The revelation that COVID-19 era federal relief programs in Minnesota were fleeced by Somali migrants who likely passed the loot to the Al-Shabaab* (affiliated with al-Qaeda*) terror group caused a media Storm in November 2025.

Reports emerging in November 2025 revealed that Somali Migrants in Minnesota swindled hundreds of millions from  federal agencies during the pandemic under the infamous Feeding Our Future Program, and the Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) billed through Medicaid. The full extent to which the federal and state governments lost pandemic relief money to fraud schemes may never be ascertained, as new perpetrators continue being found and charged 5 years later. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) managed to charge the 78th person on November 24, 2025, in connection with the Feeding Our Future nonprofit, which participated in defrauding the Federal Child Nutrition Program by running sites that fed a handful of children but inflated the count to thousands and charged the federal program $250 million during the pandemic. Similarly, the US Attorney General in Minnesota announced pressing charges against 8 Somali migrants who dishonestly reported to have assisted numerous clients to enroll in the state Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) and billed Medicaid 8.4 million, in what is now described as Medicaid billing fraud.

These, among other schemes, show how hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money ended up in the hands of Somali immigrants for unexplained reasons. The official story has been that the amount stolen was laundered and used to buy luxury vehicles, properties, and some may have ended up in the hands of Al-Shabaab*.

History of Funding Terrorists

The schemes described above raise suspicion not only for the ease with which the money was disbursed but also for the coincidence (or lack........

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