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FROM JEFF CHILDERS….THIS ONE IS MINDBLOWING ….SOME UNBELIEVABLE BUT VERIFIED FACTS REGARDING THE CORRUPTION / FRAUD INDUSTRY IN MINNESOTA CENTERED AROUND THE SOMALI “COMMUNITY” INCLUDING WHAT HAS BEEN CALLED THE FRAUD TOURIST INDUSTRY..THIS NEEDS TO BE PASSED ON TO EVERYONE
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“The magnitude cannot be overstated,” Thompson told reporters. “What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It’s staggering, industrial-scale fraud.”
“Minnesota has become a magnet for fraud,” US Attorney Joe Thompson told reporters, “so much so that we have developed a fraud tourism industry – people coming to our state purely to exploit and defraud its programs.” Thompson soberly added, “This is a deeply unsettling reality that all Minnesotans should understand.”
Fraud tourists! It’s a new category of luxury travel, invented by progressives.
Hilariously, just ten days ago, the Minnesota Star Tribune ran a “no evidence” headline that aged very, very badly:
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JEFF CONCLUDES WITH…”THE RECONNING IS COMING JUST WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR”
AND HERE’S THE THING…FIRST COMES THE REVELATION…AND IT MUST BE BROUGHT INTO THE ZEITGEIST BY PEOPLE LIKE US. BECAUSE THE MSM IS STILL THE MSM AND THE MIDDLE WHO ABSORB THE MSM BY OSMOSIS DO NOT SEEK OUT THE INFORMATION WE DO… THEY HAVE TO HEAR THIS AND SEE WHAT THIS FRAUD HAS DONE TO THEM…IT’S ALL HERE…SPELLED OUT IN THIS POST…PASS IT ON AND ON AND ON
THEN WHEN CRITICAL MASS IS REACHED …THE MIDDLE WILL CLAMOR FOR THE RECONNING
STOP BITCHING AND MOANING ABOUT “ZERO ARRESTS” AND START MAKING IT HAPPEN WITH DISCOURSE AND ACTION IN YOUR CIRCLE…THE ONLY PLACE YOU CAN AFFECT
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This week, the Wall Street Journal ran an astonishing op-ed titled simply, “The Biggest Fraud in Welfare.” This kind of analysis is the inevitable fallout from the recent welfare scandals in Minnesota, California, and every other blue state in the country, which are showing the kinds of money management skills usually attributed to chronic Powerball players and people who describe weekend Las Vegas trips as “investments.”
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“Something is profoundly wrong with the U.S. welfare system,” the authors wrote, probably understating the problem, “one far deeper and more dangerous than the shocking fraud in Minnesota that has been making headlines.”
Annual federal welfare spending now accounts for an eye-watering $1.4 trillion. That’s about a third of the overall budget; the actual problem is even worse. The authors pointed out that, with that kind of money, you could just cut out the middlemen and send all 19.8 million “poor” Americans $70,000 each, every single year.
It would be even more shocking if you used a more realistic figure. “If the government simply gave every poor family in America enough money to raise its income above the official poverty level,” the article explained, “it would cost only $240 billion. That would reduce the annual deficit by two-thirds.”
In horrifying detail, the article tallied up the various benefits, showing how a single parent of two school-age kids can earn only $11,000 a year at an undemanding part-time job, but still qualify for benefits of $53,128, raising the single parent’s effective income to $64,128. “Meanwhile,” they continued drily, “the welfare family would be eligible for another 90 smaller federal benefits and sundry state and local welfare programs.”
That’s without even trying that hard. Hardworking Somalis have even figured out how to earn millions in the American welfare game.
If you count welfare payments as income, most welfare recipients are actually living solidly in the middle class. Without working. This has produced the entirely predictable effect of disincentivizing effort. “Unsurprisingly,” the authors wrote, “in the last 50 years, the percentage of working-age persons in the bottom 20% of income who in fact work has fallen from 68% to 36%.”
None of these figures account for welfare fraud, or for people who can work but choose not to because playing the benefits game is easier and less time-consuming than working. Presumably, if the number of workers could be increased back to 68%, fewer people would need welfare to begin with. That estimated $240 billion of direct welfare transfer payments might even be much lower.
The authors —Cato and American Enterprise Institute economists— suggested that we start treating benefits as income for means-testing purposes. Currently, that hypothetical person making $11,000 is still classified as ‘poor’— even though they enjoy at least another $70,000 in “benefits” transferred from other taxpayers. Tallying their true income, at least, would force the various governments to be honest about how much welfare people are getting, and we could maybe cut them off at a point short of taking cruises and buying bitcoin.
What the authors didn’t say, but I will, is that the system cannot possibly be this broken on accident. We need to put the politicians and their friends who are enabling this shattered system through a thorough proctological exam. Headline from CBS, late this week:
US Attorney Thompson leads the federal investigation into the swelling Minnesota scandal. As he continues digging into the case, Thompson finds more and more evidence of pervasive welfare fraud. “When I look at the claims data and the providers, I see more red flags than legitimate providers.” In a recent news conference this week, Thompson said countless companies were created to provide zero services— while pocketing federal funds for international travel, luxury vehicles, and lavish lifestyles.
“The magnitude cannot be overstated,” Thompson told reporters. “What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It’s staggering, industrial-scale fraud.”
? This week’s press conference announced five new cases. Some of the fraudsters don’t even live in Minnesota, but are operating the scams from other states or countries. Two Philadelphia men, for instance, siphoned millions meant for housing folks with disabilities and drug addictions, without ever having visited the state. Another defendant submitted $1.4 million in fraudulent claims, and then used federal funds to buy cryptocurrency, Thompson said.
They didn’t catch him. Officials say the enterprising Somali pirate fled the country after receiving a subpoena.
Thompson said that at least $9 billion was fraudulent. For context, Somalia’s 2025 gross domestic product is estimated at only $12.94 billion. So.
When reporters asked who is to blame, Mr. Thompson replied —in a paroxysm of understatement— that Minnesota “has not done a good job of minding these programs.” You don’t say.
Here’s the thing. In a fraud scenario this pervasive and institutionalized, attention must necessarily shift from the bad actors to the bad officials who allowed it to happen over the last seven years. It is not nearly enough to assume they were merely negligent. The likelihood that officials personally profited from the fraud is so high in this case that it must be investigated.
But, even if it were purely negligence, and not intentional mismanagement, what does that say about the quality of people running Minnesota’s state government? Utter incompetence, at scale? Letting shell companies provide “zero services” while billing billions for luxury travel, crypto, and international tourism is not a subtle error; it shows that core controls, audits, and basic verification simply were not functioning at all.
It’s kind of like auditing a hospital and discovering that all the doctors were from the same corrupt African country, with no medical degrees, and all the patients were their relatives cycling in and out with fake names. You might have a few questions for the hospital administrator.
Similarly, even as the scale of the Minnesota fraud is difficult to fathom, it is also difficult to believe that no one in Minnesota’s state government could have detected the serious warning signs. Either people who did see the problems were ignored or overruled, or Minnesota has a culture so lax that obvious red flags never even made the fraud meter’s needle budge. When a state spends $18 billion on “high risk” services and a federal prosecutor can plausibly say “half or more” may be fraudulent, the issue is not a lack of theoretical tools; it is a breakdown of basic curiosity and accountability.
This scandal is likely in its early phases. The storm is still expanding.
On any reasonable historical reading, this is already one of the largest state welfare fraud fiascos on record, and it is being uncovered in the same era as the largest national health-care fraud takedown in DOJ history (which involved $14.6 billion across fifty states).
We are watching a hurricane of disclosure. It is nothing less than a condemnation of all technocratic, centralized Democrat social welfare policies. Undoubtedly, Democrats will double down. They’ll continue claiming these institutional levels of fraud merely represent a “handful of bad actors,” demanding ever higher levels of evidence, and insisting the real fraud is denying the lived experiences of people billing Medicaid from Mogadishu.
The Reckoning™ is getting closer than ever. Just wait for next year.
JEFF CHILDERS
Remember when DOGE was getting underway? In the beginning it seemed hardly a day passed when we were not regaled by claims of the team discovering corruption, theft and misappropriated funds running into billions upon billions of dollars. At one point it was suggested as much as a trillion in savings could be made. The claim was so incredible I was utterly dumbfounded about how that much corruption could really exist in Federal public accounts where professional accounting firms were used to audit. Then it ended. DOGE was shut down after claiming to have discovered a number of secret laptops that gave money on-demand as much as required with no documentation whatsover.
Should we believe any of this? On its face it sounds like bullshit. The world may have turned upside down politically but I doubt accounting went that sour without anyone even noticing as it evolved. There is a huge public service whose clerks are dedicated to billing, payments and accounts. Unless they are all deeply corrupt we are probably being fed a narrative to sway our thinking in a certain direction.
I am going to suggest this Minnesota fraud narrative is in the same camp. Somalis are clever thieves perhaps but they are not that intelligent with an average IQ of just 68. My old Border Collie had an IQ higher than 68. Retarded people score higher. So how is it a crowd of these guys defeated the governments checks and balances. Don’t they have to produce ID to get welfare?
I am sorry but everything about this story stinks. Jeff Childers has fallen for someone elses hoax.
Actually ther Fraud was facilitated by the Government …Walz DA Ellison Omar The Mayor of Minneapolis etc
It was easy when they all looked the other way and took their cut…there were NO checks and Balances
DOGE was not shut down it is still running and it has saved multiple Billions…see US Aide for example
The Deficit has been cut by a third this year…did you miss the memo ?
Brother Fully, I hope you are well this Christmas season and having a few stiff drinks to keep the chill out of the air. Sorry but I did not like this article. Its like so many others I see anymore but bite my tongue and try to ignore. Childers in this case has fallen for accepting at face value what he has read elsewhere. He is quoting from news articles that should be challenged. He is just repeating comments from people who may have an agenda or an axe to grind. Commenting on their comments in other words. At no point has he added any research material or provided the receipts to bolster the claims that so many billions of dollars were losses. The implication is left hanging that Somalis are behind much of it but that is not specifically what the guy said. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t like Somalis one bit. They are aggressive, rude and insulting and I have seen many in East Africa. But I simply don’t believe they walked off with 9 billion dollars in public funds through fraud or theft or cute antics in Minnesota. The story stinks. Childer needs to work harder because that was a lazy mans article of pretty much zero real substance.
Both sides are running up federal spending, and profiteering on the side.
In some cases, funneling funds to the states to cover their illegal deficits (IL MN and CA, among others).
Then the Fed buys the debt used to cover the deficits.
Total federal spending (no carve outs or exemptions) should be hard capped in nominal terms (not real), per capita.
Then placed on diet.