Which Somali community leaders have been named or questioned in the fraud probe?

1. What the reporting actually identifies by name

Among the articles provided, the clearest individual name tied to federal charges is Asha Farhan Hassan, who is reported as being federally charged in a scheme that cheated a Minnesota health‑care program of at least $14 million ^[1]; beyond that, most major outlets cited here — including The New York Times and KSAT — discuss aggregate defendant totals, program vulnerabilities and prosecutorial claims without cataloguing a list of named “Somali community leaders” who have been publicly accused or interviewed by investigators ^{[2] [3]}.

2. The phrase “community leaders” in political and oversight material

Several sources and political actors use the term “Somali community leaders” in ways that are consequential but not specific: the House Oversight Committee release alleges a meeting in which donations from Somali community leaders were discussed and seeks documents from state officials, but it does not provide a public list of those leaders or show that they were criminally charged or formally questioned in the fraud probe in the released excerpts ^[4]; similarly, White House and opinion pieces repeatedly cast leadership responsibility broadly without naming individuals in those excerpts ^[5].

3. Prosecutors’ focus has been defendants and organizations, not a named leadership class

Federal prosecutors and news outlets emphasize the number of defendants and the role of nonprofit networks such as Feeding Our Future rather than releasing a roster of “community leaders” under investigation; reporting describes dozens of defendants linked to pandemic‑era child nutrition, housing, and autism program schemes and notes that the majority are Somali Americans, but does not, in the provided material, equate that with a list of named leaders who were questioned by investigators ^{[2] [3]}.

4. Political claims and national rhetoric have filled gaps in public naming

National political rhetoric and right‑wing outlets have amplified allegations and pointed fingers toward Somali leaders and remittance flows to Somalia — including unverified claims tying proceeds to al‑Shabaab — but those assertions in the provided sources are contested or lack corroboration in the same reporting and often conflate community identity with criminality ^{[6] [7]}. FactCheck and Time note the political targeting of the Somali community even as prosecutors point to a large number of Somali‑background defendants, underscoring the difference between named criminal defendants and broadly described “leaders” ^{[1] [8]}.

5. What is not present in the provided reporting

The assembled sources do not supply a public, consistently cited list of Somali community leaders who have been formally named, indicted, or publicly questioned as leaders in the probe; while some outlets reference a “Somali‑born leader” sentenced in the Feeding Our Future case or discuss donations and meetings involving unnamed Somali leaders, the excerpts here do not include additional specific leader names or documentation of formal questioning beyond the defendants named by prosecutors ^{[8] [4]}.

6. Bottom line for readers and researchers

Based on the documents provided, the only explicitly named Somali‑ancestry individual tied to federal charges in these snippets is Asha Farhan Hassan ^[1], while other references to “community leaders” appear in oversight letters and political commentary without concrete public naming or evidence of formal questioning in the reporting provided ^{[4] [5]}. To confirm whether particular Somali civic, religious or nonprofit leaders have been directly questioned or implicated, primary source court filings, federal press releases and local investigative reporting beyond the excerpts here would need to be consulted.