Everything about the Minnesota fraud scandal is horrifying.

It is shocking that armies of scammers — almost all Somali immigrants — were able to pilfer so much money from the American taxpayer.

These con artists created sham nonprofits and billed the state for services they never actually provided.

One of them, Feeding Our Future, promised to put food into the bellies of hungry kids.

In reality it just put money — the American people’s money — into the bulging bank accounts of Somali swindlers.

The grifters milked a billion dollars from the state. They lived lavish lifestyles on the back of the cash they stole from hard-working Americans.

Some of the plundered money was sent back to Somalia, where it ended up in the coffers of Al-Shabaab — the Al- Qaeda-linked terror group.

And all of this happened under the nose of Gov. Tim Walz. It’s  — a scandal of epic proportions.

Yet for me, there’s one aspect of this industrial-scale robbery of the American people that feels especially chilling: It’s this: When officials raised concerns about one of the Somali scams, the scammers threatened to publicly brand them as “racist.”

You will be tarred with the brush of “racism,” the fraudsters warned, and it will be........

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