Somali “Staggering, Industrial-Scale” FRAUD in ONE STATE Far Exceeds Somalia’s ENTIRE GDP

First Assistant US Attorney Joe Thompson says $18 billion has been paid out in 14 programs flagged as high-risk for fraud in Minnesota since 2018

Thompson says he suspects a “significant portion” of the $18 billion was fraud

“The fraud is not small. It isn’t isolated. The magnitude cannot be overstated. It’s a staggering, industrial scale fraud. It’s swamping Minnesota and calling into question everything we know about our state.”

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A former UN weapons inspector is convinced al-Qaeda-linked terrorists in Somalia almost certainly got their hands on money looted from Minnesota’s welfare system, in what is fast becoming one of the biggest fraud scandals in US history. Matt Bryden –⁠ who for four years ran the UN Security Council’s monitoring mission for Somalia and Eritrea –⁠ told the Daily Mail he believes al-Shabaab militants likely skimmed off a slice of cash siphoned from Minnesota’s pandemic-era feeding program and wired it to the Horn of Africa. ‘Al-Shabaab taxes everything it can, including remittance companies,’ said Bryden, now a strategist with the Nairobi-based consultancy Sahan . ‘Where the money comes from or who receives it is incidental –⁠ it’s the business that is taxed, not the transaction.’ (MSN)

For Context:

Somalia’s Entire GDP: $13 Billion

Exposure to Somali FRAUD in ONE STATE: $18 Billion

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— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) December 18, 2025

LIVE: First Assistant US Attorney Joe Thompson provides major update on fraud in Minnesota https://t.co/Xu87IUFGtY

— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) December 18, 2025

For Context:

Somalia’s Entire GDP: $13 Billion

Exposure to Somali FRAUD in ONE STATE: $18 Billion

END IT ALL https://t.co/6S4rkgTCcV

— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) December 18, 2025

For Context:

Somalia’s Entire GDP: $13 Billion

Exposure to Somali FRAUD in ONE STATE: $18 Billion

Which then begs the question, how much of Somalia’s GDP is money laundered by NGOs of stolen American tax dollars

Bloomington, Minn. (Dec. 18) — Federal authorities raid the offices of the Somali-owned Ultimate Home Health in their investigation into a massive Minnesota state Medicaid fraud scheme. Somalians in Minnesota have stolen hundreds of millions from taxpayers.pic.twitter.com/RpvWM3pewI

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 18, 2025

Feds bring new charges tied to ‘staggering’ Minnesota Medicaid fraud

By: MPR News, December 19, 2o25:

.Federal prosecutors on Thursday unveiled more charges in a widespread, ongoing investigation of “staggering, industrial-scale” Medicaid fraud in Minnesota that’s likely to reach into the billions of dollars.

The newest indictments allege defendants bilked a Medicaid-funded housing stabilization services program operating in Minnesota, billing for services they didn’t perform, with the money used for global travel and international real estate.

Another set of indictments accuses two men from Philadelphia of committing what Joe Thompson, first U.S. assistant attorney for Minnesota, described as “fraud tourism” — creating two companies that submitted $3.5 million in fraudulent Medicaid claim for nonexistent housing support services in Minnesota.

Thompson said the pair dropped into Minnesota because they’d heard the program was “easy money.”

Separately, Thompson said another defendant had been charged in a scheme to defraud a federally funded program intended to help children with autism — an operation, he said, provided “kickbacks to parents” to have their children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and enrolled for services they didn’t need or weren’t provided, tallying more than $6 million in fraud.

Thompson delivers a statement
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson (center) delivers remarks as a slide reading “$18 billion” is displayed during a news conference about alleged fraud against the government at the U.S. Attorney’s Office.Kerem Yücel | MPR News
At a press conference unveiling the latest charges, Thompson suggested that fraud might have siphoned at least half of the $18 billion spent in Minnesota since 2018 in the 14 Medicaid programs viewed as high risk for abuse, although the dollar amounts tied to prosecutions so far are closer to $300 million.

He said the scale of what’s been seen here isn’t happening in any other state.

“The fraud is not small. It isn’t isolated. The magnitude cannot be overstated,” Thompson told reporters Thursday.

“What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It’s a staggering industrial-scale fraud. It’s swamping Minnesota and calling into question everything we know about our state.”

Every day, he said, investigators “look under a rock and find a new $50 million fraud scheme.”

Responding to questions, Thompson said there was no indication that any of the money fraudulently obtained went to directly fund terrorism. While some money might have made it indirectly to the terror group al-Shabab, there is “no indication that defendants were sending money to terrorist organizations or supporting terrorist organizations in that way,” he said.

Thompson delivers a statement
A slide outlining details of the Early Intensive Development and Behavior Intervention (EIDBI) autism program is displayed during remarks by the U.S. Attorney’s Office about alleged fraud against the government.Kerem Yücel | MPR News
‘Little risk, few consequences’
The new charges Thursday involved six additional people alleged to have been part of schemes to defraud the autism aid and Housing Stabilization Services programs.

Abdinajib Hassan Yussuf, 27, is accused of defrauding the Early Intensive Development and Behavior Intervention benefit, or EIDBI. Yussuf ran Star Autism Center in St. Cloud, and allegedly stole $6 million, using some of it to buy a semitrailer truck and send more than $200,000 to Kenya.

Prosecutors say Star Autism claimed to provide one-on-one therapy to children with autism but hired unqualified “behavioral technicians” that were “often 18- or 19-year-old relatives, with no formal education beyond high school and no training or certifications related to the treatment of autism.”

In a related case, Asha Hassan, who ran a Minneapolis autism clinic, pleaded guilty Thursday morning to stealing $14 million from the program.

Prosecutors on Thursday also charged three people — Hassan Ahmed Hussein, 28, Ahmed Abdirashid Mohamed, 27, and Kaamil Omar Sallah, 26 — with defrauding the housing stabilization program. Hussein and Mohamed allegedly stole $750,000 through their St. Paul company, Pristine Health. Sallah allegedly stole another $1.3 million through another company.

The housing stabilization program was meant to help people with disabilities find and keep housing, but relatively few people got help. And the payouts kept growing, peaking at $105 million in 2024. This year they finally dropped after Gov. Tim Walz canceled the program when prosecutors found that most of the payouts were fraudulent.

The extremely rapid growth in payouts turned out to be a red flag. State lawmakers originally estimated that the Housing Stabilization Services program, which started in 2020, would cost $2.6 million a year. But in 2021, it paid out nearly $28 million — 10 times the original estimate.

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