President Trump has announced that he’s ending TPS or Temporary Protected Status for Somalis due to Minnesota becoming a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity… 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!”
Freedom Center Investigates had been covering Somali fraud from the beginning.
Here are some of our past stories
The Great Somali Welfare Rip-Off
$200 Million in Somali Welfare Fraud Paid for Trips to Mecca
Somali Who Lied About Feeding 1M Meals to Kids Caught Fleeing U.S.
$120,000 Cash Bribe for Juror in Somali $250M Fraud Case
A Billion Dollar Somali Autism Fraud in Minnesota
Somalis Drove 700% Increase in Minnesota ‘Autism’ Providers
After Food and Autism Fraud, Somalis Get Busted for Homeless Fraud
First Somali Refugee to Run Public Housing Admits to Stealing Millions
This is just the tip of the iceberg. When people ask me how big the fraud gets, the answer is that the sky’s the limit. We know billions have been ripped off, but we can’t even begin to quantify the full scale of it. Every welfare program enacted by Gov. Tim Walz and local authorities have been ripped off to the max and then some.
Here’s a sample from the meals program fraud.
In 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed $3.4 million in taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020, that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021.
Safari Restaurant, which boasts “traditional Somali cuisine” like french fries and safari chicken quesadilla, where Rep. Ilhan Omar had celebrated her victory party, applied to participate in the Federal Child Nutrition program.
When the money was denied, Feeding Our Future complained that “minority-owned businesses serving almost exclusively economically disadvantaged children of color” were being denied the right to serve “culturally relevant foods” to “youth” during a “national emergency”.
Crying racism worked and at its peak Safari claimed to be feeding 6,000 children a day. That’s a lot of children. Documents note that the Somali eatery claimed to be serving a comparable number of meals to “the entire St. Paul public school district.”
And the autism fraud.
EIDBI autism claims to Medicaid in Minnesota similarly shot up from $3 million in 2018 to $54 million in 2019, $77 million in 2020, $183 million in 2021, $279 million in 2022, $399 million in 2023, and nearing $400 million most of the way through 2024 for a total of over $1.4 billion.
How did autism claims rise from $3 million to $400 million a year in just 4 years?
The number of autism providers shot up 700% from 41 to 328 over 5 years. 1 in 16 Somali four-year-olds (6%) were supposedly suffering from autism leading to a mass demand for services.
And housing fraud.
Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged eight people in connection with what they called a “massive” fraud scheme in Minnesota’s Medicaid-funded housing stabilization program.
The state initially expected the housing stabilization program to cost about $2.6 million a year, but last year it cost $105.4 million, according to DHS. The program has around 21,000 participants and more than 1,800 providers.
When you can turn $3 million into $400 million a year or $3.4 million into nearly $200 million, anything is possible.
We’re still digging through various Somali welfare frauds but the bottom line is that it’s all fraud. Shameless fraud.
We can’t cope with fraud on this scale. All we can do is remove it from our country.
