Posted on 12/21/2025 10:27:38 AM PST by Libloather
Minnesota’s sprawling fraud crisis has garnered national headlines in recent weeks, but several critics say the problem festered for years, aided by local media that appeared uninterested in holding people in power accountable.
“In newsrooms, they’re told, ‘We can’t run that because we’re going to be accused of being racist,’” Townhall columnist Dustin Grage recently told Fox News Digital about news outlets in Minnesota essentially enabling the fraud by not calling out shocking taxpayer waste occurring primarily within the local Somali community.
The outlet that is considered by many the top news source in the region, the Minnesota Star Tribune, has faced criticism on social media in recent days over some of its headlines, including “Minnesota Somali community grapples with fraud cases while pushing back against stereotypes” on Nov. 26 and “Trump claims Minnesota lost billions to fraud. The evidence to date isn’t close” on Dec. 11.
On Thursday, federal prosecutors held a press conference where they revealed that the true scope of the fraud scandal could end up costing taxpayers around $9 billion, prompting some conservatives on social media to point out the Dec. 11 headline.
“The Minnesota Star Tribune masquerades as a newspaper,” The Post’s Miranda Devine posted on X. “It’s actually a Democrat front, hiding news, twisting facts, lying outright. One of the worst in the country.”
Additionally, the paper’s CEO is Steve Grove, who served as Gov. Tim Walz’s former commissioner of employment and economic development, which has sparked criticism from some who say that the paper is hesitant to pin Walz to the fraud crisis.
Fox News Digital spoke to several locals who argued that media outlets either didn’t cover the scandal thoroughly enough or, in cases where it was covered, Walz’s oversight role was downplayed.
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Minniesomalia is the world’s newest Chicago. All thieves and criminals.
You’re racist for posting this article. /I’ll capitalize SARCASM so no one misses it.
If it is really that much they should be able to get some of it back.
They're not afraid of being accused of being racist. They're afraid of losing control of the narrative. (read tagline)
$9B is roughly 2/3 the price of an aircraft carrier.
Works every time!
Please...
Not only would the Red Star Tribune fail to cover this out of fear of being waciss..
They would have lead the waciss charge.
Even the local Fox affiliates would have either joined in or stayed mute.
You don’t steal billions without a whole lotta help and these people are just as guilty
Racist, Islamophobe, transphobe, homophobe, - any rational person should laugh in the face of anyone calling them these words.
Absolutely shocking to me how well they’ve worked to enable the stealing of billions, maybe trillions of $ and the destruction of our culture.
Time to start throwing Walz and his Minniesomalians and refugee Congress critters (Omar) in prison.
I would bet the fraud is ten times that and easily that 9 billion a year on the Somali rapefugee scams.
So instead, they'll write "Republicans pounce" stories after the fact.
-PJ
Time for Ilham and her brother to do the perp walk. Alligator Alcatraz.
Suitcases full of cash moving through the airports back to Somalia and NO ONE SAID A THING
We’ll never see a democrat actually held accountable, unless they cross the democrats red line, then they turn on their own.
See my tag line.
You’re a Thief , that’s racist ,LOL
The Trump Christmas present to military, $1776 for each one is worth just $2.5 billions.
Lot less that Tim Waltz’es “Gift” to Somalia!
Hah! The politically connected that ran the thievery schemes are deflecting blame onto a weak media for their own malfeasance. And the same media will allow them to get away with it.
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