Fraud
May 12, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Under Tim Walz, Minnesota has become the most scandal-ridden state in America. So far, no one in state government has been held accountable for theft that has mounted into billions of dollars. Today, a first step toward accountability was taken by the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and Oversight Committee, chaired by my friend Kristen Robbins. The Republican majority on the Fraud Committee issued an 84-page Final Report on its sixteen-month
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May 10, 2026 — Steven Hayward
Note: I am interrupting my extended sabbatical (which will soon involve spending most of the next four months overseas working on two books) from commenting on news of the day to dilate John’s post immediately below about how Minnesota Democrats reversed course on investigating social service program fraud in Minnesota. I thought about posting this just as a comment, but as it grew I then thought, what the heck. .
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May 10, 2026 — John Hinderaker
As all the world knows, Minnesota’s DFL Party has stood by for years while criminals stole billions of taxpayer dollars. Republicans have tried to stop the steal, but have gotten no cooperation from Democrats. Thus, in last year’s legislative session, the Republicans proposed to establish an office of Inspector General to investigate fraud in state government, with the power to bring criminal prosecutions. That proposal was, for obvious reasons, popular
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May 6, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the Minnesota House Session Daily, Split vote blocks House fraud panel’s attempt to subpoena U.S. Rep. Omar. Session Daily reports, A rarely used legislative tactic will not occur in the final 12 days of this year’s session. A motion to issue a subpoena to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to produce documentation related to the Feeding Our Future scandal failed to garner enough support Tuesday by the House Fraud Prevention and
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May 2, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Don’t be Minnesota. From the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Don’t Minnesota my state: Land of 10,000 Lakes becomes a political punching bag. The Star Tribune is completely baffled by this development, which they view as wholly undeserved. The Star Tribune blames “conservative candidates” and Trump for the phenomenon. The Star Tribune tracks down a political science professor who attributes the state’s unwanted status entirely to a Trump “grudge.” No mention is
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April 28, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Minnesota is once again in the spotlight for its massive completely out-of-control fraud with another round of FBI raids this morning. A roundup of coverage, starting with the locals, Star Tribune: Minnesota assists federal agents on raids targeting fraud. No. Not even a little bit. But that hasn’t stopped Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and other unworthies from taking wholly unearned victory laps. National coverage, Associated Press (AP): Agents armed with
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April 28, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The U.S. Dept. of Justice has accused Aimee Bock and her adult sons of sending confidential court material to the Minnesota Star Tribune and other media outlets. Bock, defendant No. 1 in the sprawling free-food scandal, is scheduled to be sentenced on May 21, following her courtroom conviction on seven (7) felony counts last year. Bock was the founder and CEO of the nonprofit at the center of the case, Feeding Our
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April 28, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Today the FBI executed twenty-two search warrants around the metropolitan Twin Cities in its continued investigation of the massiive public-programs fraud committed by an almost exclusively Somali cast of perpetrators. The United States Attorney will present the evidence to a federal grand jury and secure indictments in due course. In the Feeding Our Future case, the time between the searches and the first indictments ran some nine months. The FBI
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April 28, 2026 — Bill Glahn
It’s like Christmas in April. Another two dozen fraud-linked locations in Minnesota were raided by the FBI this morning. Reportedly, Quality Learing Center was among them. Local reporter Lou Raguse (KARE-11 TV, NBC) reports that of the 22 addresses raided today, 10 were childcares (including Quality Learing), five were autism centers, and seven were other businesses. In the meantime, so much winning. JOHN adds: In December of last year, then-Assistant
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April 25, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the Washington Examiner, How Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is embroiled in the Feeding Our Future scandal. The Examiner reports, Members of the GOP-led Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee continued to examine Ellison’s entanglement in the Feeding Our Future scandal at a hearing this week, which Ellison skipped. The Examiner goes on to perform a public service by undertaking a comprehensive re-reporting of the
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April 24, 2026 — Bill Glahn
It all began to unravel last Friday (April 17), when the Wall Street Journal reported that the Minnesota congresswoman’s net worth had plummeted in less than a year from as much as $30 million to less than $100,000. Oof. On Monday, the Journal followed up on their news item with an opinion piece. On Tuesday, Rep. Omar had a much-reported-on run-in with a reporter in the hallway in Congress. Also
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April 22, 2026 — Bill Glahn
We were hoping that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MPLS) would have made an appearance at yesterday’s meeting of the Minnesota state House Fraud prevention committee. The timing would have been fantastic, as the story of her 3,500 percent “accounting error” that reduced her net worth from $30 million to a mere $95,000 continues to reverberate. She had been invited to attend, but did not respond and did not appear or send
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April 22, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The Minnesota state House Fraud Prevention committee met yesterday and the star attraction was to have been a repeat appearance from state Attorney General Keith Ellison. Ellison was asked to appear and answer more questions about his involvement in the Feeding our Future fraud scandal in light of new information made public since his last appearance in April 2025. The night before the hearing, Mr. Ellison sent his regrets via
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April 22, 2026 — Scott Johnson
It was Voltaire who observed that the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. You can look it up. Unlike the Southern Poverty Law Center, however, it wasn’t a fraud from the name on down. The SPLC is. The Department of Justice has secured an indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center in the Middle District of Alabama (Montgomery, the SPLC’s home base). The indictment is
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April 15, 2026 — John Hinderaker
This pretty much says it all. The question, I suppose, is whether we have gotten to the point where the check cashers outnumber the check writers:
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April 12, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Lou Raguse of local KARE-11 TV (NBC) broke the story Friday morning of “Minnesota Man” Abdirashid Ismail Said, 50, fleeing the country with $11 million in fraud proceeds. The story has now gone global. New York Post: Minnesota fraud suspect skips court, forfeits bond, throwing $11M Medicaid case into doubt. U.K. Daily Mail: Minnesota fraud suspect fails to show in court throwing $11 million Medicaid case into doubt. Said’s courtroom
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April 10, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Lou Raguse of KARE-11 TV (NBC, Minneapolis) has the report on Abdirashid Ismail Said, accused of an $11 million Medicaid fraud, fled the country a week before his scheduled courtroom trial. And how did he get away? He posted a $150,000 unconditional bond. The judge did not make him surrender his passport. This, despite a previous conviction for Medicaid fraud. I wrote about the case back in 2023. Said, age
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