December 29, 2025 – Pam Bondi responds to Minnesota fraud exposed by Nick Shirley

In Email/Dossier/Govt Corruption Investigations, Featured Timeline Entries by Katie Weddington

MINNESOTA FRAUD:

@NickShirleyyy’s work has helped show Americans the scale of fraud in Tim Walz’s Minnesota.

@TheJusticeDept has been investigating this for months. So far, we have charged 98 individuals – 85 of Somali descent – and more than 60 have been found guilty in court.

We have more prosecutions coming…BUCKLE UP, LAWMAKERS!

I am incredibly grateful to our U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen and @DMNnews for their dedicated and ongoing work to uncover this fraud and build strong cases against its perpetrators.

Here are a few examples of the cases we have prosecuted with other federal partners like @SecScottBessent ⬇️

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Scam 1: FEEDING OUR FUTURE — THE LARGEST COVID-19 FRAUD CASE CHARGED IN THE COUNTRY

– Claimed to serve children millions of free meals during COVID—few, if any, were ever fed
– Submitted fake invoices and fake rosters of kids purportedly receiving meals
– 78 defendants charged to date | 57 defendants convicted
– 72 of the defendants are of Somalian descent | 5 defendants are currently fugitives in Africa
– Millions of taxpayer dollars in fraud proceeds were sent overseas to East Africa and the Middle East
-Ultimate price tag? $300-400 million.

Scam 2: JUROR BRIBERY

Not unlike what you would see in the corrupt Somali judicial system, defendants in the Feeding Our Future case intimidated a cooperating defendant and attempted to bribe jurors

– 3 defendants delivered a bag containing $120,000 in cash to a juror’s house the night before closing arguments
– They promised more money if the juror voted to acquit all 7 trial defendants
– They offered this argument: “We are immigrants; they don’t respect or care about us”

Scam 3: AUTISM TREATMENT MEDICAID SCHEME

-Many defendants from the Feeding Our Future scam also set up fake “autism clinics”
-Parents in the Somali community reported their children diagnosed as autistic, brought them into daycares disguised as “clinics,” and received huge financial kickbacks
-The state government program underwriting this scam was supposed to cost $20 million.
Somehow, it ballooned to $200 million…at taxpayers’ expense

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Scam 4: MEDICAID FRAUD

-Fraudsters identified Minnesota’s Medication coverage program for Housing Stabilization Services – a program meant to help people with disabilities, senior citizens, and people with mental illnesses
-Then, they started sham LLCs and began signing up drug addicts and others in halfway houses for services that were NEVER provided.
-The program was supposed to cost $2.6 million per year – it exploded to $125 million per year