Minnesota Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan was seen on a Somali TV station wearing a hijab at a mall, as a widespread fraud scandal implicating some Somalis plagues the state. "The ...
A Maine health services company recently accused by a whistleblower of bilking taxpayers out of millions in Medicaid funds saw its spigot shut off this week as the state Department of Health moved to ...
Abdi Jama’s phone started buzzing with questions from community members a month ago, when President Donald Trump referred to people from Somalia as “garbage” and said they should “go back to where ...
Americans were stunned last month to learn that members of Minnesota’s Somali community had scammed state taxpayers out of hundreds of millions — possibly even billions — of dollars. The question on ...
In 2015, I penned an article for the Pioneer Press titled, “Somalis are resilient Americans, not terrorists.” At the time, Minnesota’s Somali community was facing a wave of politically motivated ...
Columbus is home to the second-largest community of Somali residents behind Minnesota. President Trump made headlines recently for his offensive comments about Somalis, calling them “garbage” and ...
During a White House press briefing this month, press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on Trump's hateful rhetoric against Somalian immigrants. Leavitt stated, "Somali immigrants have been ...
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) called for the deportation of all Somalis linked to fraud in Minnesota, amid heightened scrutiny of the state’s handling of the illegal activity. In a post on ...
Minn.’s Somali social-services scammers may have stolen $9 billion — nearly Somalia’s entire economy
A staggering $9 billion may have been stolen in Minnesota’s sprawling social-services scam orchestrated mainly by members of its Somali community — a figure nearly equivalent to the entire economy of ...
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown said members of the Somali community have reached out to his office following reports of Somali child care providers in Washington being harassed and accused of ...
WASHINGTON ‒ The Trump administration is exploring the denaturalization of Somali-Americans in Minnesota who engaged in fraud, a move that would seek to strip the U.S. citizenship of those who ...
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