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Minnesotans woke up to a scandal that should outrage every taxpayer: investigators say a sprawling fraud scheme tied to members of the Somali community funneled roughly $1.3 billion in benefits and remittances out of state and overseas. This isn’t garden-variety fraud — it’s a multi-program, multi-year ripoff that shows how badly our safety-net systems can be abused when oversight is weak and political leaders look the other way.
Even more disturbing are reports that a portion of those dollars were routed through informal hawala networks and may have ended up enriching extremist elements overseas, including the al-Shabaab terror group. Whether fully proven in court or still being traced, the possibility that Minnesota taxpayer money is indirectly funding terrorism should end all excuses and force a full, unforgiving federal probe.
This scandal also exposes a predictable political pattern: Democratic officials who run these programs were allegedly warned about vulnerabilities and ignored them, and now Republican investigators are calling for accountability up the chain to Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison. If whistleblowers are telling the truth, there must be consequences — no more platitudes or press releases trying to paper over incompetence and political cowardice.
Federal prosecutors have already been active, with indictments and guilty pleas in schemes tied to Feeding Our Future, Housing Stabilization Services, and questionable billing practices in Medicaid autism programs. This is not small-time shoplifting; it is organized, professional stealing from the American people that corrupted service providers and preyed on vulnerable citizens for profit.
The Treasury and other federal agencies are now reportedly investigating the tax and money-transfer trails — exactly the kind of follow-through we demanded when this administration talks tough about homeland security. We need actual enforcement, not hollow words, and we need to secure our borders and vet who gets access to taxpayer-funded benefits to prevent repeats of this grotesque abuse.
Mainstream outlets will rush to declare criticism “racist” and to protect convenient narratives, but patriotically defending our country and our taxpayers is not racism — it is stewardship. Americans should demand audits, prosecutions, and the immediate reform or termination of programs that have proven to be cash cows for criminals, and they should insist elected officials who facilitated or ignored this rot be held to account.
This is a moment for hard truth and decisive action: clean house, prosecute the guilty, reclaim stolen dollars, and restore integrity to the institutions meant to help the needy — not feed criminal enterprises. Hardworking Americans will not tolerate their money being laundried overseas while politicians dodge responsibility, and they should channel that fury into votes and oversight until justice is done.
