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Fraud in America. It’s everywhere that government hands out “free” taxpayer money to someone else. (posted 12/31/25, updated 7:43am 12/31/25)
Likely by now, a million zillion words have been written about the massive fraud in Minnesota. We won’t try to present all of it, but we offer a few articles to help you draw your own conclusions. But first, our take for what it’s worth.
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Our Take
What’s happened in Minnesota likely is happening in most states, even “red” ones like Idaho.
Anytime you have public (i.e. government) / private / NGO partnerships, fraud can explode as it did in Minnesota.
Every state and federal legislator should re-examine all such partnerships and either defund and dissolve them (our preference) or audit the heck out of them. Follow the money, find the fraud and abuse.
While Minnesota may be the worst example of what happens when “compassion” and “tolerance” turn into apathy, approval, normalization, and extravagant but ineffective government funding and bureaucracy to “help” refugees and other “underserved” and “rural” individuals, it is not alone.
This is happening in large states and small, especially those run by left-leaning governments. And most states are run by left-leaning governments — even so-called “Republican” states like Idaho where policies of the “R” governor and voting of many “R” legislators are often indistinguishable from those with “D”.
These officials often take office through election fraud, apathy and low voter turnout, or uninformed voters who fall for slick messages of kindness and compassion or outright lies to get votes.
See Ballotpedia’s “Partisan composition of governors:” tinyurl.com/2tpxan42. (See sidebar for additional links about partisan composition of state elected officials.)
Do we really want our country to fall into the depths that Minnesota has? The fraud in Minnesota and being uncovered throughout the land should make you angry and perhaps inspire you to:
Vote smarter.
Shun government money distributed to unaccountable NGOs or bureaucracies that do little but enrich themselves and their friends.
OK, enough lecturing, here are some articles for you to read that touch on all that’s going wrong with taking other people’s money (i.e., taxpayers’ money) and putting it into the hands and wallets of someone else.
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Selected articles and memes (summaries lightly edited from Grok, images from some memes on X).
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📌 NOT JUST MINNESOTA? Elon Musk Reacts as Internet Sleuth Sound the Alarm in Washington State — Hundreds of Somali-Run Child Care Centers Allegedly Lack Physical Addresses. By Jim Hᴏft (12/30/25): tinyurl.com/5d3zafxw
Fraud scandal involving Somali-run childcare centers, previously uncovered in Minnesota, has raised alarms in Washington State, where researcher Kristen Mag found 539 such centers in the state database listing Somali as the primary language, most lacking street addresses.
Washington has 5,046 childcare centers in the subsidy-eligible Early Achievers program, with over 10% Somali-primary and concentrated in Seattle-Tacoma and Western areas.
In Minnesota, journalist Nick Shirley reported over $110 million in one day and visited an empty center claiming 102 children.
Elon Musk commented on X: “They are fraud-maxxing this exploit.”
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📌 Minnesota: The $9 Billion Heist (Part 1). How the Most Progressive State in America Became the Fraud Capital of American Healthcare. By Dutch Rojas (12/29/25): tinyurl.com/4cr5fdbt
Since 2018, $9 billion has been stolen from Minnesota's Medicaid and federal nutrition programs in the largest U.S. fraud case (United States v. Feeding Our Future).
Feeding Our Future nonprofit falsely claimed meal distributions during COVID, inflating reimbursements from $3.4M in 2019 to $198M in 2021 via fake sites.
78 charged, over 50 convicted.
Funds bought luxury items, foreign real estate, possibly linked to al-Shabaab.
Scheme hit programs including Housing Stabilization ($107M in 2024 vs. $2.6M estimate), autism services ($3M to $399M claims 2018-2023 with kickbacks), Integrated Supports (undelivered billing), and transportation (800+ firms unverified).
U.S. Attorney estimates half of $18B in 14 programs were fraudulent.
DHS accused of ignoring warnings and destroying evidence under Gov. Walz, and retaliating against whistleblowers.
Ongoing FBI, congressional, Treasury probes.
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📌 Minnesota: The Hospital Cartel (Part 2). How a 40-Year-Old Law Created Protected Monopolies While Nonprofit Executives Got Rich. By Dutch Rojas (12/30/25): tinyurl.com/mtz8a8cb
Minnesota's 40-year hospital construction moratorium creates monopolies, inflating service prices over 200% above national average, and enabling $9 billion in Medicaid fraud since 2018.
Nonprofit systems including Allina, Fairview, HealthPartners, Mayo, and Essentia generated $630 million in 340B drug discount profits in 2023; 80% went to 13% of hospitals, which provided below-average charity care and maintained 30% unused beds.
Executives earned millions, including Allina's CEO over $3 million and M Health Fairview's $3.55 million.
Politicians Amy Klobuchar, Tim Walz, and Ilhan Omar did nothing.
Federal probes ongoing.
Whistleblowers report retaliation.
Residents endure long ER waits for care.
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📌 Idaho: Raising Questions About Childcare Subsidies in Idaho. At the very least, the system is designed to be exploited. By Brian Almon (12/29/25): tinyurl.com/5n8n8afu
Idaho's childcare subsidies, including the Idaho Child Care Program (ICCP) serving 7,800 children with $52 million appropriated for FY2024, face questions amid $15 million overrun in 2024 and projected $22 million in 2025.
Jannus Economic Opportunity trained refugees for 64 Boise daycares, 10% of total. Examples:
Somali refugee Zainab Dalib, who received over $350,000 in welfare from 2019-2023
Tanzanian refugee Silvie Mwenematale, who received over $750,000, opened Umoja Child Care in 2019 accepting only ICCP payments, faced misdemeanor charges for unlicensed supervision in 2023, and had her daycare terminated from ICCP.
Parallels drawn to Minnesota's Somali-run daycare fraud involving millions stolen.
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW) Director Alex Adams reported overruns to legislature and tried to close the budget gap without requesting more money.
ED Note Unfortunately, Alex Adams left Idaho for a position in the Trump administration as Assistant Secretary for Family Support: tinyurl.com/5drz4zeb
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📌 Idaho: A System Designed to Be Abused. Exploiting loopholes isn't fraud, but... By Brian Almon (12/30/25): tinyurl.com/4ksu5rkt
Welfare fraud in childcare subsidies spans Minnesota and Idaho, with "paper daycares" like Quality Learning Center shut down but seeing children arrive post-closure.
Yetu Sote Daycare replaced Umoja Child Care, which received over $750,000 in welfare from 2019-2023/2024 with enrolled children.
Government policies and NGOs enable exploitation.
Jannus NGO got $30M+ in 2024 for Idaho refugee resettlement and lobbying.
US Rep. Tom Emmer, co-founder of 2015 House Somalia Caucus, now advocates deporting fraud-committing Somalis, including citizenship revocation.
Senate proposes $5.6B, House $4.3B for refugee/DEI funding despite Trump anti-DEI policies.
ED NOTE Will Trump sign these bills? We’re guessing he will but hoping he won't.Like us, Almon calls for states to halt such enabling funds. Will they?
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📌🆕 Idaho Taxpayers Deserve Better Than Minnesota's Billion-Dollar Disaster. We demand fraud prevention measures before releasing $14M in childcare funds. By Brian Lenney (12/31/25, letter images below): tinyurl.com/mrxdtchz
Three cheers to Sen. Lenney and Rep. Josh Tanner!
Minnesota faced billions in childcare subsidy fraud, mainly by foreigners, limiting aid for American families.
Idaho's system shows similar risks with lax oversight.
Senate Bill 1206 (tinyurl.com/4k8tsjf4) allocated $14M+ in new subsidies without anti-fraud measures. Sen. Brian Lenney opposed it.
Sen. Lenney sent a letter to IDHW pausing funds until safeguards exist.
With Rep. Josh Tanner demanded fraud prevention, past disbursement review, and Jan. 10 briefing.
Positive development: Ex-Idaho officials Alex Adams and Wendy Horman now in federal child/family roles.
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