Spilling the beans: Government memo exposes real reason massive Somali fraud not investigated * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

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Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn. (Video screenshot)Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn.

Minnesota and its officials have been under fire in recent weeks after a City-Journal investigation revealed bluntly: “Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.”

Now we know why the Democrat governor and the Democrats in power in the state didn’t stop it: They feared offending a “core voting bloc,” the Somalian immigrant community that was perpetrating the fraud.

Evidence shows so far that just one of the frauds was the many child-care facilities set up by the community, and their subsequent claims to have distributed many, many more daycare services or meals than they actually did, inflating their government checks.

Estimates that the schemes cost Minnesota taxpayers at least a billion dollars, much of which was sent by the Somali community back to Somalia, where it found its way into the checkbooks of al-Shabaab terrorists.

Already, the U.S. Treasury, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Housing and Urban Development are investigating.

Now, an online organization has revealed U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., reading a memo from that Democrat administration about why an investigation was not pursued.

“Here’s what a fraud investigator in the [Minnesota] attorney general’s office said. She said, ‘There is a perception that, I’m quoting now, that forcefully tackling this issue would cause political backlash from the Somali community, which is a core voting bloc for Democrats.”

The reporting organization said, “Seriously, how are Democrats not getting raided and thrown in prison?”

The Gateway Pundit said the memo, “makes the situation pretty clear.”

The Washington Free Beacon also documented that 79% of Minnesota voters “think fraud in state programs is either the biggest or a major problem in their state, and just 14 percent think Gov. Tim Walz did enough to stop the fraud, according to a Monday KSTP and Survey USA poll.”

“In total 92 percent of respondents identified the fraud as a problem. Of that 92 percent, 25 percent called it the biggest problem in the state, and 54 percent called it a major problem, and just 13 percent called it a minor problem. Sixty-nine percent of respondents said Walz needs to ‘do more’ to ‘stop fraud in Minnesota,'” the report said.

Already, prosecutors have charged dozens of fraudsters, and obtained dozens of convictions.

It came to light “after a group of mostly Somali immigrants set up a fraudulent charity, Feeding Our Future, and stole money from a federal child nutrition program. Federal investigations into the scheme, which have already led to 78 indictments, uncovered other similar Somali-related fraud schemes in Minnesota,” the Free Beacon reported.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller has confirmed the welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota centered around Somali immigrants could make for the “greatest financial fraud” in the history of the United States.

Miller charged that records show “90% of Somali households with children are on federal welfare. The real number is probably 100% because federal records always undercount. You’re talking about a population that has been imported into Minnesota in which virtually every single member of the population is receiving welfare from the federal government. This could very well end up, Laura, being the greatest financial fraud scandal in American history.”

Already, state employees have accused Gov. Tim Walz, who joined Kamala Harris on the Democrats’ failed 2024 presidential ticket, of engaging in “systemic” retaliation against whistleblowers who warned of the fraud schemes as the Justice Department prosecutes multiple federal cases.

Walz, meanwhile, has promised to “welcome more” Somalians to his state.

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Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh's articles here.