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Reports say at least 77 people have been charged in multiple Minnesota fraud probes and many defendants are Somali; prosecutors and news outlets note that a white Minnesota woman alleged to be a ringl...
Federal prosecutors say dozens of people have been charged across multiple Minnesota schemes tied to pandemic-era nutrition, housing-stabilization and autism services fraud; reporting cites at least 5...
No reporting in the provided sources shows criminal indictments or charges filed against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz or unnamed “close aides” themselves; the coverage instead documents dozens of federal i...
Documented court records and Justice Department filings tie specific Somali-named defendants to large fraud schemes in Minnesota — most notably the Feeding Our Future child-nutrition case in which mul...
Federal and state investigations into multiple fraud schemes tied largely to Minnesota’s Somali community have produced dozens of indictments and allegations of “hundreds of millions” to “billions” in...
Available official statewide crime data tools exist but do not break out crime rates by neighborhood ethnicity; local reporting links higher crime in some Minneapolis neighborhoods like Cedar‑Riversid...
Federal officials are investigating roughly $700 million in U.S. cash that the Transportation Security Administration flagged in passenger luggage leaving Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport ...
Minnesota has been the center of an expansive fraud investigation that federal prosecutors say involves dozens of defendants and potentially more than $1 billion in stolen public funds, with the major...
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar sponsored or introduced the 2020 MEALS Act (also called the Maintaining Essential Access to Lunch for Students Act) that eased rules to allow nontraditional providers to deliv...
Available reporting does not provide a single, authoritative count of “Somalia-origin gang-related charges” filed in Minnesota since 2020; news accounts focus instead on two distinct threads — large C...
Federal prosecutors have charged dozens of people in multiple Minnesota fraud schemes, most prominently the Feeding Our Future child‑nutrition case that authorities say involved at least $240–250 mill...
Multiple news reports say federal prosecutors have charged dozens in large COVID‑era fraud schemes tied to Minnesota’s Somali community, and authorities are examining where the stolen money went — inc...
Available reporting shows U.S. authorities have pursued and removed some Somali nationals on criminal or immigration grounds, but current sources do not report any U.S.- or Somalia‑based organizers be...
CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz publicly warned Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz that the federal agency could withhold Medicaid payments unless the state fixes what Oz called a systemic fraud problem that he ...
Minnesota law enforcement and federal prosecutors have pursued a large, multi-year enforcement effort targeting schemes that allegedly bilked state and federal social‑services programs—resulting in nu...
Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis — led publicly by Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. (Joe) Thompson — have overseen dozens of indictments and convictions tied to multiple fraud schemes that federal aut...
Federal and local reporting shows a series of fraud prosecutions tied to pandemic-era school meal programs have produced dozens of defendants — many of them Somali or of Somali descent — and that rece...
Prosecutors in the Minnesota cases have described a wide-ranging set of schemes: the Feeding Our Future “meals” fraud in which defendants allegedly created sites and submitted false meal counts to cla...
Prosecutors in Minnesota have tied a series of large welfare‑fraud prosecutions to Somali‑run operations by pointing to patterns of billing, organizational links, recruited participants and financial ...
U.S. investigators point to a mix of sanctions designations, law‑enforcement statements, and financial‑intelligence alerts linking remittance channels and money‑service businesses to networks that hav...