Minnesota taxpayer money, Millions of dollars in taxpayer money stolen as part of a series of massive Minnesota welfare fraud schemes may have been funneled to Somalia-based terror group Al-Shabaab, according to a report.
MINNESOTA TAXPAYER MONEY: THE BENEFICIARIES MONEY STOLEN
Minnesota taxpayer money, the radical Islamic terror group, which is a longstanding ally of al Qaeda and considered a threat to US interests, has likely been the beneficiary of money stolen in a spate of scams and sent to Somalia by the criminals defrauding the North Star State, City Journal reported on Wednesday, citing federal counterterrorism sources.
“This is a third-rail conversation, but the largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer,” a source who worked on a federal investigation into Minnesotans attempting to join overseas terror groups, told the outlet.
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Minnesota taxpayer money, in recent months, the Minnesota US Attorney’s Office has uncovered multi-million dollar fraud schemes targeting the state’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program and a federally funded autism services for children program.
MULTIMILLION DOLLAR FRAUD SCHEME
Minnesota taxpayer money, the state’s top prosecutor believes “billions of dollars in taxpayer money” has been stolen as a result of fraud.
“To be clear, this is not an isolated scheme,” acting US Attorney Joseph Thompson said in September, when announcing the first charges in the autism fraud scheme. “From Feeding Our Future to Housing Stabilization Services and now Autism Services, these massive fraud schemes form a web that has stolen billions of dollars in taxpayer money.
Former fraud investigator Kayesh Magan, a Somali-American who had worked in the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, noted in an op-ed last year that it is “uncomfortable and true” that “nearly all of the defendants” in several Minnesota fraud cases, including Feeding Our Future, “are from my community. The Somali community.”
Minnesota taxpayer money, David Gaither, a former Republican Minnesota state senator, believes state Democrats and the media have ignored fraud being perpetrated by members of the state’s large and politically influential Somali community, which has made the problem worse.
