FWIW - How Fraud Swamped Minnesota's Social Services System on Tim Walz's Watch (NYT)

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/fraud-minnesota-somali.html

https://archive.ph/QfSVr

How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
Prosecutors say members of the Somali diaspora, a group with growing political power, were largely responsible. President Trump has drawn national attention to the scandal amid his crackdown on immigration.
By Ernesto Londoño
Nov. 29, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET

The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness.

Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people with felonies, accusing them of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government program meant to keep children fed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

At first, many in the state saw the case as a one-off abuse during a health emergency. But as new schemes targeting the state’s generous safety net programs came to light, state and federal officials began to grapple with a jarring reality.

Over the last five years, law enforcement officials say, fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars’ worth of social services that were never provided.

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Over a billion in taxpayers’ money stolen.

This is not something Democrats can ignore