The country is only now starting to grasp the scale of an ongoing scandal in Minnesota, where state taxpayers have allegedly been robbed of well over a billion dollars through overlapping welfare-fraud schemes centered in and around Minneapolis’s close-knit Somali diaspora.
This isn’t just a story about lost money; it cuts to the heart of our immigration policies and how they’re enforced. For years, most major outlets looked the other way, even as smaller platforms — including Power Line, where Scott Johnson has closely followed the court cases — sounded the alarm.
In September 2022, federal authorities began indicting groups of Somali Americans in the Minneapolis area for allegedly siphoning money from Minnesota’s welfare and public-assistance programs. The first big case to break into public view was the Feeding Our Future scandal. So far, 75 people tied to this Somali “charitable” group have been charged with exploiting a flood of post-2020 Covid relief funds that were available to anyone willing to claim a charitable mission. Feeding Our Future secured millions of dollars in pandemic funding by promising to supply “school lunches” to disadvantaged children in the Twin Cities’ Somali community…