The U.S. public opinion has shaken information about multimillion-dollar fraud that was to be done in public funds. alternatively of feeding children, money was spent on vacation on islands, luxury cars, properties in popular resorts, jewelry and another costly items. Moreover, for stolen, Democrats politicians and members of the Somali number bought property in exotic countries and even supported terrorism.
In the United States, a immense financial scandal broke out. The national government there is investigating fraud involving social assistance, in which hundreds of millions of dollars allocated to the national food program have allegedly been utilized for luxury shopping. Somali mafia is active in the process, working with Democrats.
As confirmed by national sources to American NewsNation service, nearly 90 people have already been convicted, most of whom are Somali Americans. 2 defendants have already been convicted, 1 of whom received 28 years in prison, and the another has to pay $48 million in compensation. The scandal directed the public's attention to the politician of Minnesota of the Democratic Party, Tim Walz, and the Somali community of that state, which is presently the mark of Trump's administration to enforce immigration laws.
At the center of the charges is the non-profit organization Feeding Our Future. Founded in 2016, the organization opened more than 200 facilities for a national children's nutrition program across the state of Minnesota and claimed that during the COVID-19 pandemic, it served meals regular to thousands of children. However, court papers indicate that alternatively of feeding children, money was misappropriated by frauds or sent elsewhere, including Somalia, Kenya and China.
The charges first appeared in 2022 erstwhile U.S. lawyer General Merrick Garland called fraud worth $250 million "a threatening conspiracy to bargain public funds intended to care for needy children".
The FBI has late accused many people in akin cases in the state of Minnesota, including a fraud involving the stabilization of the housing situation in which millions of dollars were removed from the Housing stableness Services Program in the state of Minnesota. Another case concerns at least $14 million from the Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program, a national aid program for people with autism.
According to court documents, funds collected by the organization Feeding Our Future were spent on vacation on islands, luxury cars, waterfront properties, jewelry and another costly items. The evidence presented during the national trial shows the defendants of fraud celebrating their honeymoon in the Maldives by champagne and buying full buildings in Kenya. national sources confirmed to NewsNation that any of the funds were besides placed in the hands of an Al-Qaeda-related terrorist group in Somalia.
One of the recovered text messages said: “Please send $1,000 to Mogadishu Bakara”, referring to the marketplace in Somalia, which was previously controlled by Al-Shabaab and was the site of the 1993 Black Hawk Down incidental in which 18 American soldiers were killed.
FBI manager Kash Patel promised that additional resources would be allocated to the Minnesota state fraud investigation, calling the current criminal proceedings "the top of a very large iceberg". Patel besides referred to a popular movie that depicts an inactive childcare facility in Minneapolis that allegedly received state and national funds.
The movie sparked wide media interest in these cases, although Patel said that "before the escalation of public discussion on the Internet, the FBI sent additional personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to break down the large scams utilizing national programs."
The case was besides referred to by the Vice president of the United States, J. D. Vance. "What happens in Minnesota is the microcosm of immigration fraud in our system. Politicians like it due to the fact that they gain power. Social cheaters like it due to the fact that they get rich. But it's a zero-sum game, and they bargain both money and political power from Minnesota's residents.” – he wrote in the entry on X.
