You can take the Somalis out of Somalia …
… but way too many of them bring Somali corruption with them. In Minnesota, it reached terrible proportions, and we’re still finding out its extent:
Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.
In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab. As one confidential source put it: “The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.”
Incredibly depressing news – although it’s not really all that new as news, since we’ve been hearing about it piece by piece for quite some time (I’ve written about one of these cases previously, for example here and here).
More:
If you were to design a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would probably look a lot like Minnesota’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program. The HSS program, the first of its kind in the country, was launched with a noble goal: to help seniors, addicts, the disabled, and the mentally ill secure housing. It was designed with “low barriers to entry” and “minimal requirements for reimbursement.” Nonetheless, before the program went live in 2020, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at $2.6 million.
Costs quickly spiraled out of control. In 2021, the program paid out more than $21 million in claims. In the following years, annual costs shot up to $42 million, then $74 million, then $104 million. During the first six months of 2025, payouts totaled $61 million.
On August 1, Minnesota’s Department of Human Services moved to scrap the HSS program, noting that payment to 77 housing-stabilization providers had been terminated this year due to “credible allegations of fraud.” Joe Thompson, then the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, went even further, stating that the “vast majority” of the HSS program was fraudulent.
That is what happens when naive virtue-signalers set up such a program. It becomes overrun by fraud, especially when dealing with people with a third-world mentality who consider the bureaucrats easy marks – which they indeed are. The simple truth is that all people bring their culture with them, and they either reject it or continue it when they get here. There are so many Somalis concentrated in Minnesota that apparently assimilation is not all that common. The result is rampant fraud.
And when I say “rampant,” that’s exactly what I mean. This fraud was very organized and sophisticated. Too bad all that energy wasn’t challenged into something more constructive – although it was very constructive indeed for the fraudsters:
“Most of these cases, unlike a lot of Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud cases nationally, aren’t just overbilling,” Thompson said at a press conference announcing the indictments. “These are often just purely fictitious companies solely created to defraud the system, and that’s unique in the extent to which we have that here in Minnesota.”
Thompson said many firms enrolled in the program “operated out of dilapidated storefronts or rundown office buildings.” The perpetrators often targeted people recently released from rehab, signing them up for Medicaid services they had no intention of providing. He noted many owners of companies engaged in HSS fraud had “other companies through which they billed other Medicaid programs, such as the EIDBI autism program, the . . . Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services program, the . . . Integrated Community Support program, the Community Access for Disability Inclusion . . . program, PCA services, and other Medicaid-waivered services.”
“What we see are schemes stacked upon schemes, draining resources meant for those in need. It feels never ending,” Thompson said. “I have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor and the depth of the fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away.”
Another fraudulent scheme involved autism claims:
… [O]n September 24, U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson announced his office’s first indictment in yet another fraud case. This time, the scheme involved federally funded autism services for children.
The accused is a woman named Asha Farhan Hassan, a member of Minnesota’s Somali community, who has also been charged in the Feeding Our Future scam. She’s alleged to have played a role in a $14 million fraud scheme perpetrated against Minnesota’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program.
Hassan and her co-conspirators “approached parents in the Somali community” and recruited their children into autism therapy services. It didn’t matter, prosecutors suggested, if a child did not have an autism diagnosis: Hassan would facilitate a fraudulent one.
It involved much of the Somali community, because the parents got kickbacks. And get this:
Often, parents threatened to leave . . . and take their children to other autism centers if they did not get paid higher kickbacks.
Nice. As one might imagine, autism claims in Minnesota went through the roof. Hey, maybe it’s even responsible for the supposed rise in autism rates in general – it’s certainly responsible for the increase in Minnesota. This is the sort of increase we’re talking about:
… [A]utism claims to Medicaid in Minnesota have skyrocketed in recent years—from $3 million in 2018 to $54 million in 2019, $77 million in 2020, $183 million 2021, $279 million in 2022, and $399 million in 2023. Meantime, the number of autism providers in the state spiked from 41 to 328 over the same period, with many in the Somali community establishing their own autism treatment centers, citing the need for “culturally appropriate programming.” By the time the fraud scheme was exposed, one in 16 Somali four-year-olds in the state had reportedly been diagnosed with autism—a rate more than triple the state average.
Did no one notice? Or was it too unwoke to notice? This guy is noticing, and he’s Somali:
Kayesh Magan, a Somali-American who had worked as a fraud investigator at the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office and declined an interview request, identified the problem last year: “We must grapple with something that is uncomfortable and true: Nearly all of the defendants in the cases I’ve listed are from my community. The Somali community.”
If you follow the money, what do you find? It leads back to Somalia:
Our investigation reveals, for the first time, that some of this money has been directed to an even more troubling destination: the al-Qaida-linked Islamic terror group Al-Shabaab. According to multiple law-enforcement sources, Minnesota’s Somali community has sent untold millions through a network of “hawalas,” informal clan-based money-traders, that have wound up in the coffers of Al-Shabaab.
According to Glenn Kerns, a retired Seattle Police Department detective who spent 14 years on a federal Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), the Somalis ran a sophisticated money network, spanning from Seattle to Minneapolis, and were routing significant amounts of cash on commercial flights from the Seattle airport to the hawala networks in Somalia. One of these networks, Kerns discovered, sent $20 million abroad in a single year. “The amount of money was staggering,” Kerns said. …
“Every scrap of economic activity, in the Twin Cities, in America, throughout Western Europe, anywhere Somalis are concentrated, every cent that is sent back to Somalia benefits Al-Shabaab in some way,” the former official said. “For every dollar that is transferred from the Twin Cities back to Somalia, Al-Shabaab is . . . taking a cut of it.”
I have quoted liberally from the article because the whole picture is staggering.
Somalis have what’s called “temporary protected status” in the US, but there’s little about it that’s temporary. In fact, Somalis have had that status since a 1991 civil war broke out in Somalia. Not all Somalis are here under that program – in fact, the majority are not – but Trump would like to end it, which seems extremely reasonable, and has declared it over.
Here’s how CBS treats the news:
[Trump] also accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, without proof, of overseeing a state that had become a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity.”
Without proof? There’s a ton of proof, but CBS assumes its readers are unaware of that.
Surprised you didn’t mention the guilty verdict for $7.2 million in fraud that the Judge decided to toss out saying the verdict was reached on pure hearsay evidence. The jury thought the evidence was sufficient.
Minnesota, like the ancestral Scandinavian countries of many Minnesotans, was once a high-trust society. In Minnesota, that trust has been exploited by immigrants from both Somalia and Chicago. In Scandinavia, the immigrants are mostly Muslims from the Middle East and Africa.
In both Minnesota and Scandinavia, the immigrants come from low-trust tribal societies. They’ve brought a plague of crime and corruption, and they’ll eventually destroy the societies they at first exploit. Denmark has started to send asylum-seekers back home, but rebuilding a high-trust society is almost impossible. As the saying goes, you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. The economy crashes, the schools collapse, the funding for corruption becomes scarce, and the parasites look for a new host.
Eventually, everybody ends up homeless, on the streets in LA, voting for Gavin Newsom, again and again, with absentee ballots.
It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and I’m coming down from the tryptophan.
Lake Woebegone has a Somali imann now, yah sure you betcha.
Uffdah is white supremacy code.
You don’t get assimilation when you settle so many “refugees” in the same cities and states. That creates ghettoes where the foreign culture carries on. And if it’s a culture of corruption, which the Somali culture is, fraud and worse happens.
I am a great believer in freedom of religion. A person’s relationship with God should be whatever that person thinks is best. However, I also believe that religion and politics should be separate. Render unto Caesar etc. Unfortunately, Islam in its worst form is a political belief in the supremacy of Islam – an aggressive hate-filled mix.
So, Muslims must be very carefully screened and kept out if they show any allegiance to Islamism.
I applaud Trump for wanting to rationalize our immigration system after the flood gates were opened by Biden and Co. It will take time and patience. There may be as many as ten million illegals that should be deported. Not going to happen overnight.
And the Dems will fight him every step of the way.
So the leftwing media have shifted the goalposts from “without evidence” to “without proof,” which is tacit admission that there is lots of evidence. It’s pretty much the norm that accusations are made without proof. Indictments only require evidence; proof is established at trials.
In re Somalian crime stats: miguel linked to this post by El Gato Malo on a prior thread, but I’m putting it up again for the sections relevant to this post.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/backing-up-the-shark-truck
Followed by the screencap of a tweet from Denmark, and the chart showing how Somalian immigrants are run-away champions of criminal acts, in a very crowded field.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8ktd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82ebbd64-9283-4c13-80b7-6ef567bcb012_762x1412.png
He reaches an ominous conclusion, which has been echoed on numerous blogs I’ve read, and may be reaching a critical ignition point.
When I was an undergraduate engineering student, one of the grad students in the department was from Somalia. He wrote an interesting article for the campus paper about growing up in Somalia. I recall that a teacher who was a Peace Corps volunteer was a positive influence. I complimented him in the lounge on the article.
But he apparently disappeared from the scene. The article in the campus paper was supposed to be the first of several, but it was the only one. The next semester, overwhelmed by the workload of Senior lab, I lost touch with students not in our cohort, so I didn’t inquire about him at the time. That Senior Lab semester was also my last semester.
In recently checking online , I found out that he did not get a Master’s degree, as his name didn’t appear in any subsequent commencement documents. Ditto that he wrote only one article for the campus paper. I wonder what happened to him.
I wonder if any enterprising journalist has asked the Somali Congress critter from Minneapolis what she thinks of the rampant corruption in the Somali community.
What many forget about the “democratically elected” Allende was that he was a minority President who governed as if he had a majority. He knew he did not have majority support, so he resorted to fait accompli and legal flim-flam to achieve the hundreds of nationalizations that took place. Which is why, three weeks before the coup, the Chamber of Deputies passed a resolution by a 81-47 vote (63%) that essentially asked for a coup.
Corruption is daily life in many parts of the world, OK probably most of none 1st world countries.
I would advocate fraud potential was baked into the system, 1 to even the playing field as Marxists want to do. And 2nd the bureaucracy is grown to dish out that fraud. It just doesn’t get handed out by machines.
America may think so, but it’s not the Mary Tyler Moore show.
“there is purpose to this. folks like soros and soros junior with his new terrifying alignment to the clinton clan and the other davosian plotters are seeking to use the once successful immigration policies of the west as a trojan horse to demolish it and tear its institutions to pieces.”
Can anyone explain this to me? WHY would Soros, or Soros-like people want this? Why would they want to demolish the west and tear its institutions to pieces? What do they get out of that? Is it honestly to make everyone (except themselves) equal? Is it really because they want more “justice”? They think “society” is to blame so they have to tear down that society (and replace it with WHAT?).
There has to be a reason.
The combination of imported foreign criminals and domestic quislings is fatal. America as we knew it is dead; many of us just haven’t noticed it yet.
gwynmir,
One possible answer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYkhb2NjfE
I’l take “What is One World Government?” for $500, Alex.
Physicsguy: One possible answer: (Some men just like watching the world burn.)
I don’t think it’s “the world” to them; it’s “your world.” For many past a certain level of wealth (300 million, perhaps), their world is well-separated from and very distinct from the world everyone else lives in. If your world burns, they won’t get even a whiff of smoke.
gwynmir:
Perhaps I’ll tackle your question in a post sometime next week.
Neo, I would so much appreciate that. It’s a question that has baffled me for a long time. I understand idealistic young people (and even some older ones who never grew up, like some of my fellow boomers), but I fail to see how “tearing down western civilization” helps the majority of people.
And I also never hear what they want to replace it with. Some form of socialism, done the “right way”? Totalitarianism because they’re power-hungry? I have read a lot about Soros over the years trying to understand, but I certainly can’t see him (or his son) running the show from some perch.
This type of attack–the same targets, and same the attacker or attackers–is reported in the news so often these days that it’s just commonplace, and it shouldn’t be.*
* See https://nypost.com/2025/11/27/us-news/wtc-worker-who-escaped-9-11-beaten-to-death-by-three-teens-cops/
gwynmir,
In the Obama years I heard the theory he had taken a similar short position on the U.S. dollar and was trying to profit off the same technique, here.
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