CBS National News now investigating Minnesota fraud

It's predictable that WCCO-TV, the CBS station in Minneapolis, MN, wouldn't investigate the Somali/Medicaid fraud fiasco. Amongst Minnesota conservatives, WCCO is known as part of the DFL's protectorate. The joke is that the next time that WCCO does a hard-hitting investigation of the DFL, aka Democrat-Farmer-Laborer Party, it'll be the first hard-hitting investigation of the DFL. Therefore, the necessity for CBS National doing the investigative report.

The investigatve report starts by saying "Luxury cars, private villas and overseas wire transfers: CBS News obtained dozens of files and photos that reveal how Minnesota fraudsters blew through hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars as part of one of the biggest COVID-era fraud schemes." Gently omitted from the report is that most of the grifters are Somalis.

The report continues, saying "The files document a spending spree in which defendants, many of Somali descent, took taxpayer money meant to feed hungry children and used it to buy cars, property and jewelry. Videos show them popping champagne at an opulent Maldives resort. In a text message, one defendant boasts: "You are gonna be the richest 25 year old InshaAllah [God willing]."

There's nnno guillt about the grift, no second thoughtsl either. After viewing this tweeet, this attitude isn't surprising:

What's most amazing is hearing Erica McDonald, the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota during Trump's first term, say that they heard there wasn't any accountability:

That isn't that surprising. Things haven't changed much. Blame leadership (or lack thereof) for that.
Nur is one of dozens who siphoned hundreds of millions in stolen taxpayer funds — with questions still swirling about where all the money went. The crime has drawn renewed attention in recent weeks: House Republicans last week launched a probe into Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz's handling of the cases, and the Treasury Department said it will investigate whether money made its way to al Qaeda affiliate al Shabaab, which is based in Somalia.

"A lot of money has been transferred from the individuals who committed this fraud," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." Much of that money "has gone overseas, and we are tracking that both to the Middle East and to Somalia to see what the uses of that have been." Multiple federal investigators told CBS News there is no evidence taxpayer dollars were funneled to al Shabaab, and prosecutors have yet to present any evidence linking any of the fraudsters to terrorism.

Minnesota is now nicknamed 'the land of 10,000 frauds.' It isn't meant as a compliment.

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