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Horn of Africa-based Islamist movement affiliated with al-Qaeda
Federal prosecutors have charged scores of people in multiple Minnesota fraud cases that involve programs such as Feeding Our Future, Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services (HSS), and autism services...
Federal prosecutors and reporters describe a sprawling set of frauds tied to Minnesota social‑services programs that prosecutors say involved dozens of defendants and more than $1 billion in alleged l...
Federal and state reporting shows dozens of Minnesota fraud cases tied to social‑service programs with defendants predominantly of Somali ancestry; prosecutors have charged roughly 86–87 people and se...
Federal and state reporting shows dozens of criminal cases tied to multiple Minnesota fraud schemes: prosecutors have charged roughly 70–86 people across related probes, with reporting commonly citing...
Federal and state reporting shows roughly 78 people have been charged in the recent Minnesota fraud investigations, with more than 50 convictions or guilty pleas reported so far; multiple outlets say ...
Federal and state prosecutions tied to what prosecutors call sprawling fraud schemes in Minnesota have resulted in at least 77–87 people charged and dozens of convictions: Reuters reports “at least 77...
Federal prosecutors have charged about 78 people in Minnesota’s pandemic-era welfare/COVID-relief fraud investigations; reporting across outlets says roughly 56 people have pleaded guilty and about 59...
Governor Tim Walz is accused primarily of allowing widespread fraud in Minnesota’s social-services and pandemic-era aid programs, retaliating against whistleblowers who raised alarms, and presiding ov...
Minnesota authorities’ investigations into fraud schemes tied to members of the Somali community span several years and involve multiple large cases that federal prosecutors have said amounted to “hun...
Somali immigrants in Minnesota access mainstream federal and state safety-net programs—like SNAP (food stamps), Medicaid and various state-funded social services—through the same enrollment systems us...
There is no single, authoritative count of “how many Islamist terrorist attacks have there been” in the sources provided; databases and analyses count attacks differently and focus on specific years, ...
Claims that “88%” of Somali Americans are on welfare and that Somalis stole “more than $1 billion” are widespread in recent commentary, but reporting shows a complex mix of documented fraud investigat...
Reporting shows two overlapping but distinct threads: long-term public-safety and socioeconomic challenges in Minneapolis neighborhoods with large Somali populations, notably Cedar‑Riverside, document...
Federal prosecutors have charged dozens in a sweeping Minnesota fraud probe tied to pandemic-era child nutrition and other social-service programs; reporting says at least 56 people have pleaded guilt...
Multiple media outlets and federal officials report that prosecutors have charged dozens in schemes tied to Minnesota pandemic-era aid — including the Feeding Our Future case that federal prosecutors ...
Reporting assembled in late 2024–2025 documents a wave of indictments and investigations tied to multiple Minnesota welfare and Medicaid programs that prosecutors and commentators say involved many de...
Somali Minnesotans are a large, long-established community concentrated in the Twin Cities that local officials and analysts say contribute substantially through work, entrepreneurship and consumer ac...
Federal prosecutors and investigative outlets have uncovered and reported large, multi-program fraud schemes in Minnesota that involve dozens of defendants and millions — by some accounts hundreds of ...
Federal and state fraud prosecutions tied to pandemic-era programs have placed Minnesota’s large Somali diaspora at the center of national scrutiny: prosecutors say a substantial share of those charge...
An anonymous X account claiming to represent about 480 Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) employees published a long post on November 30–December 1, 2025, alleging they warned Gov. Tim Walz ...