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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 major news outlets say has sustained losses from that run from hundreds of millions into the low billions, but precise totals are contested and under active investigation; pros...
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...
There is no single, legally settled dollar figure for “how much money the Somalis stole in ”; federal prosecutors and news organizations have produced a range of estimates as investigations expanded, ...
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...
have publicly suggested that fraud across 14 state-run Medicaid and social-service programs since 2018 could exceed $9 billion, a figure derived from a preliminary assessment that more than half of ro...
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...
has been the focus of sprawling federal and state fraud investigations into multiple social-services programs, with prosecutors saying dozens have been convicted and investigators probing programs tha...
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...
Federal and state investigators describe an extensive fraud crisis in that prosecutors and congressional leaders estimate could involve billions of dollars siphoned from Medicaid, child-care, food and...
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...
Federal prosecutors say orchestrated one of the largest pandemic-era thefts of child nutrition funds—roughly in filings—and the nonprofit’s founder, , was convicted at trial along with at least one co...
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...