Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
Fox News Digital visited several locations tied to the Minnesota fraud scandal
By Andrew Mark Miller , Nikolas Lanum Fox News
Published December 13, 2025 8:00am EST
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – As a massive fraud scheme costing state and federal taxpayers at least $1 billion dollars continues to unfold in Minnesota, Fox News Digital visited several locations that received funding through programs like Feeding Our Future and found several inconsistencies exposing the depth of the scandal.
The now-infamous Griggs-Midway Building housed an "unusual concentration" of fraudulent entities involved in the HSS scheme, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson.
Twenty-two "businesses" connected to the HSS program were registered to this single location. Thompson described these entities as "purely fictitious companies solely created to defraud the system."
These 22 fraudulent businesses collectively billed Medicaid for a staggering $8 million between January 2024 and May 2025.
An in-person investigation by Fox News Digital of the building, located in St. Paul, Minnesota, showed huge swaths of the southern side of the building completely abandoned. A black and white banner advertising open spaces in the building was adorned atop the "Griggs-Midway Building" sign.
Several men sat together and engaged in conversation at the building entrance. When approached, the men told Fox News Digital that they did not speak English.
However, the western side of the building housed a number of seemingly legitimate businesses on the first floor, including a hair salon, a financial support and loan service for African immigrants and a property management office.
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