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The topic of pandemic-era billing fraud and its impact on refugee assistance policies in Minnesota.
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...
Yes: multiple, documented fraud schemes and alleged schemes have been uncovered across Minnesota’s social‑services and pandemic‑era programs, producing dozens of indictments, convictions, criminal cha...
Minnesota’s recent scandals involve an array of fraud schemes tied to state social-service programs that prosecutors say have ensnared dozens of providers and generated staggering alleged losses; fede...
The available reporting shows that a significant number of individuals charged or convicted in recent welfare and aid schemes are Somali or Somali-American, but the evidence does not support the claim...
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...
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...
Between 2015 and 2024, Minnesota’s formal refugee‑assistance framework — notably Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) and related Refugee Employment and Social Services — remained a primary pathway for newly...