Trump, House Republicans launch new probes into Minnesota COVID fraud scheme - "President Donald Trump and congressional allies are probing Minnesota's sprawling "Feeding Our Future" fraud scheme and pressing federal agencies to recover millions in stolen taxpayer dollars, including funds that were used by convicted individuals in the scheme to finance purchases of luxury vehicles and homes that are out of reach for most Americans. Republicans say the renewed investigations are necessary because, despite dozens of convictions, federal officials are still working to recover only a fraction of the stolen money — a process that has uncovered not only the high-end vehicles and homes but also designer goods, and large amounts of cash tied to the scheme... FBI Director Kash Patel described the scheme in July as "one of the worst" in Minnesota history. "These individuals misappropriated hundreds of millions in federal funds intended to nourish vulnerable children during a time of crisis, redirecting those resources into luxury homes, high-end vehicles and extravagant lifestyles while families faced hardship," he said"
MN House GOP Rapid Response on X - "The Walz Administration just said that they do not conduct routine site visits to prevent fraud because they don't have the staff. "Medicaid is a trust-based system." Meanwhile, Republican Fraud Committee staffers were able to build a web using publicly available information that shows how associates of a Feeding Our Future defendant, and possibly the defendant himself, are STILL receiving Medicaid money!"
Wall Street Apes on X - "Senator John Kennedy reads an internal memo from the Minnesota Attorney General's office. They openly say they did not stop the Somalia immigrant fraud because Democrats would lose votes. “Here's what a fraud investigator in the 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 block for Democrats” Seriously, how are Democrats not getting raided and thrown in prison"
John Pavlovitz on X - "I would rather live next to a Somali immigrant than a MAGA, and it ain't even close."
Bad Hombre on X - "John lives in a 96% White suburb of Raleigh, North Carolina, by the way."
Amber Duke on X - "Three Somalis serving in the Maine House released a letter last week objecting to Trump calling some Somalians "garbage." Two of three are involved w/ a Maine org that is accused of stealing millions in taxpayer $ through persistent Medicaid fraud a la the Minnesota scandal."
RedWave Press on X - "SHOCKING STATS: Minnesota’s 75K+ Somali immigrant community, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
—Nearly every Somali household with children (89%) receives some form of welfare.
—More than half (52%) of children in Somali immigrant homes in Minnesota live in poverty, while only 8 percent of children in native-headed homes are in poverty.
— One in eight children in poverty in Minnesota lives in a Somali immigrant home.
—About 39% of working-age Somalis have no high school diploma, compared to just 5 percent of natives.
—Among working-age adult Somalis who have lived in the U.S. for more than 10 years, half still cannot speak English “very well”.
—About 54% of Somali-headed households in Minnesota receive food stamps, and 73% of Somali households have at least one member on Medicaid. The comparable figures for native households are 7% and 18%."
Dapper Detective on X - "🚨NEW SOMALI FRAUDSTER: Imported Somali refugee and newly elected Lewiston (ME) City Councilor, lied about where he is living and does not live in the ward he purports to represents, just INDICTED on federal gun theft charges. Pay Attention: Maine is the new Minnesota."
Somali refugee contractor defrauded Maine Medicaid funds, lied about completing services: whistleblower - "Christopher Bernardini, former program coordinator of Gateway Community Services between May 2018 and April 2025, told NewsNation that the organization has defrauded Maine’s Medicaid program. Per Gateway Community Services’ website, the organization "is a trusted resource for immigrant, refugee, and asylee communities across Greater Portland and Lewiston-Auburn," areas with large Somali migrant communities. Bernardini alleged that Gateway oversaw an electronic monitoring system that was manipulated to make it appear as though field staff had been visiting disabled and low-income clients, when these visits did not take place. The electronic monitoring system is designed to track the movements of staff. Bernardini said that despite the visits not actually taking place, taxpayers were charged for providing the services... Another former Gateway employee who asked to remain anonymous said they witnessed records being manipulated. "I saw many things happening that shouldn’t have been. Timecards being manipulated to show services being provided they were not — and times also being manipulated."... Gateway’s founder and CEO is Abdullah Ali, a Somali who came to Maine as a refugee. While serving as the organization’s executive director in 2024, he ran for president of the Somali state of Jubaland... Per the Maine Wire, Ali had previously boasted about his fundraising efforts for para-military forces in Somalia. "When I was in the U.S., I contributed to the financial support for the Jubaland-Somali army. To help the troops buy weapons, bullets and food." Gateway came to the attention of state investigators back in 2022, when the organization received a notice of violation from the MaineCare Services Program Integrity Unit, which estimated, based on a review of the organization’s records and billing during 2017 and 2018, that MaineCare had overpaid $904,000, though this was later revised down to $776,000. Among the reasons listed for why the state felt it had overpaid were a lack of signature dates and documentation for interpretive services not having matching start and stop times. Bernardini said that the questionable billing practices grew during the pandemic, when the federal government issued nearly $1 trillion as part of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). "Once the PPP loan stuff started going on, this one really ticked me off because, all of a sudden, I started seeing these staff come aboard. They’d be on board for two or three weeks." “No hours worked. I’d put in their training hours... I was doing the time cards and I started seeing bonuses, $2,000 bonuses, going to these staff that had only been with us for two weeks. Never worked a shift with a client and yet the PPP loan comes, they’re giving $2,000 away like they’re lollipops at a doctor’s office and I’m like, ‘Where the hell’s my $2,000 bonus, I’ve been here six, seven years.’” Records obtained through the Freedom of Access Act by the Maine Wire revealed that Gateway received $28.8 million in payments from MaineCare between 2019 and 2024, with $4.1 million being issued in 2024 alone. A total of $693,382 was given to Gateway in April 2022 under PPP. Bernardini had raised alarm with the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General in April 2024, requesting whistleblower protections. He wrote, "I work in the billing department for this agency and I have seen several things that are very questionable and could constitute fraud, waste, or even downright theft. I could not (conscionably) continue doing this work wondering if what we are doing is fraudulent. It does not feel right to continue along this path putting my name on all these documents while constantly wondering about the legality of these potential misdeeds by my organization." The Inspector General replied that the complaint "does not involve DHS programs or operations," and "as a result, DHS is unable to provide assistance with inquiries or complaints that fall outside DHS OIG’s jurisdiction." The Inspector General said that he could "report fraud through the state of Maine. Bernardini said he sent a tip to the Maine State auditor’s office following the email, and in April 2025, Gateway terminated his contract, saying it was discontinuing the position"
Benjamin Weingarten on X - "While originally reported that Rep. Ilhan Omar received campaign contributions from three of the Feeding Our Food scandal fraudsters totaling $7,400, evidence from campaign finance filings suggests she has actually received funds from at least eight individuals charged or associated in evidence at trial totaling nearly double that amount. Court documents also show that the U.S. government obtained at least some records connecting Rep. Omar to the fraudsters. A further review of evidence indicates that reporting likely understates the congresswoman's ties to the scandal. I've got the receipts at the link that follows 👇"
Eyal Yakoby on X - "Former Prime Minister of Somalia “It is very important that Ilhan Omar is a Somalian and that she is in the government for us.” This is wild."
Ryan James Girdusky on X - "When you consider that Somalis in Minnesota send more money to Somalia every year than they pay in state and local taxes, you realize why they care so much"
Laura Aboli Official on X - "THE UNTOLD STORY OF ILHAN OMAR’S FAMILY
Before they arrived in America as “refugees,” Ilhan Omar’s family held power in Somalia. Her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, was a colonel in Siad Barre’s military; the same regime responsible for the genocide of the Isaaq people, one of the most brutal ethnic exterminations in modern African history. Between 1987–1989 (roughly), under Siad Barre’s regime, the Somali government carried out a systematic campaign against the Isaaq-clan civilians: mass killings, aerial and artillery bombardment, forced displacement, village destruction, rape, land-mining, and other atrocities. Cities were flattened and communities wiped out. In a genocidal regime, a colonel is not an innocent bystander, he receives orders and he enforces them; he knows exactly what the state is doing. So the real story is not that Ilhan Omar’s family “fled violence”, but that they fled after their side lost. And yet she lectures America about justice and morality. History has a long memory. Sooner or later, truth catches up."
Joe Rogan Podcast News on X - "Ilhan Omar: "The U.S. government will only do what Somalians in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders.""
eigenrobot on X - "not to harp on this, but i've become aware that i don't feel that ilhan omar is an american in the way that i'm an american, and i don't believe she wants to be. her civic heart clearly lies overseas. in a legal sense, sure, she's a citizen. but it's shared sentiment, not bureaucracy, that fundamentally binds a nation. this discrepancy between law and spirit in civic inclusion is intensely personally alienating. when i understand that my government is shot through with members of outland clans and officers acting as foreign agents, when my contributions to the fisc are siphoned off to support wholly alien interests, my desire to perpetuate or participate in that government plummets. of the people, by the people, for the people? yes, but which people, exactly? dawg, is your heart even swelled with mystic chords of memory? what kind of american are you? but this is just our lives now. asabiyyah shredder goes brrrrrr"
Meme Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630: "Only about 58% of MN Somalis seem to work...at all."
"Minnesota Demographic Statistics
% in Poverty - MN Average 10%, MN Somalis 60%
% on Food Stamps - MN Average 10%, MN Somalis 43%
% Unemployed - MN Average 5%, MN Somalis 42%
% w/o H.S. Education - MN Average 7%, MN Somanlis 43%"
Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar: "80,000 Somali-Americans in Minnesota work in schools, care for seniors, and serve our community. As a former prosecutor, I've strongly supported prosecuting the fraud cases, but the President has chosen to call 80,000 Somali-Americans "garbage." These hateful attacks must stop."
Meme - Common Sense Extremists: "We went from "Somali immigrants aren't committing welfare fraud!" to "it's a good thing that Somali immigrants are committing welfare fraud!!""
Noah Smith @Noahpinion: "Gonna take a lot of shit from the rightists for this one, but the Somali welfare fraud is a bullish signal for Somalis' future success in America. If you can organize a welfare fraud that elaborate with that many people, you can also organize a drone factory."
Minneapolis police chief says Somalis should call 911 if they see ICE and local police will "immediately respond" : r/libsofreddit - "I thought we wanted to defund the police because ACAB"
Wall Street Apes on X - "A man from Somalia came to America, started a nonprofit and opened a “multimillion dollar migrant care service agency” He’s getting over $5 million per year from American taxpayers, being given no-bid contracts from Maine Governor Janet Mills, and is building a military in Somalia He has been funneling money back to Somalia to build a military in Somalia “The guy is running a migrant services agency that bills MaineCare, which is what we call Medicaid, about $5 million a year” “He said he raised money in the US to buy weapons, munitions, and supplies for paramilitary force he had hoped to lead as the president of Jubaland. Yes, that is a real state in Somalia — and to be clear, in Somalia, he's running to be the warlord of Jubaland. Elections in Jubaland aren't exactly like elections in, America, it's whoever has the most guns is able to certify the election. So he needed to buy a paramilitary organization and paramilitary support in order to win that election.”
- Abdullahi Ali’s Background came to Maine founded Gateway Community Services (a migrant services nonprofit)
- Gateway Community Services received millions in taxpayer-funded MaineCare payments and no-bid contracts from Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ administration; former employees allege systematic fraudulent billing, over-billing by nearly $1 million in earlier audits
- Governor Janet Mills created the Office of New Americans, whose sole employee (from Sudan) is a former Gateway Community Services staffer
The fraud, kick backs and money laundering by Democrats is just mind blowing"
Minnesota news outlet is getting wrecked online for story on Somali migrants' economic i mpact on Minnesota
Lance Gooden on X - "Over $1 billion in tax dollars have been stolen by Somalians in Minnesota.
MSNBC: Zero headline news coverage
CBS News: Zero headline news coverage
ABC News: Zero headline news coverage
Imagine what they’d cover up if Tim Walz became vice president."
Jack on X - "🚨BREAKING: Minnesota’s Somali fraud may reach $8 BILLION, not just $1 billion as first reported."
Rep. Kevin Kiley on X - "I am introducing the No Tax Dollars for Riots Act, legislation to deny public funding and tax-exempt status to "nonprofits" that organize riots. The group known as CHIRLA played a central role in the chaos in LA after receiving over $34 million in public funding."
The Oregonian on X - "Blind protester dragged, detained by feds says agents picked ‘the weakest person they could find’"
Homeland Security on X - "This rioter obstructed law enforcement and blocked the driveway so vehicles could not enter or exit the ICE facility creating a public safety threat for our officers and detainees. He blatantly disobeyed law enforcement orders to remain off federal property. Does the @Oregonian plan to also report on this individual yelling he “hopes somebody kills you guys and if they do, we should give them the medal of freedom” to our law enforcement? This violence against law enforcement must END. We will not be deterred by rioters. Law and order will prevail."
Confirmed Miscer ⚔️🍁🔫 on X - "Forgotten piece of Biden admin lore that still blows my mind every time: they were literally lifting fencing along the border, and then thousands of illegals would magically appear to walk through the fence"
Zoomer Alcibiades on X - "Biden admin was genuinely crazier than any conspiracy theory of the “woke left.” Kinda impressive how insane they went in just four years…"
Glinert 🇺🇸 🏭 on X - "I consider myself fairly libtarded but lot of liberals misunderstand that the Trump admin popular mandate was because people (not groypers) felt:
1. This made a satire of the concept of a nation.
2. Second order effects. demographics were changing in perceptible ways."
Did Melania Trump Merit an ‘Einstein Visa’? Probably, Immigration Lawyers Say - The New York Times - "It is known as the “Einstein visa.” Nuclear scientists, Nobel laureates and doctors get it. But so do acrobats, stunt men, event planners — and plenty of models... [there were] questions about whether Mrs. Trump had truly qualified for the visa. But several immigration lawyers rebuffed those questions, saying the requirements for the EB-1 immigrant visa leave far more room for interpretation than its nickname and its best-and-brightest reputation suggest... Marshall Cohen, a lawyer in Atlanta who specializes in EB-1s for world-ranked track and field athletes, said that he would not have hesitated to represent Mrs. Trump. “I am assuming she made a lot of money, got a lot of press and was on the cover of magazines,” he said. “She was probably a pretty easy case.” Mrs. Trump, then Melania Knauss, appeared on the cover of British GQ in 2000, the year she petitioned for the EB-1, and was featured in Sports Illustrated and other magazines later that year. “Do we need more foreign fashion models? Some might say no,” said Mr. Cohen, who led a panel titled “Proving Extraordinary Ability Is Extraordinarily Challenging” at a recent immigration lawyers’ conference. “We might need more chemical engineers. But if there is a fashion model at the top of her field, she could qualify.”... What is clear is that extraordinary intelligence is not necessary — nor sufficient on its own — to get one. Indeed, even Albert Einstein might have not qualified for an EB-1 before winning the Nobel Prize. A few years ago, Ms. Sostrin distributed a résumé to immigration lawyers at a conference without revealing that it was Einstein’s, or at least one devised from his career accomplishments. Ms. Sostrin asked them to assess the likelihood that he would be approved for an extraordinary ability visa. The consensus was that it would be very challenging... “The notion that you somehow have to be a genius or Einstein is utter fiction,” said Chris Wright, a lawyer based in Los Angeles. “We have succeeded with models no more accomplished than Melania Trump.” While the majority of applicants and recipients have titles like “space scientist,” “cancer researcher” and “software engineer,” many have less scholarly pursuits. In 2012, Mr. Wright represented Shera Béchard, a Canadian model and Playboy Playmate who successfully petitioned for an EB-1. In her petition, Mr. Wright included scantily clad photographs of Ms. Béchard. “When it’s a glamorous model and pictures show cleavage rather than research, people assume there is something underhanded going on,” said Mr. Wright, who said that he had also obtained the visas for a racecar driver, a hair dresser and a tennis player. For Glenn Boswell, a stunt performer and director used to jumping out of buildings and moving vehicles, getting the EB-1 was a relative cake walk. His lawyer filed a 439-page petition in 2016 detailing Mr. Boswell’s achievements, which include credits in “Unbroken,” “The Matrix” and “The Hobbit,” and he received approval within a week. “I was really excited when it came,” Mr. Boswell, 60, said in a phone interview from his native Australia. He had no idea he had joined an exclusive club. Daniel Riffner, 35, an acrobat for Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, compiled a dossier in 2009 about his 25-year career, packed with medals, pictures of his high-wire acts and recommendations from coaches. Kinan Azmeh, 41, a Syrian clarinetist in Brooklyn who is a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, applied in 2012. Both received green cards... The lawyers also said that scholars and scientists have a tougher time winning approval than models, actors and athletes."
From 2018. Doesn't stop left wingers today screeching about how Melania committed immigration fraud and must be deported
Arizona tribal member nearly deported after Iowa jail issues ICE detainer by mistake - "Leticia Jacobo... was booked into the Polk County Jail in Des Moines, Iowa, where she currently lives, in September for allegedly driving with a suspended license. Jacobo was scheduled to be released on Nov. 11, but what should have been a routine process was complicated and delayed by an erroneously issued ICE detainer. She was ultimately allowed to leave just before 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 12... Lt. Mark Chance, a spokesman for the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which oversees the jail, said that the ICE detainer against Jacobo was the result of a clerical mix-up and was intended for a different person who was booked in the jail at the same time. ICE agents requested a detainer be placed on that person, but a mistake resulted in it being put on Jacobo’s file, instead... Polk County Jail has a 287(g) agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That partnership authorizes local law enforcement officials to perform some immigration enforcement functions, including preparing removal paperwork, interrogating people who have been arrested about their citizenship status and comparing their biographic information against U.S. Department of Homeland Security databases to identify people who may be eligible for deportation. The purpose of the program is to cut down on the investigative legwork for ICE and increase deportations. Police officers trained under the 287(g) program can issue ICE detainers based on the information they’ve gathered or at the written request of federal officials. Detainers allow a person in custody to be held for an extra 48 hours after their scheduled release time, even if they have not yet been convicted of a crime, to give ICE agents time to take them into custody."
Naturally, left wingers got very upset over this and blamed ICE and claimed he almost got deported, even though ICE wasn't involved in detaining him and he wasn't even handed over to ICE. Clearly, the fact that some people are wrongly detained on suspicion of murder means that we cannot detain anyone for murder
Ariana Jasmine on X - ""Show me your papers" is how the Holocaust began "Show me your papers" is how the Rohingya genocide began "Show me your papers" is how the Rwandan genocide began "Show me your papers" is where America is at right now...."
Fusilli Spock on X - ""Show me your papers" is how I get on an airplane "Show me your papers" is how I buy Sudafed "Show me your papers" is how I pay with credit cards Good grief, Hitler drank water too, not everything we do leads to the Holocaust."
Meme - "If I travel to any other country I'll need to provide a passport and likely a tourist visa. If I break a law in that country I would be subject to their justice system."
"Makes you think back to the COVID era doesn't it?"
"Don't forget show us your vaccine papers!"
I keep seeing left wingers talk about "show me your papers". Ironic. Not so long ago, we were told that: "Just had to show a cop my driving passport on my way to buy alcohol with my age passport. Maybe later I’ll go to Costco with one of my capitalism passports. This morning my partner and I decided to use our money passport to grab breakfast. What’s next? Maybe we will go use our library passport to take out a couple books. Or maybe we will go do some physical activity with our exercise passports. Maybe we will cap off date night with a Netflix movie as we use one of our entertainment passports." Having to show ID is only wrong when that pushes the left wing agenda. Left wingers loved covid vaccine passports - which crucially were not just forms of identification but more importantly contingent on having done something, and which violated bodily autonomy (which is also only important when it pushes the left wing agenda)
George on X - "NBC News just went to the border and the reporter was shocked at how much things have changed under Trump. "The last time I was in Eagle Pass was two years ago... and I saw more migrants crossing a single point in one day than I had in 9 years of covering immigration... Now it's a total change." I can't believe they actually did honest journalism for once."
Republicans against Trump on X - "In Hoffman Estates, Illinois, ICE dragged a girl out of a car, slammed her to the ground, then pinned her face down and knelt on her neck. “I’m 15!” she cries out. “I’m not resisting!” What has America become?"
Tricia McLaughlin on X - "Imagine being so desperate to demonize law enforcement you post a video from a burglary arrest Chicago Police made over a year ago. This isn’t even ICE."
Dapper Detective on X - "🚨An illegal alien from Algeria raped two women in the back of his taxi in separate incidents is back on the road, thanks to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg allowing “Mohammed Bellebia” to plead guilty to lesser charges and harboring him from ICE. @ZohranKMamdani is smiling ear to ear."
James Fishback on X - "So-called American companies say they have no choice but to use the H-1B program because they “can’t find Americans for these jobs.” Here’s the ugly truth: they’re not even looking for Americans. They refuse to interview them. They hide job postings in obscure newspapers to “check the box,” and when no one “applies,” they import another foreign worker—denying yet another qualified American a job, a wage, and the dignity and purpose that come with both. It’s disgraceful. It’s time to finally and fully dismantle the H-1B scam."
I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 on X - "Meet Democrat Tennessee State Senator Heidi Campbell. She votes to give illegal immigrants driver’s licenses and blocks police from cooperating with ICE yet has the nerve to tell Elon Musk, a legal immigrant, that America is “not his country.” She attacks a man who creates jobs, pays millions in taxes, and donates generously all in a single year, more than she will ever contribute in her lifetime. Failed in the music industry, she is now just another puppet of the Democratic Party living off hardworking taxpayers, including legal immigrants. Her hypocrisy is disturbing and demoralizing to all legal immigrants. Someone needs to tell her it’s time to update her profile picture!"
@amuse on X - "SANCTUARY CITIES: Democrat cities are shutting off Flock cameras because ICE was using them to catch criminal aliens. Cambridge paused its system to protect illegals, but had no issue using it to ticket Americans. Across the country, Democrat-run cities are pausing or dismantling Flock camera networks after discovering ICE used the systems to locate undocumented criminals. Cambridge, MA halted its network to preserve “privacy” for illegal immigrants, even though residents were still monitored and ticketed for traffic violations. More than a dozen cities in Western states have taken similar actions, citing fear that data could reach federal authorities. Critics say Democrats are sabotaging public safety to preserve their sanctuary policies."
