Some buy-partisanship?
Posted on 12/06/2025 10:49:26 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The numbers out of Minnesota are staggering: Three separate plots to bilk welfare programs. Fifty-nine federal convictions. More than $1 billion stolen from taxpayers. Of 86 people charged so far, all but eight are of Somali descent.
The scandal has seized headlines and put Gov. Tim Walz, seeking a third term, on the defensive. It’s huge, brazen and entangled with the seamy politics of migration and assimilation. President Trump has weighed in with characteristic subtlety: “We don’t want them in our country,” he said of Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar and “her friends” during Tuesday’s cabinet meeting. “Let them go back to where they came from and fix it.”
The massive fraud shows there is plenty to fix in America. What’s unfolding in Minnesota is sensational but not unusual. Ripping off the taxpayer has become a national pastime. The needy deserve support, but when entitlements become ends in themselves, they invite criminality and dependence.
The nobler the cause, the nastier the graft. Since 2020, when Washington turned on the spigots to counter effects of the pandemic, government-benefits fraud cases have increased 242%. According to the Government Accountability Office, from 2020 to 2023 the amount of fraud in unemployment-insurance programs was between $100 billion and $135 billion. In June, the Justice Department announced charges against 324 defendants in schemes involving $14.6 billion in healthcare fraud. Last month a Miami grand jury indicted Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and others on charges of stealing $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency relief and laundering the money into her campaign. The Democratic congresswoman pleaded not guilty.
Minnesota fits the pattern. In 2022 federal investigators noticed unusual activity in a program to serve meals to children during the pandemic. Empire Cuisine & Market, a small halal grocery in Shakopee, Minn., claimed to be feeding thousands of children...
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Purify them all in the waters of Lake Minnetonka.
It must be really bad for the MSM to be attacking.
“Wall Street Journal” is ‘official media’ so this must be an important narrative for the most powerful ruling forces.
That’s not Lake Minnetonka.
They let in Somalis
D E M O C R A T S.
All seems to be going according to the democRAAT plan.
“President Trump has weighed in with characteristic subtlety: “We don’t want them in our country,”
…to the point. No past president has told it like it is like Trump. Why dance around with “gosh golly” BS?
>>>How Minnesota Became the Land of 10,000 Frauds
Welcome to Koranic teachings.
I hear the $$ pilfered is going to go much higher than a billion, even as much as 7 or 8 billion dollars vanished under Tampon Timmy Waltz nose. It’s an example of thieves finding a nice racket and letting their own greed take over.
Tim Waltz and that faggot mayor got their share I’m sure.
Ripping off the taxpayer has become a national pastime. The needy deserve support, but when entitlements become ends in themselves, they invite criminality and dependence. The nobler the cause, the nastier the graft. Since 2020, when Washington turned on the spigots to counter effects of the pandemic, government-benefits fraud cases have increased 242%.
<><>According to the GAO, fraud is monumental in UI
<><>DOJ announced 324 defendants were involved $14.6 billion healthcare fraud.
<><>Fla Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and others charged of stealing $5M in FEMA relief
<><>and laundering the FEMA tax dollars into her campaign coffers.
<><>In 2022 feds noticed unusual activity in a Minn program to serve meals to children wrt Covid.
<><>Empire Cuisine & Market, a small halal Muslim grocery claimed to be feeding 1000’s.
I didn’t think they had the brain for something this vast and complex.
>>>small halal Muslim grocery
LOL, doesn’t an Imam need to make it Halal? What a racket!
doesn’t an Imam need to make it Halal? What a racket!
good catch
The heat is on Tim Walz now proof of his scamming is out he may be doing time soon.
Taxpayers in his state may not wait that long for justice?.
Bush too. It is no wonder why the Obamas love him.
Best I've read, no-ish. Certification is a matter of "how" not "who." So strange that some Muzzies allow kosher killed animals to be eaten, because it seems a matter of cutting the jugular and bleeding an animal to death. For this, slaughtering can be a family affair....
Personally, I focus more on the Muzzy families "slaughtering" family members for apostasy.
These values can be seen on display in countries like Sweden where high schools are full of balding, paunchy 35-year-old war veterans from Afghanistan who claim to be 14 years old for the increase in benefits that minors receive. And the Swedes are simply too polite to question these absurd claims.
And now we see it on display amongst their cousins in Minnesota as their high trust, generous culture clashes with Third World savages.
"You have 17 kids, each with profound autism?" And they're too polite to question this so they just write them big, fat checks.
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