Minnesota Fraud Case: The Perps Are Not Diverse
13th August 2025
The number of defendants charged in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud has now reached 73. Fifty have been convicted. Almost every defendant is a first- or second-generation Somali immigrant. In a case that has yet to be charged, Somalis figure prominently in a Minnesota Medicaid fraud that bears some of the hallmarks of the Feeding Our Future case, but nothing will ever top that one.
Somali Minnesotans are also featured in Minnesota’s apparent daycare fraud. In 2023 Deena Winter reported that about half of the defendants then charged in the Feeding Our Future case had been paid tens of millions more in state money for services such as providing child care and assisting seniors and people with disabilities.
I suppose some would consider it racist to point out this lack of diversity, even though Somalis are not a race. Somalia is a country. It also happens to be overwhelmingly Muslim, which is also not a race. But it’s a third-world country, a failed country, and one that even Somalis realize is the world’s most corrupt.