I tell you what - Democrats and Somalis are going to rue the day the Senate Dems forced the government into that extended shutdown. That was the tipping point, and just the extra bit of time needed to bring this extraordinary, biblical amount of waste, fraud, and abuse into the public sphere, where it had been floating at the edges for decades.
Everyone has been watching the Minnesota Somali scandals get deeper, more sordid, and, oh, dear God - more expensive than we ever thought possible.
How does one relatively mid-sized community of 80,000 refugees account for upwards of $8 BILLION - that's with a 'B' - in fraud?
OMG — multiple whistleblowers in Minnesota have reportedly told lawmakers they believe the total amount of Somali-related fraud is closer to $8 billion, not just $1 billion.
— Jack Straw (@JackStr42679640) December 8, 2025
This situation keeps getting worse for “Tampon Tim.” pic.twitter.com/BtAjRJyDWV
A couple of hundred million here and there adds up.
When everyone's child is autistic?
“Three back-to-back large-scale fraud schemes have cost U.S. taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars,” @Saeed_beeldeeq explains, breaking down a report alleging that Minnesota taxpayer funds were funneled to Somalia pic.twitter.com/zfJPCsvlCz
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) November 24, 2025
Adds up.
$47M for one part of the Feeding Our Futures scheme that cost over $300M.
This is a big one
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 26, 2025
Immigrant from Somalia named Abdimajid Nur stole $47 million dollars from American taxpayers in Minnesota
“He used fraud money for a trip to the Maldives and to get a College Degree, spending money on the website paymetodoyourhomework. com to finish it”
“They… pic.twitter.com/zpfdzQuhlk
Now, I love a little paper out of Maine called the Maine Wire. They do some tremendous reporting, and you all have read some of their work here when I link to it.
Another resource for our money is my friend Oilfield Rando, who runs his own site, RandoLand.us, that tracks government spending through grants and awards.
One thing I have learned recently from Rando is that there is a pretty hefty Somali contingent in Maine, also drawing some significant taxpayer support, or at least it was until the Trump administration cut a fair amount of the funding. This has affected the Somali Bantu farmers among other Somali interests, such as the United Somali Women of Maine.
Who knew, right?
The Maine Wire is on top of local corruption as well as the disinterest public officials exhibit when asked by constituents who are concerned about the number of Somalis in their locales.
Here's how a socialist city councilor in Portland reacted when a constituent reached out with concerns about Somali welfare fraud: pic.twitter.com/eAMfAIiRYg
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) December 9, 2025
Steve Robinson is the Editor-in-Chief of the Maine Wire and has a particular hard spot in his heart for the antics of Governor Janet Mills. He recently discovered she's signed contracts to import another 75,000 foreigners to her state.
What she didn't want was for anyone to know.
They tell us that replacement theory is racist and then they award $200k in taxpayer money to a migrant NGO to help bring 75k migrants into Maine.
— Steve Robinson (@BigSteve207) December 9, 2025
This is a no-bid contract doc that Mills tried to hide from us. pic.twitter.com/WUysaN5U6u
More Somalis?
Not known yet.
What is known is that Robinson has just exposed another massive taxpayer-funded Somali scam ring. This one is Medicaid-based.
A Somali-owned company may have defrauded Maine in a manner similar to schemes that ripped off at least $1 billion from Minnesota, a whistleblower told NewsNation Monday.
Christopher Bernardini, a former “billing guru” at Gateway Community Services, said that the company falsified documents to obtain payment from Maine’s Medicaid program for services to low-income and disabled clients, NewsNation reported. Abdullahi Ali, the owner of the company, reportedly ran for office in Jubaland, a region of Somalia, and boasted about funding a militia there, according to The Maine Wire.
“I have a passion for helping people and I thought that we were doing the right thing this whole time,” Bernardini told NewsNation, later adding, “When I had clients calling me to tell me their staff hadn’t shown up and I was told to bill those hours anyway. It just got worse and worse until I started really putting up a stink.”
Guess what Maine Democrats have to say about the revelations?
Oh, you'll never guess.
...Gateway Community Services received $28.8 million in Medicaid funds from Maine, according to documents obtained by The Maine Wire via a Freedom of Access Act request.
Democrats in Maine have attacked Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles of Maine as a racist for raising concerns about The Maine Wire’s reports.
A Somali non-profit leader was billing MaineCare while running to be the Warlord of Jubaland.@BigSteve207 joined @CarlHigbie to explain how the Mills administration enabled the grift: pic.twitter.com/2iSkCUk8V3
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) December 3, 2025
How strange. The tribal society is connected between states.
🚨 BREAKING: Whistleblower reveals MAJOR Somali fraud in MAINE, just like Minnesota, as 3rd world migrants flood the region
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 9, 2025
The Maine Somali executives have connections to Minnesota.
Check EVERY blue state, NOW.
"It could be in the MILLIONS. The audit revealed $1M in 2018. Our… pic.twitter.com/wFfN3CzJTQ
What is also known is that as Rando and Robinson begin really peeling back the onion on the Somali social services grift underway in Maine, another brewing scandal all about Somalians is now erupting in *checks map* Ohio.
This is quite a setup they have going in the Buckeye State.
BREAKING - Somalis in Ohio have just been exposed running an EBT fraud ring by owning restaurants with attached grocery stores, using welfare benefits to buy ingredients in bulk and funneling them straight into their cash-paying eateries while reporting losses for tax write-offs. pic.twitter.com/RHIBcwSmvi
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) December 9, 2025
This lady's take on what is happening in her city of Columbus is simply gobsmacking - the absolute audacity is mindblowing.
And she addresses something I was kind of shocked by, reporting on the British government paying welfare to Muslim second, third, and fourth wives. She says we're paying for them, too. But since they can't be acknowledged as wives in this country, they all get their own EBT cards. Then they live off of taxpayers as individuals, and their children are our dependents as well.
HOLY SMOKES
🚨 BREAKING: Ohio whistleblower EXPOSES massive Somali fraud in Columbus, OHIO – America's 2nd largest Somali community!
— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) December 6, 2025
"80% of government housing taken by Somalis... brand new luxury cars in the lots, designer bags, iPhones in hijabs – all on YOUR tax dollars via EBT scams &… pic.twitter.com/isvrb8360c
..."80% of government housing taken by Somalis... brand new luxury cars in the lots, designer bags, iPhones in hijabs – all on YOUR tax dollars via EBT scams & polygamy loopholes (extra wives = extra benefits to stock their stores!)"
Minnesota was just the start.
Isn't it TIME for ICE raids in OHIO?
Deport the fraudsters, @RealTomHoman!
If even half of what she says is true - and why would I not believe it after seeing Minnesota, Maine, and the other fellow from Ohio's video - this is unacceptable.
It has to stop.
You know the Mafia is sick to their collective stomach, wondering how they never got away with this level of fraud and why any of them ever went to jail.
Finding out my taxes pay for a 100 acre Somali farm in Maine https://t.co/mSJu1GRUM6 pic.twitter.com/UoJSE6kEJp
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) November 25, 2025
When it was just a farm we were paying for, it seemed so quaint.
Now it ain't.
Who's next?
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