The founder of a Minnesota-based nonprofit who was convicted of masterminding a $250 million welfare fraud scheme was ordered by a judge to forfeit luxury goods obtained with the spoils of her corruption.
Some of the Minnesota Somalians convicted in the Feeding Our Future scheme reportedly enjoyed luxurious lifestyles with money stolen from the federal government, the news coming as the state is under scrutiny regarding more alleged fraud.
Minn. Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan appeared in an Islamic garment on a Somali-language Youtube channel to tell Somali migrants she’s “got your back.”
The massive $1 billion in welfare fraud in Minnesota is causing many to ask what Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar knew and when she knew it.
The nation is only now just learning that the single largest COVID relief-fund fraud in the country occurred under Democrat Gov. Tim Walz.
Under Walz, thieves stole $250 million from a program that claimed to be feeding children — the largest fraud in the country during COVID.
Ramsey County District Court Judge John Guthmann in 2022 admonished Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) for making “inaccurate” and “false” statements in claiming he forced the governor to continue making payments to the scandal-ridden Feeding Our Future nonprofit, which is at the center of a scheme to steal $250 million from a coronavirus-era welfare program.
More than half a billion dollars was stolen from Minnesota nutrition and frontline worker programs under Gov. Tim Walz.
Democrat vice presidential nominee and Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) lax oversight of a federal food aid program led to dozens of Somali migrants stealing $250 million meant for children in need.
Two jurors were bribed and subsequently dismissed in one of the biggest coronavirus relief fraud trials in the country in Minnesota.
Federal prosecutors have charged 47 Somali Muslim immigrants in Minnesota for skimming $250 million from a coronavirus relief program.
A Minnesota couple pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud after siphoning off more than $5 million from federal funding meant to feed underserved children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fraudsters may have gotten away with tens of billions of dollars from the U.S. Department of Labor by filing claims in multiple states and using the social security numbers of dead people as aid was distributed during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal watchdog claimed Thursday.
Forty-seven people were charged in Minnesota on Tuesday with conspiracy and other counts in what Federal authorities allege is the largest fraud scheme yet to take advantage of $1.9 trillion in taxpayer funds released by the Biden administration during the coronavirus pandemic.
