Political pressure from Somali community hampered Minnesota fraud probes, whistleblower says

JusttheNews ^ | 4/8/26 | Steven Richards

[CFW]

A key whistle-blower, and one of the first to draw attention to what he believed was widespread fraud in the Minnesota welfare system, says that state officials hampered probes into the allegations over concerns about pressure from the state’s Somali immigrant community.

That community has been at the center of recent welfare fraud accusations, including the Feeding Our Future fraud case, in which prosecutors say more than 70 defendants — most of them part of Minneapolis’ Somali community — were charged in connection to a $250 million pandemic-era fraud on a state-funded meals program for children.

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But, concerns about Minneapolis daycare centers go back at least a decade, according to the whistle-blower, Scott Dexter, who worked as an investigator at the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) from 2013 to 2019. He told Just the News that his team uncovered evidence of fraud in the state’s taxpayer-funded daycare system almost immediately after he started his work.

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Swanson said the investigators “routinely uncovered large scale overbilling” and estimated the fraud rate in the program was likely as high as 50% of the total disbursements. According to the official, his team found that a large percentage of the highest paid daycare centers in the state raised significant fraud concerns for investigators – as many as 72 of the top 100 recipients of state money bore concerning markers.

Investigators found that it appeared many daycare centers were opened entirely for the purpose of defrauding CCAP, noting one Office of Inspector General study from 2017 found there “was an excess of 320 child care centers” receiving money from the program in Hennepin County — home to Minneapolis — alone.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: corruption; dflkickbacks; dflracketeering; fraud; impeachellison; impeachflansouthside; impeachwalz; minnesota; rico; somalians

[CFW]

It's a pretty long article so read the entire piece.

Given that one of the "Feeding Our Future" defendants was caught attempting to bribe a juror with a bag of cash, I'm sure a lot of bribery, extortion, kick-backs, and strong-arming was involved in the corruption. I would bet a lot of money could be traced directly to several politicians, including Walz. The problem is that any investigation deliberately avoids looking for the evidence of that part of the corruption.

[OttawaFreeper]

Because they really liked their learing centers.

[MileHi]

Wasn’t Walz bragging about their taxpayer funded daycare and early learning programs during the 2024 campaign?

[KarlInOhio]

Political pressure is measured in units of “Kickback dollars per square inch”.

[Liz]

Patriots, Call Congress
US Capitol switchboard
(202) 224-3121.

Call the White House
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
TTY/TTD Comments: 202-456-6213

Send a letter to the White House
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Washington, DC 20500

Message: Tax-paid state officials obstructed probes into rampant tax fraud, due to pressure from Minn’s thieving Somali residents. Thieving Somalis $250M Feeding Our Future fraud AND welfare fraud nabbed 70 defendants charged in connection w/ tax-funded programs. As well, concerns about Somali thieves running phony daycare centers go back more than a decade. One investigator saw evidence of fraud in tax-funded daycares back in 2013. why aren’t these people in jail?

[Vaduz]

Agree greed is proving to be the strongest drug out there no limit of takers.

Weak people weak country

[AZJeep]

There is not that many Somalis in Minnesota.
But they stick together and are well organized!

[z3n]

You said the right word. Organized.
As in organized crime.
But hay, since they don’t speak with italian accents and carry tommy guns, we can just look the other way.

[MayflowerMadam]

More like FINANCIAL pressure, then political.

The money pocketed by MN pols ... OMG!

[bobbo666]

“Somalie community”??? Gimme a F@#$in break! It was Mn politicos, from start to finish.

[SunkenCiv]

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