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   https://foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-world/federal-investigators-warn-   
   minnesota-welfare-fraud-may-have-helped-fund-al-shabaab-housing-   
   assistance-fraud-social-service   
      
   WASHINGTON (TNND) — Federal prosecutors say Minnesota is facing one of the   
   largest welfare-fraud waves in U.S. history—schemes so widespread and   
   lucrative that some of the stolen money may have ended up in the hands of   
   Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organization operating in   
   Somalia.   
      
   According to a recent report in City Journal, former federal   
   counterterrorism officials believe portions of the money stolen from   
   Minnesota’s Medicaid and social-service programs were routed overseas   
   through informal cash-transfer networks known as hawalas. Once the funds   
   reached Somalia, investigators say, Al-Shabaab routinely took a   
   share—regardless of the sender’s intentions.   
      
   The allegation, described by one former investigator as a “yes,   
   absolutely” scenario, adds a national-security dimension to a widening   
   series of criminal cases already rattling the state.   
      
   The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota has charged dozens of defendants   
   across multiple schemes, including housing-assistance fraud, pandemic   
   child-nutrition fraud, and millions of dollars in false billing for autism   
   therapy. Collectively, prosecutors estimate taxpayers have lost billions.   
      
   David Gaither, a former Minnesota state senator, said the scale of fraud   
   has diverted resources away from vulnerable people, the programs were   
   designed to help. “There are people that legitimately need those resources   
   who are not getting them,” he said. “It’s beyond criminal.”   
      
   Minnesota is home to one of the largest Somali-American populations in the   
   United States, and many of the defendants in the major fraud cases come   
   from that community. Kayesh Magan, a former fraud investigator at the   
   Minnesota Attorney General’s Office and himself Somali-American, wrote   
   last year that it is “uncomfortable and true” that nearly all defendants   
   in the high-profile cases are Somali.   
      
   “They have taken advantage of one of the most generous countries in the   
   world and one of the most generous states in that country,” Gaither said.   
      
   Ryan Thorpe, an investigative reporter who has examined the fraud cases,   
   said law enforcement alone cannot keep up. “Pretty much across the board,   
   people I spoke to said there isn’t a law-enforcement solution to this,”   
   Thorpe said. “It’s simply playing whack-a-mole. There needs to be a policy   
   change.”   
      
   Critics claim state leaders have been slow to fully address the problem,   
   worried that aggressive action could alienate Minnesota’s politically   
   influential Somali-American voting bloc.   
      
   With multiple federal prosecutions still ongoing, investigators say the   
   true scale of Minnesota’s fraud problem—and the amount of money that may   
   have flowed to Al-Shabaab—may not yet be known.   
      
      
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