on 12/07/2025 8:30:46 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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