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  • INVESTIGATION: MPS finance chief who signed contracts with questionable transportation companies placed on leave [MN]

    01/11/2026 3:59:51 PM PST · by CFW · 6 replies
    Alpha News ^ | 1/11/26 | enna Gloeb and Liz Collin
    Ibrahima Diop, the finance boss at Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), has been placed on administrative leave, Alpha News has learned. Alpha News has reported extensively on Diop and questionable contracts with Frontier Transportation Services, hired by MPS to transport Homeless and Highly Mobile (HHM) students in passenger vans. Additionally, another transportation company under contract with the district was filmed dropping off children at the now-closed Quality “Learing” Center — a moment many observers believe was staged to make the site appear active. [snip] An article from transportation consultant Rob Carpenter first raised questions about MEISA, noting its apparent connections to...
  • Rep. Ilhan Omar says federal probe into Minnesota's welfare fraud is "creating confusion and chaos"

    01/11/2026 2:50:10 PM PST · by xxqqzz · 29 replies
    CBS ^ | January 11, 2026 | graham kates
    Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar denounced a surge of federal agents to Minneapolis targeting Somalis and other immigrants after a fraud scheme in the state, saying the Trump administration has sown "confusion and chaos." "It's not necessary in a moment when we are trying to deal with a serious problem that needs serious people to be able to address it," Omar said Sunday on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." The Minneapolis area now has one of the largest concentrations of Department of Homeland Security agents in any American city in recent years. There are more than 2,400 federal agents, more...
  • MASSIVE NEWS: It's been CONFIRMED that everybody on SNAP will now be FORCED to reapply to the program after massive fraud was revealed.

    01/11/2026 2:10:27 PM PST · by SmokingJoe · 35 replies
    X ^ | 01/11/2026 | Save America
    🚨MASSIVE NEWS: It's been CONFIRMED that everybody on SNAP will now be FORCED to reapply to the program after massive fraud was revealed. 186,000 THOUSAND dead people. Hundreds of thousands of double-dippers. This shouldn't be controversial. If you need it and are a citizen, simply apply and you will get it. Do you support this? YES or NO? IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!
  • Minnesota Is Just the Beginning: A Nationwide Web of Welfare Fraud Is Unraveling

    01/11/2026 10:54:20 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 23 replies
    AMAC Newsline ^ | 9 Jan, 2026 | Adam Gibbs
    With evidence emerging of more than $9 billion worth of taxpayer fraud in Minnesota, the media are finally starting to cover the problem of criminals stealing from the taxpayer. But fraud is by no means limited to Minnesota—it is a nationwide problem that leaders at both the federal and state levels need to tackle before it gets even worse. Even the New York Times was forced to take notice, publishing an explosive article showing evidence of more than $1 billion of taxpayer money stolen by about 80 different Somali immigrants to Minnesota. Just days after the Minnesota story broke, a...
  • Illinois leaders reject claims of fraud, say Trump's childcare funding freeze is politically motivated

    01/10/2026 3:10:14 AM PST · by DFG · 33 replies
    CBS News ^ | 01/09/2026 | Megan De Mar
    Illinois leaders and lawmakers spoke out on Friday about the Trump administration's move to withhold billions of dollars in federal childcare funds for Illinois and four other states run by Democrats. The move will freeze nearly $2.4 billion for the Child Care Development Fund, and billions more in funding for other social service programs in Illinois, Minnesota, New York, California, and Colorado. However, on Friday, a federal judge in New York issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from freezing those funds for now. The order will last for 14 days, while the court considers a request for...
  • Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent: Reward Money for Whistleblowers in Minnesota’s Growing Fraud Scandal

    01/10/2026 10:18:33 AM PST · by DFG · 21 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/10/2026 | Lowell Cauffiel
    Cash payments will be waiting for whistleblowers who provide information related to Minnesota’s unfolding fraud scandal, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday. The announcement of reward money comes as the Trump administration is pursuing wide-scale fraud investigations in Minnesota due to persistent allegations involving money-laundering schemes, pirating of federal human services funds, and other misuse of taxpayer money. “We know that these rats will turn on each other,” Bessent told Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle on Friday. “We are going to offer whistleblower payments to anyone who wants to tell us the who, what, when, where, and how this...
  • Secretary Rollins — USDA Stops Minnesota’s ‘Handouts to Thieves’ over Fraud Allegations: ‘Enough Is Enough!’

    01/10/2026 12:15:19 PM PST · by Morgana · 4 replies
    Breitbart ^ | January 10, 2026 | Amy Furr
    U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins warned Minnesota’s Democrat leaders on Friday their “handouts to thieves” are at an end, her announcement coming amid news about rampant fraud in the state. In a social media post, Rollins said President Donald Trump’s administration uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota and Minneapolis which resulted in billions of dollars being “siphoned off by fraudsters.” She wrote: Enough is enough! The Trump administration has uncovered MASSIVE fraud in Minnesota and Minneapolis—billions siphoned off by fraudsters. And those in charge have ZERO plan to fix it. Today, @USDA is SUSPENDING FEDERAL FINANCIAL AWARDS to Minnesota and...
  • Ending the Charade of Wasteful International Organizations (U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio)

    01/10/2026 2:57:40 PM PST · by bitt · 9 replies
    https://statedept.substack.com ^ | Jan 10, 2026 | U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
    The United States has played a central role in shaping the international order. From the Monroe Doctrine which allowed nations in our region to flourish free from interference outside of our hemisphere, to our pivotal role in the establishment of the United Nations, to serving as the primary security guarantor under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and as the world’s largest humanitarian donor, America’s leadership has been unquestionable. Leadership requires difficult choices, and the ability to recognize when the institutions created to promote peace, prosperity and liberty have become obstacles to those goals. What we term the “international system” is...
  • Former Mobster Breaks Down Minnesota Somali Scam Former Mobster Breaks Down Minnesota Somali Scam Former Mobster Breaks Down Minnesota Somali Scam

    01/10/2026 3:57:40 PM PST · by fhayek · 14 replies
    Youtube ^ | 1/7/2026 | Michael Franzese
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  • Minnesota Democrats Blocked Auditors from Tackling 'Avalanche' of Somali Fraud, Blacklisted Whistleblowers

    01/10/2026 4:09:06 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 22 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 7 Jan 2026 | Neil Munro
    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,...
  • Tim Walz Exposed For Faking Financial Records In State Audit

    01/10/2026 8:47:43 PM PST · by SmokingJoe · 36 replies
    YouTube ^ | 01/10/2026 | Nellie Miranda
    A Minnesota state audit reveals that government employees fabricated and backdated documents to cover up massive mismanagement of taxpayer funds. This is a systemic failure inside the Department of Human Services that raises serious questions about fraud, accountability, and whether anyone will actually be held responsible.
  • President Trump is taking decisive against the egregious fraud being committed against American taxpayers, and @USTreasury is following the money.

    01/10/2026 7:44:26 PM PST · by SmokingJoe · 22 replies
    X ^ | 01/10/2026 | Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
    President Trump is taking decisive against the egregious fraud being committed against American taxpayers, and @USTreasury is following the money. We took on the mafia. We took on the cartels. Now, we are cracking down on Somali fraud networks and money being wired out of our country. We are opening investigations and putting an end to illicit activities in order to defend taxpayers and put America First.
  • Billions in healthcare fraud discovered in California, Minnesota ‘pales in comparison’: Dr Oz

    01/09/2026 1:20:28 PM PST · by DFG · 20 replies
    NY Post ^ | 01/09/2026 | Benjamin Brown
    Billions of dollars in alleged fraudulent healthcare spending is being investigated in California, specifically probing foreign nationals operating illegal hospice facilities — officials announced Friday in a bombshell press conference. “We have witnessed a sevenfold increase in hospice in LA County, sevenfold. That doesn’t happen naturally,” Dr Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services told The Post during at the press conference. “There is not seven times more deaths in LA County than there were five years ago. These are fraudsters, and these do tend to be foreign influences, either Russian and Armenian gangs, mafia,...
  • Somali Politician ROBS Mass Shooting Victim Fund

    01/10/2026 8:53:30 AM PST · by SmokingJoe · 8 replies
    YouTube ^ | 01/09/2026 | Actual Justice
    In this video I discuss the election of an alleged Somali criminal & fraudster Iman Osman to the Lewiston City Council despite some pretty obvious red flags This Somali cheerfully stole money supposed to be for the victims of the mass shooting in Maine,
  • Minnesota: Why have Tim Walz and Jacob Frey not been arrested?

    01/10/2026 8:52:24 AM PST · by Kazan · 36 replies
    American Thinker ^ | January 10, 2026 | Patricia McCarthy
    Recent (and not-so-recent) revelations about the massive fraudulent scams that have cost Minnesota at least $9 billion have exploded across the country and have certainly put the buffoonish Gov. Tim Walz and harebrained Minneapolis mayor and pretend-Somali, Jacob Frey, on the defensive. # Both Walz and Frey have obviously been complicit in these multi-billion-dollar schemes to defraud American taxpayers and have most likely benefited financially. # Now we know for sure, as if what we learned from DOGE was not shocking enough, that the American taxpayer has been robbed blind for decades for “causes” that have been fabricated. This has...
  • 'Fraud tourists' to plead guilty to Minnesota Medicaid scheme

    01/09/2026 7:21:31 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 7 replies
    FOX News Minneapolis ^ | January 9, 2026 | By Paul Blume
    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 Move to Subpoena Ilhan Omar’s Immigration Records Amid Marriage Fraud Allegations

    01/09/2026 8:14:26 AM PST · by SharpRightTurn · 45 replies
    BIG LEAGUE POLITICS ^ | JAN 09, 2026 | N/A
    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...
  • Exit Tim Walz, stage Biden: Another Democrat has clung to power past his expiration date

    01/09/2026 4:44:06 PM PST · by Vigilanteman · 11 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 9 January 2025 | Scott W. Johnson
    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

    01/09/2026 3:37:01 PM PST · by devane617 · 40 replies
    X,com ^ | 01/09/2026
    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...
  • Georgia lawmaker accused of ripping off taxpayers with pandemic unemployment fraud announces retirement (Karen Bennett)

    01/09/2026 1:35:14 PM PST · by Libloather · 13 replies
    Fox News ^ | 1/09/26 | Julia Bonavita
    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...