Drew Pavlou ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐น๐ผ on X - "Mehdi Hasan’s response to undeniable systematic fraud committed by the Somali community in Minnesota: Here are a bunch of white people who committed fraud too, therefore you should ignore Somali fraud."
Lauren Chen on X - ""Why are you focused on Somali fraud? White Americans commit fraud too!" This is such an idiotic question, I honestly struggle to accept that anyone could actually be asking it sincerely. However, since Tim Walz also tried it, for argument's sake, I'll answer genuinely. First off, let's talk about proportionality. It was recently reported that Somalis account for almost 90% of people charged with fraud in Minnesota, a place where they make up merely 2% of the population. Think about that for a second. That is such a cartoonish level of overrepresentation, even the most ardent racists and xenophobes would likely not have guessed that fraud in Minnesota could be so, so concentrated among such a tiny portion of the population. Yes, white people commit fraud, too. But clearly not nearly as often as Somalis. Practically speaking, the reason this frequency or proportionality matters (those controversial "per capita" stats!) is because of law enforcement and resource allocation. Imagine a city has 100 residents and 1 police officer. This officer is tasked with reducing fraud. Because this police officer is a good liberal, he monitors and investigates all residents equally. 100% colorblind policing. After a while, however, the officer begins to notice a pattern. It seems like 90% of the city's fraud is coming from 2 particular residents... Now, should the police officer ignore this fact and continue to spend his time equally monitoring all residents, since, after all, other residents commit fraud, too? Or should he crack down on those 2 particular residents, and in doing so, reduce the city's fraud by 90%? If you are not a leftist, or retarded, the answer is painfully obvious. This brings us to the second reason why there's such a focus on Somali fraud: It was a choice to bring them here. Yes, white Americans commit fraud, and they should be stopped. But they were born here. Their ability to defraud American taxpayers is not something the system itself facilitated. The same cannot be said for Somalis. Unlike with white Americans, the presence and crimes of Somali fraudsters is something that could have been prevented entirely by revising illegal immigration and asylum policies. Put simply, you don't get Somalis defrauding Minnesotans if you don't import Somalis. The sky-high enrolment rate of Somalis in welfare programs also provides further reason to single the group out for their crimes. Not only did America make the choice to bring these people over, they're also providing them with generous benefits... just so the Somalis can then turn around and steal taxpayer dollars? Mehdi Hasan and Tim Walz need to understand that no one is claiming *only* Somalis commit fraud. It's just that Somalis commit the most and most easily preventable fraud. Crying "but mUh WhItE PeoPle!" does nothing to change that fact."
Meme - "IF YOU BELIEVE THE STATE WITH THE LARGEST SOMALI POPULATION ACCIDENTALLY CHANGED THEIR FLAG TO LOOK JUST LIKE THE SOMALI FLAG YOU PROBLY SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO VOTE"
Meme - Greg Price @greg_price11: "The Associated Press filmed a "science" wall with a bunch of random stock photos on it and said to themselves "Yep. Looks like a totally legit daycare to me""
Chris I Realtor I Property Manager: "Looky what grok found"
"Families Poster Pack $29.99"
Trump claims Minnesota lost billions to fraud. The evidence to date isn’t close (Dec 11)
Half of $18B in federal funds for Minnesota-run programs may have been defrauded, official says (aka "Prosecutor says 14 Minnesota programs are targeted for fraud and the state is swamped with crime") (Dec 18)
MatrixMysteries on X - "“Minneapolis paid a Somalian restaurant $12 MILLION in federal child meal funds after it claimed to feed 4,000–6,000 kids a day.” The FBI watched the restaurant for 6 WEEKS. An average of 40 people showed up. If fraud this obvious still gets approved, corruption is NORMALIZED."
C3 on X - "Unreal… 3 Somali Daycares in 1 photo. Tayo Daycare, Nuna Childcare Center and Gedi Adult Daycare. Licensed for 90 kids, 71 kids and 65 adults. Tayo: $5.16 million in 2 years. Nuna: $2.58 million in 2 years. Boarded up but listed as active. The fraud is staggering."
Libs of TikTok on X - "๐จBut wait it gets MUCH worse Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs’ business partner in his healthcare company is Abdul J Surey. It appears to be the same Abdul who works for a Somali money transfer who are accused of financing islamic t*rrorism. Nothing to see here…"
Libs of TikTok on X - "Omg Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs who owns a healthcare company in Ohio receiving tax dollars, also owns another LLC with the SAME ADDRESS as the somali money transfer org accused of funding t*rrorism. His business partner appears to work for the money transfer org too. This just keeps getting worse and worse"
Eric Daugherty on X - "๐จ HOLY SMOKES. The Somalis have registered 60 "HEALTHCARE" businesses in one single dilapidated "warehouse" building. Let me repeat, sixty healthcare businesses in one freaking building It's so blatant it's CRIMINAL this was allowed to go on. HANDCUFFS."
Eric Daugherty on X - "๐จ HOLY SMOKES. The Democrat Governor of Maine gave state contracts to a Somali NGO that REGISTERED MIGRANTS TO VOTE in the 2022 election... ...that Somali NGO has been caught committing Medicaid fraud. WOW. ๐คฏ "Janet Mills, when she was forming the Office of New Americans as a migrant resettlement agency for the state of Maine, picked a woman named Eklis Ahmed, who is a former employee of Gateway Community Services." "Gateway received many no-bid contracts from the Mills administration for the purposes of doing community health outreach work, which involved registering migrants to vote in the 2022 election." "So this is not just any run-of-the-mill organization that was fraudulently billing Medicaid, allegedly. It's one that was very, very well tied and connected to the Maine Democratic Party and remains tied to the Democratic Party." - Steve Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of the Maine Wire "It's not just a Somali Medicaid fraud, it's a Somali Democrat Medicaid fraud, because this is an organization with elaborate and extensive ties to the Maine Democratic Party, including Governor Janet Mills and her administration." This is seismic. It's not just Minnesota. It is everywhere."
MAGA Storm on X - "๐จ BREAKING: A MASSIVE new scam just blew open in Minnesota
Regular single-family homes are being rebranded as “assisted living facilities” to drain taxpayer money. And the numbers are insane. Here’s what investigators found ๐
• Assisted living programs in Minnesota are growing 2× faster than other state programs
• Payments are exploding at 10–15× the rate of everything else
• Shell companies are being used to set up many of these locations
• New “facilities” are popping up all over Minnesota cities
• A shocking number are tied to known money-laundering scammers
One of these places looks like an average house on a quiet street. But on paper, it bills itself as an assisted living facility. And it’s pulling in huge taxpayer dollars. Now look at these numbers ๐คฏ
• Minneapolis (pop. ~425,000): 169 facilities
• St. Paul (pop. ~307,000): 83 facilities
• Brooklyn Center (pop. ~30,000): 106 facilities
• Brooklyn Park (pop. ~84,000): 181 facilities
Yes… more than Minneapolis, a city FIVE TIMES larger.
And it gets worse. One of these “assisted living” operations is owned by a man indicted for laundering $1 MILLION in the Feeding Our Future scandal.
These facilities pulled in $2.3 MILLION in state money last year alone. According to Minnesota Reformer, that same individual has received $49 MILLION since 2016. This isn’t a coincidence. This isn’t mismanagement. This is a system being exploited on purpose. How much longer are taxpayers supposed to fund this? ๐"
RBe on X - "These "assisted living facilities" are just homes where an old person lives. They set up a company and say it's an assisted living home. And then other people claim to work there which makes them eligible for welfare to pay for daycare. But it's just people taking care of their own families. It's an entire ecosystem of welfare fraud."
Meme - "White House ballroom. news networks *shocked and alarmed*
Massive scale fraud. news networks *sleeping*"
‘Hundreds’ had ties to Feeding Our Future. Many will not face charges.
eigenrobot on X - "its not just that somalis are politically protected; a second issue is that crime committed en masse is difficult to prosecute in a state with any commitment to fair trials and so on. either way a civilized society doesnt survive this, really"
Brother Lunk on X - "This is one among many reasons libwonk journos looked like such morons (I repeat myself) denoooncing Bukele for rounding up the gangs en masse, as if extending full procedural due process to every single member of what is essentially a hostile enemy force operating with impunity in your country would’ve been remotely possible or desirable. The actual result of what they wanted would’ve been that the gangs simply adapted and continued operating, as they always had before. Lesson in that"
Mike Stauner #FireFickell on X - "CNN: "Hi this is CNN are you committing fraud?"
(Potentially) fraudulent daycare: "no, we are a legitimate business"
CNN: "see? That settles it! One of the 7 businesses we called told us over the phone they're not committing fraud!"
You really cannot make this shit up lmfao"
CNN - "Who gave this random YouTuber a license to go around and check for fraud?" : r/libsofreddit - "She said the quiet part out loud. Random YouTubers are the only ones it seems we have left to do what these “journalists” won’t."
"That’s why she is irritated by it. They are loose cannons since they aren’t “credentialed” journalists toeing the party line."
Plus, left wing logic is that if stopping fraud means that even 1 cent of money doesn't go to taking care of children, that's evil and shows you're a terrible person and a hypocrite who claims to care about children but doesn't (we saw this logic in all the rage about USAID too)
Cernovich on X - "Daycares, by law, are supposed to keep detailed paper trails. Sign in and sing out. Head counts. Would take half an hour to debunk Nick Shirley’s reporting. You’d show the paperwork to CBS or NPR and then the ring camera footage. Notice this hasn’t been done. For that reason." <
br>Andrew Follett on X - "Non-parents have NO IDEA the number of forms, cameras, and allergy lists going back decades that come with daycare. If @nickshirleyy was wrong, thered be a MOUNTAIN of paperwork proving it and NPR would publish it in 30 seconds. Instead, they're shoot
ing the messenger."
Dustin Grage on X - "Nobody has sued @nickshirleyy yet for the same reason Ilhan Omar hasn’t sued anyone over the claims she married her brother. Because discovery exists."
Nick shirley on X - "They can’t because they would then have to prove they are legit businesses and they are not. HHS froze all funding and gave all businesses the opportunity to receive their funding IF they can prove they are legit businesses NOT ONE business has submitted. If children needed to be fed and cared for how quickly would you submit proof to receive your funding? Immediately. If we all leared one thing from the video, it showed how a non-controversial topic like stopping fraud can be become controversial from the fraudsters and people who want to see America fail. I am now convinced the enemy really is within and they want America to fail."
The Associated Press on X - "The director of ABC Learning Center says the viral video alleging fraud by influencer Nick Shirley is part of a political campaign against Somali Minnesotans."
Daniel Friedman on X - "I see a guy who can barely speak English in a shabby facility babysitting a few kids. Even if you assume there are kids present every day and the Somali community hasn’t been bringing kids to show the media since this story broke, the millions in subsidies each of these facilities receives are unjustifiable and outrageous."
@amuse on X - "SOMALI FRAUD: Minnesota's licensed Somali daycare system is rife with fraud, but the state's biggest secret is the size and scope of the state's unlicensed daycare system. Somali families can earn $7,000 or more each month babysitting up to eight of their neighbor's children. While they are doing this their neighbor's can get paid by CCAP to babysit their children. While the state publishes data on licensed Somali daycare providers it keeps the unlicensed numbers secret. Why?"
Cam Higby ๐บ๐ธ on X - "๐จ Roughly 80% of all publicly disclosed Washington campaign donations made in 2025 by people with “childcare” listed as occupation went to Somali Port of Seattle Comissioner Hamdi Mohamed."
Ian Miller on X - "Scott Jennings: Tim Walz is calling efforts to investigate fraud “white supremacy”
CNN panel: *Explodes* “No he has not said that”
Video of Tim Walz saying efforts to investigate fraud are akin to white supremacy"
Breaking911 on X - "Tim Waltz calls fraud investigation” white supremacy”"
Melissa Chen on X - "They tried to claim the same thing when all the BLM fraud was revealed. Also remember when you started speaking up about Covid origins coming from the Wuhan lab, they accused you of blatant anti-Chinese racism and xenophobia? In the UK, it was racist to investigate or acknowledge the grooming gangs. It’s all part of the same playbook. That’s how you know all this woke nonsense is a ruse to make it impossible to scrutinize bad or illegal behavior from minorities while the white folks who serve the ideology get to hoard power for themselves"
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "The Minnesota Somali fraud has similar attributes to the Pakistani child rape gangs in the UK. They both could only occur on such a scale because there is an ethnic enclave that has strong internal loyalty and little sense of moral obligation about not exploiting the majority population. I could not go to a number of acquaintances and have them help run my fraudulent daycare or start another one with me. The risk that at least one of those involved or informed would alert the authorities would be far too high. But Somalis could always trust other Somalis not to turn them in, and plausibly also have an interest in participating in the fraud themselves. It is very risky to have such clannish sub-populations within your societies. If you insist on having these, you must also do the necessary work and be radically more vigilant."
Reddit Lies on X - "Virtually every headline mentioning the Minnesota Somali fraud has 0 upvotes on r/politics. Redditors are literally preventing eachother from seeing one of the largest fraud cases in US history. They're allergic to truth."
Minnesota Somali-run day care bizarrely says all their important documents about child care were stolen in mysterious break-in - "A Somali-run day care in Minneapolis is claiming somebody broke in and stole “important documents,” but cops say the facility didn’t report anything was actually taken. The alleged burglary comes as the national spotlight shines on the unfolding multibillion-dollar fraud scandal involving Minnesota human services, with particular scrutiny on day care facilities run by Somali immigrants after dozens of people from the community have been busted for pilfering state funds. Nasrulah Mohamed, manager of Nakomis Day Care Center, told reporters that a suspect entered through the kitchen at the rear of the facility, damaging a wall and breaking into the building’s office, sometime on Tuesday... At least $1 billion in fraud has been uncovered by authorities in Minneapolis so far, including fraudulent food, housing and child care payments, with warnings from the US Attorney’s Office that the true figure could be as high as $9 billion. Ninety-two people have been arrested in connection with the scheme, 80 of whom are Somali immigrants... the US Department of Health and Human Services announced it was freezing all child care payments to Minnesota — which totaled $185 million in 2025 alone — unless proof is provided that the payments are legitimate. In response, embattled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who has faced growing criticism for standing idly by as a billion dollars or more taxpayer funds disappeared to fraudsters on his watch, blamed the Trump administration in a social media post. “This is Trump’s long game”... “We’ve spent years cracking down on fraudsters. It’s a serious issue – but this has been his plan all along. He’s politicizing the issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans.” The Post visited several of the day cares Shirley spotlighted in his video, including Quality “Learing” Center, which was suspiciously bustling with children despite the state Department of children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) saying it had shuttered last week. DCYF later issued a puzzling correction that the “Learing” center had initially said it was closing, but later said it was staying open."
Apparently Trump instigated the fraud so he could defund programs that help those in Minnesota. How cunning.
I still see some left wingers claiming that most of the fraud is committed by white people, while others claim that it's a nothingburger and blaming right wingers for talking about it
Meme - "INSIDE JOB
How can someone breaking in from the outside be able to cut lower on the inside than the bricks that are on the outside?"
Mickey Kaus on X - "Minnesota Democrats won the "trifecta" in 2022 and basically enacted the entire Biden Dem agenda--family and medical leave, child tax credits, gun restrictions and lots more. @EJDionne was ecstatic. ("Momentous.) I made a mental note to come back in a few years and see if Minnesota was actually a better place to live due to this "avalanche of progressive legislation." I think we're beginning to get the answer ..."
Time to blame Trump and Republicans for the failure of the left wing agenda
Nate Silver on X - "Like seriously, Walz's statement is all about how mean Republicans are and says stuff like "we will fight back every step of the way", but then he announces he's quitting his re-election bid!"
Kostas Moros on X - "This is about a big a sign as you're going to get that Walz knows this fraud scandal is very real, and there's evidence his team knew about it for a while. Otherwise, he'd react with fury upon news of it breaking and stay in the race to clear his own name too. Instead, he meekly plays it down, then quits."
Collin Rugg on X - "JUST IN: Reporters audibly furious after Governor Tim Walz abruptly ends and bolts from his press conference after announcing he was dropping out of the 2026 race.
Reporter 1: "Are you s... wait what??"
Reporter 2: "Wow! Alright."
Reporter 3: "I thought you said you were going to take questions? Why didn't you?""
Nick Field on X - "A real showcase of how weak Democratic communications infrastructure is right now, as the party just watches their 2024 VP nominee and Governor of Minnesota get railroaded out of his race by a conservative media campaign"
Wesley Yang on X - "You see, allowing a multi-billion dollar fraud to go on for more than a decade with impunity is a “communications issue” if the media apparatus isn’t able to prevent the right from letting people know about it"
Henry Ballvings on X - "this is the same dumbass playbook that gave us Kamala and Joe in the first place: a complicit media that pretended those two weren't total turbostupid waterheaded imbeciles. Don't say it out loud, people might notice, and that's bad. Not the crime or the incompetence: saying it"
Audrey Fahlberg on X - "National Review's @jimgeraghty writing on Tim Walz on..July 29, 2024! "The dirty, not-so-little not-so-secret about Walz is that he’s not a good manager. On his watch, the Minnesota government has endured one embarrassing scandal after another entailing mismanagement, fraud, waste, and abuse.""
❤️๐ฅ Ember Paradox ❤️๐ฅ on X - "So…
>a YouTuber exposes MASSIVE levels of fraud and potential government corruption in regard to Somali-run daycare and medical care centers.
>there is desperate pushback from the Left AND the government that is full of abject lies along with complete gaslighting.
>Tim Walz himself makes the statement that investigating this very probable fraud would be akin to “white supremacy”.
>the glorious Internet Autists come out of nowhere and start absolutely dunking on Walz and all of the SJA activists teeing against claims of fraud while ALSO publicly admitting to fraud existing in press conferences and becoming horrified when they realized they’d just admitted it.
>Calling suspected fraudulent daycare center phone numbers reveals the calls are routed directly to the office of Governor Tim Walz.
>Tim Walz now claims he will no longer be seeking re-electing to “focus on work”, I.e desperately trying to put together his golden parachute while also scrambling for his escape hatch.
Yeah, you’re fooling NO ONE Tim. Gonna be a laugh riot when the @FBI comes knocking at your door."
Sadly, he's fooling credulous left wingers
Overton on X - "CNN was just forced to explain on air why Governor Tim Walz dropped out of the Minnesota governor’s race. And their viewers are not going to like what they heard...especially when they admitted: “This comes as pressure has been growing around this widening welfare fraud scandal.” This was the same story they tried to avoid covering at all costs. CNN: “Big breaking political news out of Minnesota.” “Governor Tim Walz, who, of course, was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2024, has ended his reelection bid for governor.” “He is not going to run for reelection.” “This comes as pressure has been growing around this widening welfare fraud scandal. Now, Walz has not been accused of any wrongdoing, but it has been a growing political headache.” “Over the holidays, it certainly did widen.” “There was a right wing influencer who posted a viral video on social media that quite literally went viral when the vice president of the United States and the FBI director leaned in on this.” “And it shined a spotlight on what had been some deep concerns among Minnesota Democrats, even about the wisdom of Governor Walz seeking a third term.” “They believe that this would hang over the entire reelection effort and perhaps even damage the Democratic Party.”"
Hans Mahncke on X - "“There was a right wing influencer who posted a viral video on social media that quite literally went viral when the vice president of the United States and the FBI director leaned in on this.” This is false. The video did not “go viral” because the Vice President or the FBI director leaned in. It went viral first, through massive grassroots sharing by tens of millions of people. Reversing that sequence is the media’s usual modus operandi. They invert reality and strip agency from the public, as if millions of viewers were merely passive props in some top-down orchestration by JD and Kash."
Tim Walz abruptly drops out of Minnesota governor's race as Somali fraud scandal gains momentum : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "Yeah thanks bud. I remember you preaching for us to fight fight fight like last week. Whatever."
Exclusive | Ilhan Omar's hubby's $30M firm quietly scrubs names from website — as 'Squad' member faces mounting questions on sudden wealth amid Minnesota welfare fraud - "Embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband’s venture capital firm quietly scrubbed key officer details — including former Obama officials — as scrutiny grows over the family’s skyrocketing wealth... Omar (D-Minn.) went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year — as a massive, up to $9 billion fraud scheme involving the Somali community in her district unfolded right under her nose in the North Star State. Close to 90 people have been charged so far, including at least three with direct ties to the lefty “Squad” member, though she has not been accused of wrongdoing. It was Somalia-born Omar — who was seen in a resurfaced video last month dishing out food in a restaurant now at the heart of the scandal — who introduced the legislation that critics say paved the way for what the feds have called the largest fraud of the pandemic. The Jimmy Choo-wearing socialist introduced the MEALS Act in Congress in 2020, relaxing oversight of government-sponsored children’s meal programs during the pandemic, which critics say allowed fraudsters to claim they served millions of meals without verification, while pocketing millions of dollars in government subsidies. Shortly after the scheme played out, Omar’s husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, launched Rose Lake Capital, a venture capital management firm, in 2022. The company saw its reported value go from nearly zero in 2023 to between $5 million and $25 million in just a year, and touted its officers’ $60 billion in “previous” assets under management — an amount many Wall Street money managers only dream of. “There’s a lot of strange things going on,” said Paul Kamenar, counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center. “She was basically broke when she came into office and now she’s worth perhaps up to $30 million … she needs to come clean on these assets.” Rose Lake Capital, which touts its “deep global networks built from on-the-ground work in more than 80 countries,” had less than $1,000 in assets in 2023, according to Omar’s financial disclosure. Yet despite the reported windfall, the business’s only address is a WeWork in DC, according to its LinkedIn page. Between September and October — when federal prosecutors announced charges against eight more individuals, including six of Somali descent, for their roles in the welfare scheme — the names and bios of Rose Lake Capital’s nine officers and advisers were removed from the website. None of them were charged in the fraud. These names include lobbyist and former Obama Ambassador to Bahrain Adam Ereli; former Senator and Obama Ambassador to China Max Baucus; DNC Finance Chair associate Alex Hoffman; former DNC treasurer William Derrough; and former ex-CEO of Amalgamated Bank Keith Mestrich, who once described Amalgamated as “the institutional bank of the Democratic Party.” Meanwhile, Mynett’s other business, a California winery that previously faced fraud allegations and was declared a failed venture in 2023, was suddenly worth between $1 million and $5 million in 2024 — a windfall of 9,900%. The fraud case involved a wine investor suing Mynett in October 2023, accusing him of swindling him out of $900,000 as he “fraudulently misrepresented … that estCru, LLC was a legitimate company.” Mynett claimed he simply struggled to build a business during the pandemic. The case settled out of court in November. The winery, eStCru, at some point around 2022 promoted a line of wines with names like “Blockchain” and “The Devil’s Lie,” with a prestigious California winemaker saying she abruptly stopped getting paid in early 2023. The business was only worth between $15,000 and $50,000 in Omar’s financial disclosure that year, making the sudden windfall the next year even more puzzling. It too is listed as operating out of a WeWork, and doesn’t appear to actually sell any wines anymore, according to extensive internet searches. Despite the high worth placed on the business, its website is a broken link, the phone number is disconnected and the last social media post for the winery dates back to 2023. “While working families were being ripped off by a massive welfare scam, Omar’s campaign took money from convicted fraudsters, her husband launched a firm that suddenly ballooned in value, and [Minnesota Gov.] Tim Walz looked the other way,” according to Kiersten Pels, spokesperson for the Republican National Committee. When she first took office in 2019, the left-wing “Squad” member declared a net worth between negative $25,000 and negative $65,000, claimed to own no assets and be only carrying student and car debt. Now Omar’s assets have suddenly skyrocketed to anywhere between $6 million and $30 million, according to her latest financial disclosure — just months after the congresswoman dismissed claims that she was a millionaire as “ridiculous” and “categorically false.”... Her campaign received $7,400 in direct donations from at least three now-convicted fraudsters, though the “Squad” member insisted she returned the donations after the scandal broke. She’s been closely linked to at least two individuals from Minnesota’s Somalian community who’ve been charged in the fraud. One is Salim Ahmed Said, the co-owner of Minneapolis’ Safari Restaurant, where Omar held her 2018 congressional victory party. Said was found guilty in August of stealing more than $12 million for serving 3.9 million “phantom” meals during the COVID-19 pandemic, blowing much of the money on a $2 million Minneapolis mansion and a $9,000-a-month shopping habit at Nordstrom, according to prosecutors... As the scam was underway in 2020, Omar even appeared on video at Safari Restaurant to praise the program. “Every day Safari provides 2,300 meals to children and their families,” she boasted in Somali in the video, while being filmed handling trays of food in a parking lot with her pandemic-era facemask pulled down below her nose. The other individual, Guhaad Hashi Said, worked on Omar’s campaign in 2018 and 2020, and pleaded guilty in August to running a fake food site called Advance Youth Athletic Development, where he falsely claimed to serve 5,000 meals a day and pocketed $3.2 million out of the food program."
The Other 98% | Facebook - "Tim Walz’s decision not to seek reelection hits like a gut punch for anyone who still believes decency should mean something in politics. The Minnesota governor, long respected for his integrity and steady leadership, is stepping away amid a storm of right wing accusations about fraud in state programs that never showed he personally stole a dime. But truth hardly matters anymore in a landscape where outrage is the currency and cruelty is the message.
His family has borne the worst of it. Walz and his daughter Hope have described people driving past their home screaming slurs, including the R word, after Donald Trump hurled it at him, and Hope says the death threats and harassment finally pushed her off social media for her own safety. His son Gus, who has a nonverbal learning disorder, has been dragged into the same ugly pile on, proof that the mob going after them is not just angry but deeply dehumanizing.
It is a rotten reflection of what America’s politics has become: a good man hounded by bullies who thrive on chaos and cruelty, while the rest of us are supposed to pretend this is normal. Walz has been floated as a possible 2028 presidential contender, and if he does jump into that race, I’d say he looks a hell of a lot better than what we have now."
So much cope, including in the comments
Takeaways from the House Oversight hearing on Minnesota fraud allegations - "Wednesday’s hearing featured ardent testimony from three Republican members of the Minnesota House of Representatives who, the chairman of the Oversight Committee says, “sounded the alarm” on the fraud years ago: Kristin Robbins, Walter Hudson and Marion Rarick. Hudson testified he had no doubt “whatsoever” that Democratic Gov. Tim Walz knew about the fraud as it occurred. Robbins, who chairs her state’s fraud prevention committee, said credible reports of child care fraud started surfacing in 2011, and Walz knew about it “from the very beginning.” “The Tim Walz administration has utterly failed to protect Minnesota taxpayers and vulnerable citizens, ignoring years of credible reports,” Robbins said in her opening statement. Walz was sworn in as governor in 2019. Hudson said he believed Walz ignored concerns of fraud in part because Somali Americans were a significant piece of the Democratic voting base in Minnesota. “A culture suppressing raising those concerns was fostered by the Walz administration,” he said. Rarick said if Walz was serious about addressing fraud, he would have done so when he first took office... “Tim Walz and the Democrats have repeatedly protected their political base at the expense of all Minnesotans,” Robbins said. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, while questioning witness and former federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou, asked whether the Biden administration covered up the fraud in Minnesota for political reasons... Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio called the racism allegations a “template.” “You see this all the time,” the congressman said. “The left will tell the lie, the media will report the lie or not report when the truth comes out, and then when you tell the truth, they call you a racist.”... Many Democratic members raised similar concerns of xenophobia and racism throughout the hearing, with one member calling the hearing itself, by its nature, racist... Democratic Rep. Summer Lee and Comer also engaged in a heated spar after Lee accused Republicans of “cherry-picking” a Democratic-led state and making efforts to “demonize” the vulnerable Somali community over fraud that is also happening in other states."
Whataboutism is only wrong when it hurts the left wing agenda
"You should not investigate fraud when there is plenty of evidence of it but should look for fraud elsewhere instead, especially if the fraud is by a politically-favored group". Amazing logic.
Meme - AG @AGHamilton29: "If you want to read the details of this particular defendant’s case… She stole $5.7 million. The Minnesota government gave her an award."
AG @AGHamilton29: "If you want to understand how bad the fraud was in Minnesota, here is a picture of Tim Walz giving an award to one of the convicted Feeding Our Future fraudsters for her fraudulent businesses."
"Congratulations to our founder Ayan Abukar! Ayan received the
Outstanding Refugee Award from the Minnesota Department of
Human Services for her contributions to our state in entrepreneurship."
Meme - "Walter Curt @wcdispatch This is the listed location of the auditing firm that performed the audits for both the Minnesota and Ohio on the NGOs we have linked to potential fraud. You cannot make this stuff up."
"Jubba Value Center *convenience store*"
