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Previous cases of fraud in Minnesota, including food-aid fraud and other childcare fraud schemes, with arrests and prosecutions
is in the midst of multiple overlapping fraud investigations that prosecutors say touch scores of cases and potentially hundreds of millions — and by some federal estimates, as much as billions — of d...
Nick Shirley, a 23‑year‑old YouTuber who styles himself an independent journalist, posted a viral video in late December 2025 alleging that Somali‑run daycare centers in Minnesota had been paid millio...
A series of federal and state-federal investigations since 2022 has produced dozens of charges and multiple convictions tied to programs that receive federal Medicaid and other social-services dollars...
Prosecutions tied to alleged child-care and related benefit fraud in Minnesota span more than a decade and involve both individual owners and corporate entities; specific named defendants reported in ...
's recent fraud scandals encompass prosecutions, federal investigations, and sweeping federal actions tied to multiple social‑services programs, drawing national scrutiny and intense political battles...
The available reporting does not provide a complete, published tally of how many individual defendants in the fraud probes have been sentenced to prison versus those who received probation or stays of...
No reporting in the assembled sources confirms a new arrest directly tied to the recent viral childcare-fraud allegations in Minnesota; multiple outlets say it is presently unclear whether any arrests...
State reporting and court records show that has prosecuted multiple providers over the past decade but that convictions have been uneven: some defendants were convicted, some cases ended in hung jurie...
A by accusing Minneapolis daycares of billing for children who were not present sparked federal and state probes, a freeze on federal child‑care payments to , and intense political fallout; investigat...
A roughly $1.03 million community project funding request tied to and two Democratic senators was included in a House minibus and later removed after Republican objections; conservatives say the earma...
Reporting establishes that significant, provable fraud has occurred within ’s social-services ecosystem—federal prosecutors and state audits have secured convictions and identified hundreds of million...
Federal and state authorities responded rapidly after Nick Shirley’s viral videos: the Department of Health and Human Services froze child-care payments to Minnesota and federal law‑enforcement agenci...
Rep. Ilhan Omar has been the subject of multiple state and federal inquiries and political demands for investigation, the clearest formal finding coming from the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board, whic...
Minnesota’s multiyear probes into alleged social‑service fraud have sharply reframed parts of the public debate about refugees: federal authorities say massive thefts implicate programs serving childr...
Federal and state probes into alleged fraud in Minnesota are active and sprawling: investigators have focused on multiple social-service programs (including child care, Medicaid-related services, hous...
Federal and local reporting documents a large, multi-pronged fraud investigation in Minnesota that has produced dozens of indictments and convictions tied to programs such as child nutrition, housing ...
A viral video by independent creator Nick Shirley alleging widespread fraud at Somali-owned daycare centers in Minnesota triggered state and federal scrutiny, but immediate inspections found many cent...