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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...
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...
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 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...
Federal and state reporting and prosecutions in 2024–2025 show multiple major fraud investigations in Minnesota that involve Somali individuals or Somali-run clinics: big prosecutions include the Feed...
Federal and state reporting shows multiple large fraud schemes in Minnesota programs during Gov. Tim Walz’s tenure, including a roughly $250 million COVID-era school meals scandal and investigations t...
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...
The federal indictment and related charging documents link Vance Boelter to what journalists and prosecutors have described as a list or notebook of lawmakers primarily through physical evidence recov...
Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota — including acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson — and multiple senior supervisors in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division’s criminal section gave notice...
Investigators built the Boelter case around forensic evidence from search warrants (guns, a police‑style SUV, body armor), digital device data and voluminous records and video seized in the manhunt; p...
Six senior career prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota — including Joseph H. Thompson, Harry Jacobs, Melinda Williams and Thomas Calhoun‑Lopez — resigned amid a dispute over the Ju...
Federal prosecutors and U.S. administration officials have repeatedly cited a headline estimate that Minnesota programs may have lost roughly $9 billion or more to fraud since 2018, but that figure is...
Since 2018 Minnesota has been the subject of multiple audits and reviews into social‑service spending, most notably a state‑ordered third‑party audit covering 14 “high‑risk” Medicaid programs and a 20...
Available reporting identifies Joseph H. Thompson as the federal prosecutor who “has overseen the fraud cases” in Minneapolis and led public statements about the investigations . The sources repeatedl...
Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis, led publicly by U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson and teams from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, have overseen large prosecutions tied to pandemic-era and o...
Prosecutors say they have voluminous, documentary and physical evidence tying Vance Boelter to a planned, politically targeted attack: notebooks and writings listing names and targets, security and po...