Christopher Rufo has a story that, by now, should not be explosive. In any sane universe, it would have been exposed years ago, because all the facts have been sitting in public view for years, and the US Attorney's office has been systematically prosecuting figures associated with the crimes for the past few.
Bill Glahn, who has been working away on the story to little fanfare, has been diligently investigating and exposing the rot and the Somali crime gangs who have been enriching themselves, their families, and terrorist organizations back in Somalia. Somalis have been taking over the DFL, which is our idiosyncratically named Democratic Party, and it has become such a key constituency for Democrats that even white politicians are campaigning in Somali.
Incredible story.
— Zarathustra (@zarathustra5150) November 19, 2025
Somalians are defrauding Minnesota taxpayers to such an extent that “the largest funder of Al Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer”.
Al Shabaab is the largest Islamist terrorist group in Somalia. https://t.co/i1UjEH7X1o pic.twitter.com/WYL7pyCIRL
But this is not a sane universe. Our media exists, mainly, to back whatever the Democrats want backed, so billions of dollars have flowed from state coffers into Somali gangs in a quid pro quo that everybody in the Democratic Party knows about and accepts.
The result is that the taxpayers of Minnesota are the largest funders of an ongoing civil war in Somalia. We literally fund terrorists, and our government and Democrat Party establishment knows it and have decided it works for them just fine.
Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.
In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab. As one confidential source put it: “The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.”
I have a quibble with Rufo: bureaucrats are not "asleep at the switch." Their political masters have often bullied them into keeping the money flowing despite the obvious fraud.
If you were to design a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would probably look a lot like Minnesota’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program. The HSS program, the first of its kind in the country, was launched with a noble goal: to help seniors, addicts, the disabled, and the mentally ill secure housing. It was designed with “low barriers to entry” and “minimal requirements for reimbursement.” Nonetheless, before the program went live in 2020, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at $2.6 million.
Costs quickly spiraled out of control. In 2021, the program paid out more than $21 million in claims. In the following years, annual costs shot up to $42 million, then $74 million, then $104 million. During the first six months of 2025, payouts totaled $61 million.
On August 1, Minnesota’s Department of Human Services moved to scrap the HSS program, noting that payment to 77 housing-stabilization providers had been terminated this year due to “credible allegations of fraud.” Joe Thompson, then the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, went even further, stating that the “vast majority” of the HSS program was fraudulent.
On September 18, Thompson announced criminal indictments for HSS fraud against Moktar Hassan Aden, Mustafa Dayib Ali, Khalid Ahmed Dayib, Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, Christopher Adesoji Falade, Emmanuel Oluwademilade Falade, Asad Ahmed Adow, and Anwar Ahmed Adow—six of whom, according a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesperson, are members of Minnesota’s Somali community. Thompson made clear that this is just the first round of charges for HSS fraud that his office will be prosecuting.
The Housing Stabilization Services fraud is hardly the first or most significant cause of corruption. In fact, it is small beer compared to the Feeding Our Future fraud, which is the largest case (so far) of COVID-era fraud, the Daycare fraud scandal, which barely got attention, or the autism services frauds.
READ: https://t.co/AGLJMv5j0A
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) April 9, 2025
🚨A SECOND leaked audio links Keith Ellison to Feeding Our Future...listen to another American Experiment exclusive recording here: https://t.co/veVK3hX0Ev
— American Experiment (@MNThinkTank) April 14, 2025
Fraud is everywhere, including in elections. It is the bedrock of power for the Somalis who now run the Democratic Party in Minneapolis, where Ilhan Omar is one of the key power players as the Congresswoman from the 5th District. Somalis are so powerful that our politics are now determined by which rival clan can muster the most power. Even Jacob Frey, the Minneapolis mayor who just scraped by to win reelection against a Somali candidate, campaigns in Somali.
Minneapolis Mayor, Jacob Frey, speaks Somali to his supporters.
— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) September 20, 2025
FFS. pic.twitter.com/cuoyIYdHHI
Frey was able to win reelection by creating a coalition between white voters and a Somali clan that competes with Omar Fateh's.
“Most of these cases, unlike a lot of Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud cases nationally, aren’t just overbilling,” Thompson said at a press conference announcing the indictments. “These are often just purely fictitious companies solely created to defraud the system, and that’s unique in the extent to which we have that here in Minnesota.”
Thompson said many firms enrolled in the program “operated out of dilapidated storefronts or rundown office buildings.” The perpetrators often targeted people recently released from rehab, signing them up for Medicaid services they had no intention of providing. He noted many owners of companies engaged in HSS fraud had “other companies through which they billed other Medicaid programs, such as the EIDBI autism program, the . . . Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services program, the . . . Integrated Community Support program, the Community Access for Disability Inclusion . . . program, PCA services, and other Medicaid-waivered services.”
“What we see are schemes stacked upon schemes, draining resources meant for those in need. It feels never ending,” Thompson said. “I have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor and the depth of the fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away.”
Column: State government was warned, repeatedly, but still they failed to stop the theft of the people's money. A quick thread of some of the reporting that went into this, most of it courtesy of former Reformer reporter @deenafaywinter https://t.co/dBbiLoDLfm
— j. patrick coolican (@jpcoolican) September 25, 2025
After years of allowing the fraud to pillage the taxpayers' pockets, the investigations by the US Attorney have placed a (too dim) spotlight on just how much pillaging is going on. Running for reelection after a thankfully failed run for Vice President, he is blaming unnamed organized crime figures for the fraud he and our Attorney General, Keith Ellison, helped along.
RIDICULOUS! If more than a billion dollars of fraud on the taxpayers’ dime wasn’t enough, @Tim_Walz is admitting there is more on the way.
— Tom Emmer (@tomemmer) October 21, 2025
And instead of taking accountability, he is blaming “organized crime” in MN!
Tim Walz is a scam artist! pic.twitter.com/1fS2y43bQ9
With all due respect to Tom Emmer (for whom I once worked), Walz is not really a scam artist. He is a key part of that organized crime ring that is selling Minnesota taxpayers to the Somalis, who are corrupting politics here and in their home country.
Speaking of which...the Somalis are here as "refugees," with the claim that they are unsafe in their home country. Except that the travel between Somalia and here is robust, with Somalis often going home for visits, giving the lie to the claim that their lives are at risk in their home country.
Ilhan Omar caught AGAIN pledging her allegiance to SOMALIA.
— Sharmake (@Maydhalaalis) February 1, 2024
This time in this SHOCKING speech in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 27 December 2022. FULL VIDEO⬇️ pic.twitter.com/plPGlvSzpT
Ilhan Omar herself was a refugee, but travels back to Somalia to pledge allegiance to the country on a regular basis, and often tells her Somali constituents that her primary interest is Somalia, not America. She does so, of course, in Somali.
US Rep. Ilhan Omar attends a pro-Somalian event and SMILES when she is introduced as someone whose interests lie with Somalia and NOT America.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 10, 2025
This person is an elected official....
pic.twitter.com/PHCsnK0Xfq
Of course, we are not supposed to talk about any of this, and when we do, we are smeared as racist. Perhaps, we are to believe that corruption and clan politics is just another sign of diversity, and diversity is our strength.
NEW: A group of "minority led nonprofits" reportedly plan to hold a press conference tomorrow objecting to "politically motivated actions by state agencies and media narratives that are disproportionately targeting minority led service providers" amid widespread fraud in… pic.twitter.com/E6NQF5n0cy
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) November 16, 2025
In 2019, Feeding Our Future received $3.4 million in federal funding disbursed by the state. In the months after the Covid-19 pandemic began, however, the nonprofit rapidly increased its number of sponsored sites. Using fake meal counts, doctored attendance records, and fabricated invoices, the perpetrators of the fraud ring claimed to be serving thousands of meals a day, seven days a week, to underprivileged children. In 2021, Feeding Our Future received nearly $200 million in funding.
In reality, the money was being used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles, and buy real estate in the United States, Turkey, and Kenya. In 2020, Minnesota officials raised concerns about the nonprofit’s rapid expansion. In response, the group filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination related to outstanding site applications, noting that Feeding Our Future “caters to . . . foreign nationals.”
“That’s the standard operating playbook for that cohort: when in doubt, claim racism, claim bias,” says David Gaither, a former Minnesota state senator and a nonprofit leader. “Even if the facts don’t point to that, it allows for many folks in the middle, or on the center-Left, to stay silent.”
Gaither believes the mainstream media, alongside Minnesota’s Democratic establishment, have long turned a blind eye to fraud within the Somali community. This, in turn, allowed the problem to metastasize. “The media does not want to put a light on this,” Gaither said. “And if you’re a politician, it’s a significant disadvantage for you to alienate the Somali community. If you don’t win the Somali community, you can’t win Minneapolis. And if you don’t win Minneapolis, you can’t win the state. End of story.”
The fraudsters have leveraged their growing political influence to cultivate close ties with Minnesota’s elected officials. Several individuals involved in the Feeding Our Future scheme donated to, or appeared publicly with, Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born congresswoman from Minneapolis. Omar’s deputy district director, Ali Isse, advocated on behalf of Feeding Our Future. Omar Fateh, a former state senator who recently ran for Minneapolis mayor, lobbied Governor Tim Walz in support of the program. And one of the accused, Abdi Nur Salah, served as a senior aide to Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey.
Of course, they are laughing at us. Clan hatred among Somalis makes American racism look tame. Here, people say mean things; over there, people are killed for being in the wrong clan.
It's not just Minnesota, and it's not just Somalis. Importing people from low-trust societies into high-trust societies destroys them. Some might argue that the refugee numbers make them a drop in a large bucket. But, as some wag once said, pour a glass of wine in a barrel of sewage and you get sewage.
But if you pour a glass of sewage in a barrel of wine, you also get sewage.
The same applies here.
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