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The Trump administration is cutting off more than $112 million in federal funding to Minnesota over “unallowable claims,” the most recent escalation in the White House’s fight over Medicaid fraud in the state. The administration sought to block hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funding to blue states this year, including Minnesota and California over allegations of fraud. It has made Minnesota a focal point in President Trump’s fraud crackdown. In a letter to Minnesota Department of Human Services temporary commissioner John Connolly, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services cited dozens of instances where Minnesota allegedly failed to...

CARVER, Minn. (FOX 9) - A long-time Minnesota lobbyist is pleading guilty to charges after allegations he threatened to shoot lawmakers at the Minnesota Capitol, detailed how much ammo he had and intended to "blow somebody’s face off."

“For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.” From James O’ Keefe, independent journalist, posting on Twitter (X), O’Keefe writes, JUST RECEIVED IN MAIL: Complaint/Summons to appear in Court in Minneapolis, Nov 16th. Once again I’m calling on all journalists to take a stance for the 1st amendment. If they can put me in jail for asking questions, they will do it to you. https://t.co/VmWFE70ElN— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) We’ve come to the point in the proceedings when it is time to hang together or we will surely hang separately. Soft-on-crime Hennepin County prosecutor Mary Moriaty finally found a crime...

an Obama-era investigation found some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man who may have been her brother The F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in summer 2016, during the Obama administration, and found some evidence that it was fraudulent that case stalled chiefly because prosecutors concluded that the potential crime, a felony, fell outside a five-year statute of limitations Federal agents in Minnesota opened an investigation... They found evidence suggesting that Mr. Elmi and Ms. Omar were siblings Mr. Elmi had obtained a provisional two-year green card based on the...

Even in Alaska, cold as it gets, if you leave a fish out long enough, it starts to get rank. The same is true for leftists. Give them enough time and enough space, and they will eventually funk up the place, and it will be no secret where the stink is coming from. .... The picture is not pretty. ... Where there’s smoke, there’s fire ... this scandal is growing. ... the scandal starts to strike at the core of the national leftist election infrastructure. The Elias Law Group is not just a law firm that serves leftist clients. In...

Democrat Peggy Flanagan is leading in the Minnesota Senate race against GOP competitor Michele Tafoya, according to a new poll. In The New York Times/Siena University poll, 54 percent of respondents said they were more likely to cast their ballot for Flanagan if Election Day were that day, while 40 percent said the same for Tafoya. Less than half a percent chose another candidate, and 5 percent were unsure of their choice or gave no answer. The double-digit gap between Flanagan and Tafoya is notable, as the Minnesota lieutenant governor was recently holding a slim lead over the former NFL...

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has filed charges against conservative influencers and independent journalists Cam Higby and James O'Keefe over a video they made on vote vouching. Vote vouching charges What we know: Cam Higby and James O'Keefe are charged with identity theft and unlawful voting under Minnesota's Election Day Act. The backstory: The charges relate to a video Higby made during Minnesota's primary intended to expose flaws in the state's vouching provision. The charges detail Higby and O'Keefe visiting four precincts in Hennepin County and allegedly impersonating four different voters. For the first person, identified in the charges as...

Donald Trump’s criminal investigation into Representative Ilhan Omar—which is aimed at stripping her citizenship—is far more than just another attack on a vocal critic. As many have noted, this denaturalization push is an assault on the constitutional order itself. It amounts to a declaration of dictatorial or czar-like power, in which the sovereign can declare any foe an “enemy of the people” at will and delegitimize even the opposition’s duly elected representatives by fiat. All of which raises a question: Can Democrats do anything about this? Well, yes, they actually can. enior House Democrats tell me they’re discussing a dramatic...

The Minnesota Court of Appeals reversed Hennepin County Judge Sarah West's decision to throw out a jury's guilty verdicts against Abdifatah Abdulkadir Yusuf, whose health care company fraudulently billed Medicaid for more than $7.2 million. In a ruling filed Monday, a three-judge appellate panel ordered the case returned to Hennepin County for reinstatement of all six guilty verdicts for aiding and abetting theft by swindle. The appeals court rejected West's conclusion that Yusuf's brother, Mohamed, might have orchestrated the fraud without Yusuf knowing or helping. She cited Minnesota's circumstantial evidence standard as needing to rule out such a scenario for...

Who edits this stuff? A rant from the New York Times editorial board compares the Trump administration to some of history’s worst dictatorships:The revocation of a political opponent’s citizenship has long been a tool of authoritarian repression.The Soviet Union stripped Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the dissident author, of his citizenship in 1974 and deported him to West Germany. Czechoslovakia revoked the citizenship of Milan Kundera, another celebrated author, in 1979. East Germany and Romania, under Communist rule, took similar steps against critics, as did Chile under Augusto Pinochet, Greece under its military dictatorship, Germany under Hitler and Italy under Mussolini. More recently,...

Wednesday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said President Donald Trump is directing a “fictitious” investigation against her. Omar said, “You could at least have the appearance of not having this be fictitious, not having this be directed by the president and everybody in his administration who hates me. But they’ve chosen to blatantly have every character that has been involved be someone who has expressed explicitly that they don’t want me to be in the United States, and they don’t want me to be in Congress. I mean, from Mullin to JD Vance to the president...

A report spotlighted two charities and Minnesota’s Somali refugee history. It says Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services received at least $62 million in government funding tied to resettling about 29,000 Somali refugees since 1993.The figure raises questions about public spending and humanitarian work. It also invites a closer look at how Minnesota became home to one of the country’s largest Somali communities.The organizations named are Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, a faith-based social-service provider. Both operated within a wider network helping newly arrived refugees find housing and connect with essential services.The reported $62 million is a...

Below, please find the list of links to the 25 investigative articles written by Scott Johnson, Preya Samsundar, and myself from 2016 to 2020. In the July 18, 2019 article linked below, I asserted: “[T]he three years of verified evidence published by Scott Johnson, Preya Samsundar, and myself (…) appear to give probable cause to investigate Omar for eight instances of perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, up to eight years of state and federal tax fraud, two years of federal student loan fraud, and even bigamy. To be clear: The facts describe perhaps the most extensive spree of illegal misconduct...

On October 20th, Trump invited Nick Shirley to the White House to be present when he announced the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program. ...

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Modern Times Café once served free food to the community as federal immigration agents flooded Minneapolis. Now, the restaurant is closing by the end of the year. "For the last 6 years, I’ve been trying to prove that Modern Times can continue to exist. I’ve exhausted every option without compromising the core fundamentals that make Modern Times what it is. Because of this, we have made the choice to close at the end of the year. This has been an incredibly difficult decision and one that did not come lightly. I announce this decision now, with...

Things are getting increasingly wild in the ongoing, multifaceted investigation into Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05). When you bring DNA evidence into the fray, you'd be right to wonder if something beyond the initial reports is happening behind the scenes. Federal agents, according to multiple sources who spoke with NewsNation, searched discarded trash in hopes of obtaining DNA from Omar and her family before raiding her Washington, D.C. home this week. The sources state that any potential DNA evidence obtained "is critical to the investigation" into the Squad member. It's unclear how such evidence would factor into the case, but...

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says federal investigators have a “STRONG CASE” against Rep. Ilhan Omar as agents execute MULTIPLE search warrants in ongoing investigation. According to CBS News: -Federal authorities carried out several search warrants as part of the expanding investigation. -Mullin says organized immigration fraud could trigger federal racketeering charges under RICO. -DHS and the Justice Department are coordinating efforts as the investigation moves forward. It's only getting worse for Ilhan Omar.

Senior Minnesota state officials allegedly hired outside investigators to silence whistleblowers in an attempt to cover up widespread state social services fraud, a House committee report released Monday found. A 200-page staff report by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform found that Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s state administration intimidated and retaliated against state employees who raised concerns about fraud, soliciting private investigators to reveal employees’ personal details. The report, titled “The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Tim Walz and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota’s Fraud Explosion,” exposed that senior state officials, as high as allegedly Gov. Walz, were...

LEAKED VIDEO: Candidate for DNC Chairman @keithellison: The Jews were behind 9/11.

Two church non-profits have taken in at least $62 M to build the Somali community in Minnesota — leading to the rise of Ilhan Omar and the fraud scandals that have gripped that state. Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services were at the forefront of reshaping MN thanks to generous government contracts stemming back generations. “This is a very big pile of government money and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it,” Parker Thayer, an immigration expert at the Capital Research Center...total money pouring into MN resettlement programs is “in the hundreds...