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Another massive Minnesota fraud
Powerline ^ | July 16, 2025 | Scott Johnson

Posted on 07/16/2025 4:57:54 PM PDT by T Ruth

FBI agents are out executing search warrants at eight locations around the Twin Cities in yet another massive state benefit fraud case involving — I’m just going to say it — Somali perpetrators. This [July 16, 2025] is day one of the case going public. I have embedded one of the eight unsealed search warrant affidavits below via Scribd — all 81 pages of it. What January 20, 2021 was to the Feeding Our Future case, July 16, 2025 is to this case. No charges have yet been brought. Today the authorities are gathering physical evidence.

The state of Minnesota was a pioneer in a new state Medicaid benefit — housing stabilization services. No problem there, except for its obvious vulnerability to fraud. According to the affidavit, they have cranked it up over at the Griggs-Midway Building on University Avenue in St. Paul in a big way.

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I will be reusing the thumbnail photo of Guhaad Hashi. I first became aware of Hashi as Ilhan Omar’s enforcer in the Somali community. He subsequently appeared as a defendant in the Feeding Our Future fraud case. But of course. In the photo Hashi is instructing the local community to keep quiet about Omar’s frauds.

This investigation is conducted by federal authorities under the leadership of Acting United States Attorney Joe Thompson. The apparent fraud in issue here has gone on for several years now. Where was Tim Walz? Where was Keith Ellison? In Minnesota, fraud on the state is a growth business. That much I can tell you.

Joe [Thompson] called the Feeding Our Future case “the shame of Minnesota.” What we have here is more of the same.

(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: ellison; guhaadhashi; somali; somalia
The 81-page search warrant is accessible at the link.
1 posted on 07/16/2025 4:57:54 PM PDT by T Ruth
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To: T Ruth

Ilhan’s enforcer? Maybe she’ll be getting her just desserts soon. She ought to be under investigation for immigration fraud.


2 posted on 07/16/2025 5:06:22 PM PDT by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: T Ruth

The truth is people in other parts of the world need to be MMMMM resourceful to use a nice word in order to survive. So lying, cheating, stealing is just a day-to-day lifestyle once they fulfilled the coming to America dream. Their lifestyle doesn’t change and our government is ill equipped to deal with people that will do anything to survive. This is the reason to stop people who do not benefit the county, they only see America as the land to loot.


3 posted on 07/16/2025 5:13:30 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: T Ruth
Almost every day of the week, airplanes fly out of Minnesota with suitcases full of cash bound for Somalia. Somalians are perhaps the biggest grifters in the United States. They've learned how to game the system, and exploit it to the fullest: "day care centers", "food programs" "home medical care". The money doesn't stay here. Every, every, every, single person from Somalia is running a scam against the United States of America.

The people of Minnesota are the dopes who enable it. Real Minnesotans are even stupider than even the fictional characters of Prairie Home Companion would lead you to believe. Tim and Mrs."Crazy Eyes" Walz are Minnesota's "best and brightest". Head dopes and dupes.

4 posted on 07/16/2025 5:20:11 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: T Ruth

This is the same M.O. as the child care fraud of 2017 and the “Feed Our Children” fraud case that just finished up. Our government (NGOs?) has brought in Somalians and set them up in fraud schemes.

“Feds execute search warrants connected to ‘massive scheme to defraud’ a Minnesota housing program”

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4329049/posts


5 posted on 07/16/2025 5:21:27 PM PDT by CFW
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To: T Ruth

Turd World shenanigans.

Import crap, live in crap.


6 posted on 07/16/2025 5:36:42 PM PDT by dadgum (Fight to WIN or do not fight at At all)
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To: Twotone

She should be deported back to Somalia!


7 posted on 07/16/2025 5:49:38 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: T Ruth

Round then up boot them out of the US.


8 posted on 07/16/2025 6:33:07 PM PDT by BFW (loss of signal)
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To: No name given
All of them should be shipped back, the Somalis are one of Obama's gifts that keep on giving.
9 posted on 07/16/2025 6:51:32 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Everyone that voted Trump/R in '24 needs to show up in '26.)
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To: T Ruth

How much of all this fraud money ended up in Omar’s campaign fund?


10 posted on 07/16/2025 7:48:49 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable anima)
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To: T Ruth

They’re only here for the free stuff.

Period.


11 posted on 07/16/2025 7:50:19 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Major Matt Mason

Agreed.


12 posted on 07/16/2025 7:58:38 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: T Ruth

You have to give the Somalis credit for being enterprising criminals who quickly learned how to commit massive fraud and fleece the liberal social welfare programs for hundreds of millions of dollars. Of course their criminal enterprise was made possible by Minnesota’s corrupt bureaucracy and the inept leadership of Tampon Tim Walz who either simply looked the other way or got a cut of the fraud.


13 posted on 07/16/2025 8:36:09 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“Do not travel to Somalia due to crime, terrorism, civil unrest, health, kidnapping, piracy, and lack of availability of routine consular services.”

“There are frequent reports of U.S. citizens who have their passports taken by family members, leaving them unable to leave Somalia. This often occurs when U.S. citizens travel to Somalia to visit family or attend an event. Some adult U.S. citizens cannot leave the international airport because they need explicit consent from their family.”

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/somalia-travel-advisory.html


14 posted on 07/16/2025 10:46:12 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

“There are frequent reports of U.S. citizens who have their passports taken by family members, leaving them unable to leave Somalia. This often occurs when U.S. citizens travel to Somalia to visit family or attend an event.”

I LIKE IT! I wonder when incestuous Ilhan Omar will attend her next class reunion.


15 posted on 07/16/2025 11:57:44 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: T Ruth

Now deport them.


16 posted on 07/17/2025 5:07:36 AM PDT by GailA (STOP COMPLAINING, AMERICA NEEDS YOUR FULL SUPPORT NOT SOMETIMES, ALWAYS.)
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To: T Ruth

“Minnesota autism expert said he started suspecting fraud a year ago”

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/minnesota-autism-expert-said-he-started-suspecting-fraud-a-year-ago/

“1 in 5 autism centers under investigation
The unprecedented crackdown that is underway right now to root out fraud in Minnesota’s growing autism program started around the time of a federal raid of two autism centers last year in Minneapolis and St. Cloud.

However, there are growing concerns that the state may have missed warning signs.

“It makes me sad for the families,” said Dr. Eric Larsson with the Lovaas Institute Midwest. He’s dedicated his life to helping families with autism and even helped the state stand up its autism program a decade ago.

“The only reason we’re delivering services is because families worked so hard over the past 30 years to develop this program,” he said.

But now the program is in the crosshairs of state investigators. As 5 INVESTIGATES first reported, 1 in 5 autism centers in the state is now under investigation after a new crackdown launched last fall.

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There are currently more than 450 providers in the state who submit claims for Medicaid reimbursement. When the program first got off the ground in 2017, claims totaled more than $1 million.

But the program has exploded – last year, claims totaled more than $220 million.

DHS said it stepped up enforcement late last year, around the time the feds raided two autism centers suspected of billing the state more than $20 million for services never provided.

“I was never thinking somebody is going to submit fake bills,” Dr. Larsson said.

Larsson told 5 INVESTIGATES that he only started to get suspicious last year when he and his staff tried calling providers in the state directory.

He couldn’t reach at least 100 of them.

“No apparent email address, no website. No


17 posted on 07/17/2025 3:21:43 PM PDT by CFW
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