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Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday the Department of Justice has been investigating Minnesota’s recently exposed daycare fraud for months, with nearly 100 individuals charged so far—85 being of Somali descent.

Bondi credited independent journalist Nick Shirley for posting a video with now over 120 million views on X that reported $110 million worth of alleged and proven fraud among Somali-owned daycares in Minnesota. The attorney general said that more than 60 individuals have already been found guilty in court so far.

“[Shirley’s] work has helped show Americans the scale of fraud in Tim Walz’s Minnesota,” Bondi <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/2005764911427731459?s=20">posted</a> on X, adding that more prosecutions are coming.

Bondi said the DOJ, along with U.S. Attorney General for Minnesota Daniel Rosen, has been working for months to build cases against the alleged fraudsters.

She said her agency has also worked closely with other federal partners, like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner, and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, on the prosecutions.

Bondi’s X post highlighted several Minnesota cases that have already been prosecuted.

Secretary Chavez-DeRemer in a social media <a href="https://x.com/SecretaryLCD/status/2005692075292123611?s=20">post</a> accused state leaders, including Gov. Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), of allowing the fraud scheme to develop.

“We will bring an end to the Somali fraud network,” the Department of Labor <a href="https://x.com/USDOL/status/2005692451084726301?s=20">posted</a> to X.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

One example, which Bondi described as the largest COVID-19 fraud case in the country, claimed to have served children millions of free meals.

“Few, if any, were fed,” Bondi said in her announcement.

The attorney general reported 78 defendants have been charged to date in this scam, with 57 convicted. Of the defendant, 72 are of Somali descent, and five are currently fugitives in Africa, Bondi said, with between $300-400 million in U.S. taxpayer money sent to East Africa and the Middle East.

The federally funded child nutrition program, called Feeding Our Future, during COVID-19 resulted in the scheme’s leader being sentenced to 28 years in prison and restitution of nearly $48 million, according to an August DOJ <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/landmark-sentence-feeding-our-future-scheme-leader-sentenced-28-years-prison">news release</a>. The leader of the scam, Kenyan national Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, claimed to have served 18 million meals to children.

“This country gave Farah everything. A home. Citizenship. A free college education. After that he went on to public employment with the state of Minnesota. And how did he repay this country and this state? By robbing us blind,” acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said in August, arguing for a longer sentence to the judge.

Another defendant in the Feeding Our Future scheme, Abdimajid Mohamed Nur, was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/feeding-our-future-defendant-sentenced-10-years-prison">sentenced</a> last month to 10 years in federal prison and ordered to also pay nearly $8 million in restitution.

In Bondi’s X post, she said that more defendants involved in the massive amount of fraud attempted to bribe three jurors by delivering a bag to their homes containing $120,000, a promise of more money if they voted to acquit at trial, and a note saying “We are immigrants; they don’t respect or care about us … [T]he government kept attacking Somali culture . . . [and] was very racist.”

In another example, the attorney general detailed an autism treatment Medicaid scheme. The state-funded program was supposed to cost $20 million but ballooned $200 million at taxpayers’ expense, Bondi alleged.

“Parents in the Somali community reported their children diagnosed as autistic, brought them into daycares disguised as “clinics,” and received huge financial kickbacks,” Bondi <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/2005764937348514101?s=20">said</a> in an X post.

In another Medicaid scheme involving housing services for senior citizens and people with disabilities or mental illnesses, taxpayers were allegedly scammed out of $125 million per year. Eight alleged fraudsters have been charged and accused of starting fake LLCs, then signing up drug addicts and others in halfway houses for services that were never given, Bondi <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/2005764941769257449?s=20">alleged</a>.

“I want to be clear on the scope of the crisis. What we see are schemes stacked upon schemes, draining resources meant for those in need. It feels never ending. I have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor and the depth of the fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away,” acting U.S. Attorney Thompson <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/defendants-charged-first-wave-housing-stabilization-fraud-cases">said</a>.

The same day as the attorney general’s announcement Monday on X, Noem also <a href="https://x.com/Sec_Noem/status/2005686960984293711?s=20">posted</a> that agents were currently on the ground in Minnesota for a “massive” investigation into childcare and other “rampant fraud.” Homeland Security also made a separate post, showing DHS agents walking into what appears to be a smokeshop.

“The American people deserve answers on how their taxpayer money is being used and ARRESTS when abuse is found,” Homeland Security said in its <a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2005688262695018606?s=20">post</a>.

In one of Shirley’s recent X <a href="https://x.com/nickshirleyy/status/2005702628710261027?s=20">posts</a> today, he said there are serious threats being made against him.

<em>From <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/doj-has-charged-nearly-100-people-in-minnesota-fraud-scandal-85-of-somali-descent-5964021">The Epoch Times</a></em>

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