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November 30, 2025

I am amazed that the New York Times actually allowed this to be printed in that paper. After devoting 50? some pages of every negative look, action, word that could be rooted out, this is truly amazing.

Maybe for all of his brash statements and bull dozer response Trump/ conservatives may actually accomplish something

November 30, 2025

Massive fraud by Somali immigrants in Minnesota hands GOP political hammer against liberal programs

Federal prosecutors have uncovered multiple fraud schemes involving Somali immigrants in Minnesota that have siphoned billions in taxpayer money from food, welfare and autism safety net programs and even routed some to overseas terrorists.

The scandal uncovered by Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson in Minneapolis has handed Republicans a political cudgel heading into the 2026 election to bash liberals like Gov. Tim Walz for creating a welfare state with little or no safeguards and now countless victims of fraud.

The dragnet has already resulted in 77 indictments for fraud against a food welfare program called Feeding our Future as well as a medical professional who prosecutors alleged falsely diagnosed Somali children to steal $14 million from a federal autism assistance program.

"These are things that, if well used, this is a good way to help our help our families and our friends, kind of with that hand up to continue to climb the American Dream ladder, but it was completely squandered, completely mismanagement, the Democrats, you know, were a complete failure," Rep. Brad Finstad, R-Minn., told Just the News this week.

"And quite frankly, you almost wonder if they're just compliant in this, and they knew what was going on. How do they sit back with a blind eye to this is beyond negligence, it is criminal," he added.

Federal authorities say the fraud across multiple programs in Minnesota alone now totals in the billions of dollars and continues to grow. And last week officials told Congress that some of the money siphoned away by Somali immigrants made its way to Kenya and Somalia to the Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group Al Shabab.

"You look at the money, you look at the people that have been arrested and put in jail, and we're tracking this money back to Kenya, to Somalia, and quite frankly, it could be Al Shabab," Finstad said.

The scale of fraud inside the Somali community in Minnesota is so large that it is now commanding attention by national figures, including House Speaker Mike Johnson.

"Millions in stolen Minnesota welfare dollars have been funneled to Al-Shabaab - an ISIS-aligned TERROR group?" Johnson wrote on X this weekend. "This happened because Democrats built a system so loose, so corrupt, and so politically timid that fraudsters exploited it."

President Donald Trump also weighed in on Saturday, revoking a special temporary protective status for Somalis in Minnesota and decrying the level of fraud the community has caused in Minnesota.

"Minnesota, under Governor Waltz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity. I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota," he announced in Truth Social.

"Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It's OVER!" he added.

On Thursday, the 77th defendant in the food welfare program scheme was indicted, and his case gives a sense of how systemic and organize the fraud schemes have been.

Federal prosecutors said Ousman Camara, 45, was indicted on nine charges alleging fraud, federal programs bribery, and money laundering.

Camara was the owner of K's Dollar Grocery and Deli, a small storefront grocery store in north Minneapolis. In August 2015, the Agriculture Department disqualified Camara and his store from food stamps due to suspected fraud.

In September 2020, prosecutors alleged, Camara enrolled K's Grocery in the Federal Child Nutrition Program under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future. In 2020 and 2021, Camara fraudulently claimed to be serving meals to 1,000 children a day, seven days a week, at his site when he wasn't.

In all, Camara claimed to have served more than 300,000 meals to children, for which he claimed to be entitled to more than $1 million in Federal Child Nutrition Program reimbursement, authorities said.

Camara did not use these funds to purchase food to feed children. Instead, he used the money to fund his lifestyle, pay his credit card bills, and buy a building in north Minneapolis and also sent some of that money overseas, prosecutors alleged.

Republicans across the country are signaling they intend to use the fraud in Minnesota to run against the far left's open borders, welfare m-driven policies

"This story is a perfect storm of progressive governance: non-existent immigration vetting, massive welfare and benefits fraud, and American tax dollars going to people who want us dead," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said.

December 1, 2025

Minnesota politicians demand answers after a report alleges taxpayer dollars going to a Somali terror group

"We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports," the group claimed. "In addition to retaliating against whistleblower, Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance."

Walz's office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

December 2, 2025

Kare 11 News

Minnesota Medicaid Scandal Explodes: Man Living in Kenya Uncovers $200K in Fake Billing From Suspicious “Therapy” Company

A stunning new investigation has uncovered yet another alleged Medicaid fraud scheme inside Minnesota’s taxpayer-funded programs — this time involving a man who doesn’t even live in the United States anymore.

Mohamed Ali, a Minnesota Medicaid recipient now living in Kenya, requested his insurance billing records earlier this year. What he discovered set off alarms:

Over $200,000 in fake medical services — billed in his name

The charges came from a company he’d never heard of: Action Therapy LLC, a Minnesota-based business that he says provided him zero services

In just nine months — from August 2024 to May 2025 — Action Therapy:

Billed Medicaid for $211,000

Received nearly $85,000 in taxpayer money

Used fake employee names

Displayed stock photos on its website

Listed a non-working phone number (0123456789)

Operated out of a shared office suite linked to a previously raided fraud company

And remarkably, the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) raised no red flags.

“I’ve never even heard of them.”

Ali told investigators he only found out about the billing after requesting his medical history:

“Never been there before. Never even heard of it until recently.”

Despite living overseas, records show Action Therapy billed Medicaid almost daily, stacking fraudulent charges across multiple categories.

When confronted, a representative from the company blamed it on a “clerical error” and promised an internal review — a statement Ali didn’t buy.

A Suspicious Company With a Suspicious History

KARE 11 investigators tried to contact Action Therapy and quickly found problems:

Their old website suddenly vanished

Their new website listed a fake phone number

Calls went unanswered

Their “office” at a Roseville business complex was locked, dark, and empty

Even more troubling:

Action Therapy shared the exact same suite number as Liberty Plus, a company previously raided by federal agents for massive Medicaid fraud in the Housing Stabilization Program. Agents seized computers, documents, and cash after Liberty Plus was accused of billing for nonexistent services and exploiting homeless Minnesotans.

Action Therapy now claims they have “no connection” to Liberty Plus.

Federal Prosecutors: Fraud Is “Staggering”

Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson recently warned that ARMS — the Medicaid program Action Therapy now claims to operate under — is the latest hotbed of fraud, telling reporters:

“The level of fraud in these programs is staggering.”

ARMS (Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services) covers real-life skill support like budgeting, cooking, and medication management. It is overseen by Minnesota’s Department of Human Services — the same department refusing, for four months, to release basic billing data to investigators.

KARE 11 says DHS is obligated by law to provide these numbers “in a reasonable amount of time.” They still haven’t.

Minnesota’s Medicaid Fraud Problem Keeps Getting Bigger

This case is just the latest in a string of scandals involving:

Housing Stabilization payments

Certified Peer providers

Addiction recovery programs

Now ARMS mental health services

Investigators estimate hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars may have been siphoned off through fake companies, fake employees, and fake services.

Anchor Reggie Wilson summed it up bluntly:

“This continues to blow my mind… That’s a big wake-up call for Minnesota.”

Conclusion: A System in Crisis

A Minnesota man halfway across the world — living in Kenya — may have just exposed one of the largest Medicaid fraud anomalies yet.

A fake company

A fake phone number

Fake staff

A shared office with previously raided scammers

And over $200,000 in bogus charges billed to taxpayers before anyone noticed

With DHS refusing to hand over records and federal prosecutors now circling, Minnesota’s Medicaid system is facing yet another credibility crisis.

And this one may be just the beginning.

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