Fraud
April 2, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the New York Post, San Francisco human rights boss accused of corruption arrives in court. The Post reports, [Sheryl] Davis, former head of the city’s Human Rights Commission, was arrested Monday alongside her boyfriend James Spingola on charges of multiple felony counts of misappropriating public funds and conflicts of interest. The Post adds, They are accused of diverting millions in funds meant to uplift the black community after the
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April 1, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the U.K Daily Mail, Second Somali fraudster handed light sentence by Minneapolis judge. The Daily Mail reports, A second Somali fraudster, who stole half a million dollars, was handed a mere six months in jail by a Minneapolis judge, just a day after one of her co-conspirators was sentenced to a year. Zamzam Jama was ordered to pay back $491,000 and will spend half a year in jail for
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April 1, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The question keeps coming up in reference to the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal: what did Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison know, and when did he know it? Another piece to the puzzle can be found in a court filing made last month in the case of Sharon Ross, the former operator of the House of Refuge food distribution operation in St. Paul. Ross is Defendant No. 60 (out of
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March 31, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the U.K. Daily Mail, Somali fraudster handed laughably light sentence by Minneapolis judge over $3m taxpayer fraud. The Daily Mail reports, A man at the center of a $3 million taxpayer fraud connected to a sweeping Minnesota scam has been sentenced to only one year and one day in prison. Abdul Abubakar Ali pleaded guilty in 2022 for his role in the Feeding Our Future scandal in Minneapolis, which
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March 31, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Rich McHugh is an investigative reporter for NewsNation. He has taken an interest in Minnesota’s Somali fraud scandals. In the video clip below, he catches up with Scott Stillman. Stillman “blew the whistle on Minnesota daycare fraud NINE YEARS AGO in 2017. A digital forensics supervisor for the Minnesota Dep[artment] of Human Services in 2017, Stillman says when he sounded the alarm formally in writing, the political machine destroyed him.
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March 27, 2026 — Scott Johnson
When Imprimis editor Doug Jeffrey invited me to write “Learning From Minnesota’s Somali Fraud Scandal” for the January issue, I knew it offered a new experience. Imprimis is the monthly publication of Hillsdale College. It goes out to 7,000,000 free subscribers and is posted online as well. Since it was published in mid-January, I have heard from state and federal government officials wanting to follow up on the essay. I
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March 27, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Toward the end of last year, Imprimis editor Doug Jeffrey invited me to write an essay that would fill the publication’s January issue. Doug asked me to summarize the story of Minnesota’s Somali fraud cases for readers who may only have heard vaguely about them. Each issue of Imprimis affords space for 3,000 words or so. My draft was edited to fit the issue and published as “Learning From Minnesota’s
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March 22, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In today’s Weekend Beacon newsletter, books editor Vic Matus highlights an excerpt of Nicholas Eberstadt’s “thorough takedown of the late doomsayer Paul Ehrlich.” In “Insect-ifying Humanity: The Paul Ehrlich Legacy,” Eberstadt writes: * * * * * One of the reasons worldwide life expectancy has been rising over the postwar era is that food is becoming steadily more plentiful—so plentiful, in fact, that overnutrition is displacing undernutrition as the globe’s
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March 18, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Yes, it’s back in the headlines. From Fox News, Minnesota Fraud Exposed New audit exposes flawed system critics say let Minnesota fraud slip through cracks: ‘Didn’t act for years’ Long story short: the state’s Dept. of Human Services refused to investigate reports of kickbacks to “client” families paid by vendors in the state’s billion-dollar autism therapy program because…reasons. The Feeding Our Future child nutrition fraud will see six (6) more
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March 14, 2026 — John Hinderaker
The widespread fraud in Minnesota’s welfare programs, centered in the Somali community, has been a local story for a long time. Last December, it hit the national news in a big way. The story is significant in itself, but also because it suggests that fraud in federal/state welfare programs is probably common around the country. True, it is no doubt worse in Minnesota because of the gross incompetence (or complicity,
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March 4, 2026 — Bill Glahn
There are probably fewer than 100 people in America who would understand the importance of a 47-second exchange during today’s marathon 4-hour and 20-minute U.S. House Oversight committee hearing at the capitol. But the brief sequence gets to the heart of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s nonfeasance/misfeasance/malfeasance in regard to the multi-billion-dollar welfare frauds plaguing the state. Today’s committee hearing was headlined, Oversight of Fraud and Misuse of Federal Funds
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March 4, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Tim Walz and Keith Ellison are testifying this morning before the House Oversight Committee on fraud in Minnesota’s federally funded welfare programs. This will, to some degree, put Minnesota fraud back in the news. I am on vacation and don’t plan to watch the testimony, but Bill Glahn likely is doing so. [Bill: Yes, I am watching the hearing live here. Democrats will only talk about Operation Metro Surge and
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February 26, 2026 — Bill Glahn
People ask me, “Whatever happened to that Minnesota fraud story?” It never really went away, it just dropped from the headlines for a few weeks. But it’s making a big comeback. A sample from Reuters, Minnesota governor proposes to tackle fraud after Trump allegations led to immigration crackdown. The ideas themselves aren’t particularly original, and Tim Walz himself admits many were simply copied from Republicans. But that Walz feels the
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February 26, 2026 — Scott Johnson
We learn via X that Dr. Oz has deferred $259.5 million of quarterly federal Medicaid funding in Minnesota to prevent payment of questionable claims while further investigation is completed. The related press release explains: CMS’ review of Minnesota’s Medicaid spending for the fourth quarter in FY 2025 resulted in a deferral of $259,505,491 in federal matching funds. This includes state expenditures of $243.8 million for unsupported or potentially fraudulent Medicaid
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February 18, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Fahima Egeh Mahamud became the 79th defendant charged in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud case, and the first to be charged in 2026. She is currently being held in the federal lockup at the Sherburne County (MN) jail. According to court filings in the case, Mahamud operated a food distribution site under the name Future Leaders Early Learning Center under the sponsorship of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future. According
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February 14, 2026 — Bill Glahn
The purpose of a system is what it does. From the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Why is Minnesota so vulnerable to Medicaid fraud? Everyone already knows the answer: because the people in charge of Minnesota prefer it that way. But the Star Tribune spends 49 paragraphs pretending to seek an alternative explanation. In the world of journalism, an article like this used to be known as a “thumb-sucker.” I’m not kidding.
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February 10, 2026 — Scott Johnson
This past December 18 then First Assistant United States Attorney Joe Thompson announced the filing of charges against two Philadelphia men for Medicaid fraud. I covered the press conference in “The fraud this time.” Departing from the demographic profile of most of the defendnats in Minnesota’s massive public-programs fraud cases, the men are not Somali Minnesotans. Diversity! The Department of Justice posted a detailed press release against the two Philadelphia
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