Somali Community Welfare Fraud Schemes in Minnesota
Extensive welfare fraud schemes in Minnesota have reportedly siphoned billions of taxpayer dollars, primarily orchestrated by members of the Somali immigrant community. The "Feeding Our Future" case involved fake non-profits submitting bogus meal claims during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the theft of over $250 million. Federal prosecutors describe the operation as the largest pandemic-related fraud in the United States.
minnesota· somali community· feeding our future· welfare fraud· child nutrition funds
00:00 Brooklyn should hear it. The Bronx should hear it. Queens should hear it. Say it as if the Ummah depends on this, my brothers and sisters. Is it acceptable to marry my cousin? If you want to marry her, go ahead. Yo, bro, we marry cousins all the time. People have been marrying cousins for millions of years, bro. And yes, the chances of a birth defect might be increased, but it's not to the level where Allah knows us. Allah knows best. Islam didn't come to be accommodated into a secular world. Rather, Islam came to establish itself and accommodate all other people within the fold of Islam as Muslims or Ahlul Imamah.
00:46 priority for them is for Muslims to be accepted in the West so we can go about our lives in a secular liberal world allowing us to live as a bubble within this society so that we can pray, we can fast and we can do what we want. But this is not what Islam came for. Islam didn't come for us to be accommodated in a non-Muslim world. Islam came to accommodate the world in Islam. Islam didn't come to be reformed. Islam came to reform us. Somalis are not terrorizing this nation. We are helping it thrive. Somalis have always seen themselves as a fabric of this nation. As many of you know, Minnesota is drowning in fraud. In Minnesota, a state with the largest Somali immigrant population in the United States, extensive welfare fraud schemes,
01:44 have siphoned billions of taxpayer dollars from federal and state programs primarily orchestrated by members of the Somali community. The most notorious case, Feeding Our Future, involved fake non-profits submitting bogus meal claims during the COVID-19 pandemic, defrauding over $250 million in child nutrition funds. The brazen scheme of staggering proportions. The largest pandemic fraud in the United States. The subjects in this case weren't interested in feeding our future. They were interested in feeding their own gluttony. We have new details on a jury tampering scheme at the center of a major fraud case. Federal prosecutors indicted five people for their roles in offering a juror $120,000 for a not guilty verdict in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. The U.S. attorney says the group targeted Juror 52 because she was the youngest juror and appeared to be the only juror of color.
