Minnesota’s Billion Dollar Welfare Fraud

Minnesota built a “high-trust” Scandinavian-style welfare state. Over the last five years prosecutors say that at least three huge fraud schemes looted more than a billion dollars from those programs, with most of the defendants coming from Minnesota’s Somali diaspora and from networks tied into COVID relief. Federal cases around Feeding Our Future, Housing Stabilization Services, and autism therapy (EIDBI) now stretch into the dozens of defendants and hundreds of millions in stolen funds.

In this live stream we walk through how these scams actually worked, why state agencies backed off enforcement when they were accused of “racism,” and what the Legislative Auditor and federal prosecutors now admit about Tim Walz’s oversight failures. We will look at how a trust-based system, COVID flexibilities, and George Floyd-era politics combined to let fake nonprofits, shell “housing providers,” and autism mills bill the system with almost no real checks.

Then we connect it to Washington. Trump is now using the Minnesota scandal to justify ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalis in Minnesota, while the New York Times and other outlets frame this as a tragic clash between a generous welfare state, a vulnerable immigrant community, and a few opportunistic criminals. We will separate what is actually proven in court from what is speculative about money sent abroad and the Al Shabab claims, so you can see where the facts end and the narrative begins.

Topics tonight:
• How Feeding Our Future blew up from $3.4M to hundreds of millions and why the state kept paying after red flags and lawsuits.

• Why Housing Stabilization spending exploded and why Walz’s team asked to shut the program down instead of fixing it.

• The autism therapy fraud cases, kickbacks to parents, and the damage to families with real needs.

• The role of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora, internal whistleblowers, and how coalition politics helped shield the fraud.

• Trump’s TPS decision, media spin, and what an America First Christian response to immigration and welfare stewardship should look like.

Join live, hit the chat, and bring your questions. The replay will stay up with timestamps so you can jump straight to the segments on Feeding Our Future, housing fraud, or Trump’s TPS move.

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