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The Brief: * Two men from Philadelphia are accused of traveling to Minnesota to take advantage of "easy money" through the state’s Medicaid programs. * The FOX 9 Investigators confirmed both men will plead guilty during plea hearings scheduled for next month. * Authorities allege the pair’s scheme involved $3.5 million in fraudulent Medicaid billing. Federal prosecutors charged Anthony Jefferson and Lester Brown, both from Philadelphia, with exploiting the state’s social service programs to line their own pockets. At the time they were charged in December, Joe Thompson, First Assistant U.S. Attorney, stated, "These defendants came here not to enjoy...

House Republicans are escalating scrutiny of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) after Oversight Committee members moved to seek immigration records connected to long-standing allegations surrounding her second marriage. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) confirmed this week that lawmakers are pursuing subpoenas related to Omar’s immigration history and that of her former spouse, amid claims that the marriage may have been entered into for immigration purposes. “Federal marriage fraud and knowingly entering a marriage to evade immigration laws is a serious felony punishable by prison time, steep fines, denaturalization, and deportation,” Mace said in a statement. “Marrying a sibling is illegal in every...

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) abandoned his ludicrous quest for a third term on Jan. 5. He has angrily refused to resign from office. Whenever he departs, whether upon his resignation some time this year or the expiration of his term early next year, we can say this much with certainty: Like former President Joe Biden, he has become a dispensable inconvenience to Democrats, in this case, Minnesota Democrats facing the 2026 elections at all levels of state government, and, like Biden, he will leave office in disgrace.To say that Walz is the worst governor in Minnesota history does not come...

Nick Sortor Reveals The Walmart Next To The Hilton Hotel He Exposed Is Staffed With Somali-Only Speaking Employees, 'They Yelled At Me' "That Hilton hotel, right next door there's a Walmart, and I tried to go in there and I was just asking for basic things and I couldn't communicate-- they couldn't tell me because they couldn't talk to me." "I don't know if that's a requirement these days that you speak Somali and only Somali." "I asked what time the place was closing and she got mad at me and started yelling." "It feels like Walmart built a store...

The second Georgia state House member accused of fabricating claims to collect federal unemployment benefits during the pandemic has announced her retirement. Karen Bennett of Stone Mountain, located roughly 20 miles from Atlanta, is facing one count of making false statements to collect $13,940 as of Monday. During an initial court appearance, Bennett opted to waive indictment and was released on $10,000 bail after pleading not guilty to the charge. In federal court, the decision to waive indictment often precedes a guilty plea. On Thursday, Bennett, a Democrat, resigned from the position she has held since 2012 representing portions of...

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Sec. Scott Bessent reveals plans to CIRCUMVENT the Tim Walz administration, he's going to train patriot Minnesota law enforcement who are fed up with the fraud to catch it in real-time 🔥 "We will NOT let the incompetence and recalcitrance of Governor Walz stop law enforcement from holding these perpetrators accountable!" "Treasury is providing training to Minnesota law enforcement on how to utilize financial data such as suspicious activity reports to better combat these fraud schemes." "Treasury will deploy all tools to bring an end to this egregious, unchecked fraud and hold perpetrators to account." This is...

🚨 BREAKING: Republicans just REMOVED a spending provision placed by Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar that would've sent $1 million to a fraudulent "clinic" in Minnesota The $1M was for a "substance abuse clinic" that happens to be housed in a RESTAURANT run by 3 people with the same residential address So Ilhan Omar just blatantly tried defraud the federal government in broad daylight and expected to get away with it UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE! SEN. JONI ERNST: "I raised the issue, and fortunately, the House has now stripped that earmark out of that spending bill. But again, this is how easy money has...

The Somali-dominated Democratic political machine in Minnesota successfully silenced hundreds of government experts who tracked the huge flow of taxpayer funds through Somali-run businesses, a top Minnesota Republican told a House hearing on Wednesday. Up to 1,000 government auditors, accountants, and program managers were silenced by Democratic threats, Minnesota House Rep. Marion Rarick told a House hearing: The most severe ones was that they would be fired with cause so they couldn’t have unemployment insurance, that they would be blacklisted from all state agencies… [including] Hennepin County, Ramsey County. As you know, those are Democrat-run. Many government experts, non-government professionals,...

Taking advantage of a generous New York state program to aid his ailing mother, Ballal Hossain signed up a dozen family members to work as her caregivers. Over six years, they were paid $348,000 to look after the elderly woman at a Manhattan apartment. Except the mom was in Bangladesh the entire time. Incredibly, Hossain got away with the fraud by having his brother pose as their sick mother for whenever inspectors showed up, before finally being caught. He was later sentenced for grand larceny, according to prosecutors. It’s just one egregious example of a welfare program — called the...

@SecScottBessent: "Under Governor Tim Walz, billions of dollars intended for families in need, housing for disabled seniors, and services for children were diverted to benefit fraudsters. I am here this week to single the @USTreasury's unwavering commitment to recovering stolen funds, prosecuting fraudulent criminals, preventing scandals like this from ever happening again."

Somalians in Minnesota committed so much fraud Tim Walz resigned

Rep Emily Randall (D-WA) said taxpayers should ignore the data alleging fraud and instead focus on investigating US citizens, especially “white men.” As independent journalists and citizen watchdogs continue raising alarms about possible “Minnesota-style” daycare fraud in Washington, the State Auditor’s Office is now finalizing an audit of a $770 million child care subsidy program run by the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), an audit that began before the recent fraud allegations went viral, that reportedly shows millions of dollars in overpayments. According to KOMO News, the audit includes payments to more than 7,400 child care providers statewide,...

Why Everyone’s Searching for “Holmes Nutrition Lawsuit”A lawsuit was filed against Holmes Nutrition (formally named The Reshaping and Nutritional Company LLC) on March 12, 2025, in U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada (Case No. 2:25-cv-00442). The case stems from independent laboratory testing that revealed Holmes Nutrition’s protein powder contained drastically less protein than advertised—only 3.4 grams per scoop instead of the labeled 22 grams. Here’s what’s making this story explode across social media: A concerned consumer spent their own money to send three flavors of Holmes Nutrition protein powder to Certified Laboratories. The results were shocking. What was...

As RedState reported, there was a leftist blockade attempt earlier in a Minnesota neighborhood that turned violent after an anti-ICE agitator appeared to hit an agent conducting immigration enforcement operations with her SUV, resulting in shots being fired that left the woman dead. The woman has been identified as 37-year-old Renee Good. In the aftermath of the incident, Democrats in the state went nuts in fanning the flames, with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz both blaming ICE for what happened without bothering to wait for (nor actually caring about) the actual facts. Walz even announced he'll call...

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 🚨 BREAKING: BOMBSHELL Minnesota auditor report just dropped and it confirms Tim Walz's Department of Human Services FABRICATED RECORDS and did not verify grant recipients, tried COVERING THEIR TRACKS, enabling massive fraud It just got 10,000X worse. WALZ MUST RESIGN. "Perhaps the most EXPLOSIVE revelation is that managers within DHS tried to cover their tracks by backdating and creating NEW DOCUMENTS." 🤯 "Sent millions of dollars out the door in grants without making proper checks into who was receiving them. And that is not even the most jaw-dropping finding!" "One outrageous example, the auditors found a grantee...

Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) suggested the federal prosecutor behind the Somali fraud convictions in the state should be fired, accusing him of “defamation” for providing an estimate of the total amount defrauded from Medicaid programs. “You saw a U.S. attorney stand up, which … would have been let go by any other administration, speculating about things with no factual information,” Walz said Tuesday. “That’s defamation … and that’s coming from the attorney. We are under assault like no other time in our state’s history because of a petty, vile administration that doesn’t care about the well-being of Minnesotans.” Walz...

Elon Musk, the visionary former head of DOGE, amplified a brave citizen journalist’s exposé on rampant fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community under Tim Walz’s lax oversight. Young conservative Nick Shirley documented empty daycares and shell companies siphoning billions in taxpayer funds for housing, food, and vehicles. For context, most estimates place the total amount of fraud at $80-100 billion statewide, tied to scandals like Feeding Our Future. Building on this point, Musk declared that fraud in California, New York, and Illinois is far worse and estimated nationwide waste at ~10% of the federal budget. Starting the interaction, one of the...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) has an unhinged meltdown during a House hearing on Minnesota fraud. Credit: C-SPAN 3 Screenshot. ============================================================= Far-Left Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) became the first Democrat to have a colossal meltdown in the House during a hearing this year after her colleagues and witnesses refused to put up with her garbage about President Trump and J6. As The Gateway Pundit reported, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday held its first hearing on the widespread fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs. At least $9 BILLION has been stolen from Minnesota taxpayers under the watch...

The Trump administration paused $10 billion of child care funds to California amid widespread fraud claims — and demanded Gov. Gavin Newsom send the feds a list of vendors, contractors and individuals getting tax money. The Department of Health and Human Services will put the brakes on taxpayer funding to the Golden State’s Child Care Development Fund (CCDF), the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) program, the Administration for Children and Families said in a series of letters to Newsom dated Tuesday. The CCDF and SSBG letters demanded California turn over “verified...

Tim Walz’s DHS fabricated records, had zero internal controls, and employees ignored oversight on more than $400 MILLION in grants. The fraud and corruption continues.