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Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« on: December 14, 2025, 07:15:32 am »

Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
Story by Andrew Mark Miller, Nikolas Lanum • 23h

Former federal prosecutor who worked on Minneapolis fraud sounds off on what went wrong

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.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/inside-minnesota-s-1b-fraud-fake-offices-phony-firms-and-a-scandal-hiding-in-plain-sight/ar-AA1ShyTk?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=dad61af891324f79ff7ba8368676053a&ei=67
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Re: Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2025, 07:17:56 am »
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Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
 

Not if you are wearing liberal bleeding-heart blinders. **nononono*
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Re: Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2025, 07:32:46 am »
More Allegations Surface in Minnesota Fraud Probe
 
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are investigating alleged fraud in a COVID-era food-aid program under Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. The investigation is also looking into the possible diversion of federal funds to extremist groups. The Feeding Our Future case has led to multiple convictions and federal scrutiny of Minnesota’s state-funded nonprofit reimbursements.
 
Comer said the committee “will conduct a thorough investigation into Governor Walz’s failure to safeguard taxpayer dollars.”

The Minnesota Legislative Auditor found the Department of Education allegedly allowed fraud and lacked oversight in program payments. The FBI raided the nonprofit, which later dissolved. Republican committee members noted Comer may subpoena records and refer potential crimes for prosecution. A whistleblower, claiming to represent Department of Human Services staff, alleged that employees had raised early concerns and faced retaliation.

The whistleblower claimed, “We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/more-allegations-surface-in-minnesota-fraud-probe/ar-AA1ShGru?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=2631312f07a9444dc797c9149407f1ed&ei=21
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Re: Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2025, 07:34:22 am »
Gee, it's too bad Walz isn't the VP of America. *****rollingeyes*****
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Re: Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2025, 10:34:27 am »
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Re: Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2025, 01:25:58 pm »
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Re: Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2025, 01:29:32 pm »
Phillip C Parrish
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Dear Minnesotans,

Wake up to the rot eating our state alive. Senator Kennedy just gutted the DFL syndicate on the Senate floor, reading their own damning memo from the Minnesota AG’s office—Keith Ellison’s lair. They admitted it straight up: they let the Somali fraud rings run wild, stealing billions in taxpayer cash meant for kids and COVID relief, because cracking down would piss off their “core voting block.” Votes over justice? That’s not governance; that’s racketeering with a ballot box.

At the rotten core: weak, lazy thieves—grifters so morally bankrupt they’d sell their souls for a stolen dollar. Layer one: opportunist white-collar crooks and compromised pols like Walz and Ellison, who retaliated against whistleblowers and buried investigations to protect their power. Layer two: the propagandist hacks peddling fear, coercion, and racism smears to shut down anyone sniffing too close. Layer three: the naive do-gooders virtue-signaling their way to oblivion, throwing our money at “solutions” while turning a blind eye to the looting. And layer four? You—the hardworking Minnesotans getting robbed blind, our communities ravaged, families destroyed by the puppet masters and their street-level minions.

This isn’t just fraud; it’s a full-on criminal enterprise rigging elections, laundering cash to terrorists (yeah, reports link some of that stolen dough to Somali terror groups), and laughing while Minnesota burns. How’s that for “Minnesota Nice”?

Matthew 3:10—John the Baptist thundered: “The axe is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

Time to swing that axe, folks. As your fraud whistleblower and 2026 gubernatorial candidate, I’ll dismantle this syndicate root and branch. Join the fight at https://parrish4mn.com.
Phillip C. Parrish
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Fraud Whistleblower, Navy Vet, Farmer, Father, Follower of Christ

8:04 AM · Dec 15, 2025  ·  1,067 Views

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Re: Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2025, 02:29:23 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on December 14, 2025, 07:17:56 am
Not if you are wearing liberal bleeding-heart blinders. **nononono*

Fear of being perceived as a racist is what kept people in line from speaking out about this sooner

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Re: Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2025, 05:00:12 pm »
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Re: Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2025, 05:00:51 pm »
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Re: Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2025, 06:03:24 am »
Minnesota's Social Services Fraud Scandal Gets Even Worse - New Charges Filed as Scope Widens
 
Six people were charged this week in the federal investigation of fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs.

“Every day we look under a rock and find a new $50 million fraud scheme,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson said, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
 
“The magnitude of the fraud in Minnesota cannot be overstated. Staggering amounts of money have been lost,” he said.

Fourteen programs have been under scrutiny, many involving the Somali immigrant community in the state.

The amount of fraud that has taken place is “the $18-billion question,” Thompson said. “The answer is far too much.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/minnesota-s-social-services-fraud-scandal-gets-even-worse-new-charges-filed-as-scope-widens/ar-AA1SHhwj?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=69467c75fa8b42ddbd41cc4420bcb149&ei=56
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Re: Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2025, 06:04:30 am »
It appears tax dollar fraud has become the democrats' new form of DEI. :pondering:
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Re: Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2025, 09:01:58 am »
Miller: We Shouldn’t Be Shocked by Minnesota Fraud Allegations — Somalia’s ‘Primary Occupation’ Is Pirate

During Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller weighed in on allegations of Somali immigrant social services fraud centered in Minnesota.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/12/20/miller-we-shouldnt-be-shocked-by-minnesota-fraud-allegations-somalias-primary-occupation-is-pirate/
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Re: Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2025, 10:40:38 am »
New number stolen, according to Steven Miller, is $8 billion.
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Re: Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight
« Reply #14 on: December 21, 2025, 06:50:16 am »
 
Media 'complicity' blamed as feds say Minnesota fraud crisis could reach $9B: 'Shown their true colors'
Story by Andrew Mark Miller • 33m

Stephen Miller: Magnitude of alleged Somali fraud eclipses anyone’s ‘worst nightmare’

Minnesota’s sprawling fraud crisis has garnered national headlines in recent weeks, but several critics say the problem festered for years, aided by local media that appeared uninterested in holding people in power accountable.

"In newsrooms, they’re told, ‘We can’t run that because we’re going to be accused of being racist,’" Townhall columnist Dustin Grage recently told Fox News Digital about news outlets in Minnesota essentially enabling the fraud by not calling out shocking taxpayer waste occurring primarily within the local Somali community.
 
The outlet that is considered by many the top news source in the region, the Minnesota Star Tribune, has faced criticism on social media in recent days over some of its headlines, including "Minnesota Somali community grapples with fraud cases while pushing back against stereotypes" on Nov. 26 and "Trump claims Minnesota lost billions to fraud. The evidence to date isn’t close" on Dec. 11.

On Thursday, federal prosecutors held a press conference where they revealed that the true scope of the fraud scandal could end up costing taxpayers around $9 billion, prompting some conservatives on social media to point out the Dec. 11 headline.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/media-complicity-blamed-as-feds-say-minnesota-fraud-crisis-could-reach-9b-shown-their-true-colors/ar-AA1SLsAE?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6947dccd1b6e49d2a203e833dc5ed6f5&ei=46
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