Report links Minnesota welfare fraud sent funds to al-Shabaab through hawalas
Minnesota's welfare fraud involves schemes stealing billions, with $61 million in Housing Stabilization Services payouts in early 2025 linked to remittances funding Al-Shabaab, prosecutors say.
- Under Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, billions have been stolen from taxpayer welfare programs, with funds allegedly sent to the terrorist group Al-Shabaab through fraudulent schemes in the Somali community.
- Federal prosecutors reported a major fraud scheme involving Feeding Our Future, which defrauded a federal nutrition program for $200 million by falsifying invoices and meal counts.
- Reports indicate that much of the money misappropriated eventually funds Al-Shabaab, with one source stating, 'The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.'
- The Department of Justice is investigating alleged fraud involving autism programs and feeding schemes, identifying a crisis in the state's welfare system, stated Thompson.
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Minnesota Taxpayers Fund Al-Shabaab
Investigative journalists Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo published a bombshell report in City Journal. It describes how massive welfare fraud in Democrat-run Minnesota was mostly laundered through networks in the state’s Somali community. Then it was sent back to Somalia. Some of those funds ultimately ended up in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab. […] The post Minnesota Taxpayers Fund Al-Shabaab appeared first on www.independentsent…
MN Terror Connections: The Somali Fraud ⋆ Conservative Firing Line
The following article, MN Terror Connections: The Somali Fraud, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. The headline read, “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota Taxpayer.” In a report by Journalist Christopher Rufo, Ryan Thorpe for the City Journal, it was revealed that Minnesota’s Somali population is allegedly stealing welfare funds and sending them back home to give a cut to the waiting wallets of Al-Shabaab terrorists. …
Minnesota Housing Stabilization Service shutdown leaves many without future housing
The shutdown of the Housing Stabilization Service last month due to fraud allegations leaves many disabled people without housing resources. The Department of Human Services shut down HSS on Oct. 31 after allegations of fraud by some of its providers. The DHS said the program had to shut down because the fraud allegations were credible and widespread. “The Minnesota Legislature and DHS each took strong actions this year to improve oversight of …
REPORT: Somali Terror Group 'Took A Cut' From US Taxpayers In Minneapolis Fraud Scheme
Millions of dollars in taxpayer funds stolen as part of massive welfare fraud schemes in Minnesota — the majority of which involve the state’s sizable Somali population — may have been funneled to the Al-Qaeda affiliated Somali terrorist organization al-Shabab, according to a new report. The radical jihadist group, which has carried out several deadly attacks in Somalia and against western interests in the region over the past two decades, has l…
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