THE GREAT MINNESOTA HEIST

How a Billion Dollars Vanished from America’s “Bluest” Welfare State

December 4, 2025 – Minneapolis, Minnesota

Picture this: a state famous for its delicious hot-dish casseroles, ice fishing, and “Minnesota Nice” suddenly becomes the scene of the largest welfare fraud in American history. Over $1 billion — gone. Phantom daycares that never fed a single child. Fake autism clinics. Ghost housing programs. Luxury cars parked outside Section 8 apartments.

And in the middle of it all, a cultural bombshell dropped by one of the most respected Somali intellectuals in America:

“Somali culture is built atop stealing from dysfunctional governments.” — Dr. Ahmed Ismail Samatar, Macalester College professor emeritus and former Somali presidential candidate.

Those words, delivered in recent radio appearances, have lit the internet on fire. Because what began as a bureaucratic scandal has exploded into something far bigger: a lethal collision between a war-forged survival ethic and the richest, most trusting, most Democrat-run welfare systems on the planet.

This isn’t happening in Texas. It isn’t happening in Florida. It’s happening in deep-blue America — and the pattern is impossible to ignore.

The Perfect Storm: Generosity Meets Survival Hustle

Minnesota didn’t just welcome Somali refugees — it built them a golden escalator of benefits. Free healthcare, cash assistance, food programs, housing subsidies, and during COVID, virtually zero verification.

Bring in a diaspora shaped by thirty years of clan warfare and collapsed states, where “taking from a failed government” isn’t theft — it’s just another day. Transplant that mindset into a state terrified of being called racist, and you don’t get integration. You get a billion-dollar vacuum cleaner.

Dr. Samatar put it bluntly on the Brian Kilmeade Show (Dec 3, 2025): “In Somalia, if the state is predatory or absent, extracting from it isn’t immoral — it’s redistribution. Bring that worldview to Minnesota, where the state money flows like the Mississippi and nobody wants to look too closely, and you have the perfect storm.”

The Numbers That Will Make Your Blood Boil

Scheme	Money Stolen	How They Did It	Convictions / Pleas
Feeding Our Future (fake meals)	$250 million - $1 billion	300+ pop-up “sites” claimed to feed millions of kids who never existed	78 charged, 59 guilty
Medicaid kickback rings	$100+ million	Recruit parents, fake diagnoses, split the cash	20+
Housing “stabilization” fraud	$150-250+ million	Claim people were homeless, pocket the rent money	8 (mostly Somali)
Autism therapy scams	$10+ million	Certify healthy kids as severely autistic	5+
TOTAL	OVER $1 BILLION	Clan networks + zero audits + fear of “Islamophobia” accusations	86 charged, 50+ guilty

Only $75 million recovered. The rest bought Lamborghinis, Nairobi mansions, and millions wired overseas through hawala and (allegedly) directly into the coffers of al-Shabaab, a designated terrorist group. Federal charges of financing a terrorist organization may be pending.

The Blue-State Pattern Nobody Wants to Talk About

This isn’t random. Look where the big Somali fraud explosions happen:

State	Political Control	Somali Population	Known Fraud Losses	Notes
Minnesota	Democrat trifecta	80,000+	$1B+	Deep-blue “Minnesota Nice” + zero oversight
California	Democrat trifecta	10,000–15,000	Emerging ($5–10M+)	San Diego hub; CalFresh & Medi-Cal probes into kickback schemes; low visibility due to state's massive $30B+ annual welfare budget
Washington	Democrat trifecta	20,000+	$5–10M+	Seattle’s “high-trust” model
Maine	Democrat trifecta (until Jan ’26)	7,000+	$10M+ & rising	Lewiston = mini-Minneapolis
Ohio (urban)	GOP governor, Dem cities	50,000	$10M+ Medicaid scam	Fraud concentrated in blue Columbus
Texas	GOP trifecta	<10,000	Negligible	Strict audits + work requirements
Florida	GOP trifecta	<5,000	Negligible	DeSantis-era fraud unit claws back hundreds of millions annually

Conclusion: 98% of documented large-scale Somali-linked welfare fraud occurs in states with long-term Democratic control of the governor’s mansion and legislature. Red states simply don’t offer the same buffet and when they do, they are more likely to catch fraud, they prosecute fast and hard.

The Politician, the Gun, and the Condemned Drug House

On December 2, 2025, Iman Osman, a 35-year-old Somali migrant and newly elected Lewiston, Maine, city councilor (November 2025), was indicted on two felony counts: receiving stolen property and theft by unauthorized taking of a firearm. Osman, a Lewiston School Committee member since 2023, allegedly possessed a stolen handgun traced to a 2024 burglary. The case emerged from a traffic stop and search warrant.

• Details: Court documents show Osman lived at a condemned Blake Street address (raided for drugs in October 2024), raising residency questions for his council seat. No direct drug charges, but the building's history suggests proximity to trafficking.

• Possible Drug Links: Local reports tie Lewiston's Somali community to rising fentanyl ops (e.g., December 2025 Auburn bust seizing 1.2kg cocaine). Osman's links to drug trafficking are unproven. Maine's $10M+ Medicaid fraud issues fuels speculation of broader criminal ties, but prosecutors are focusing on gun charges. Community leaders decry it as stigmatizing, as reported by Portland, ME CBS affiliate WGME.

Osman pleads not guilty, trial pending. If convicted, he faces removal from office and 5-10 years in prison.

Trump Drops the Hammer — And He’s Starting in the Blue States

President Trump didn’t waste time:

• November 21: Ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalis

• December 1: 100 extra ICE agents descend on Minneapolis

• December 2: Called the fraudsters “garbage” on national television

• December 3: Treasury & SBA launch parallel investigations into terror financing and PPP loans

  
  

The Question Everyone Is Whispering

If a respected Somali professor openly says his culture views looting failed states as morally neutral… and we then import that culture into the richest, most generous, most Democrat run welfare states on earth… whose fault is it when the vault gets cleaned out?

The answer isn’t racism. It’s a catastrophic policy failure born of one-party progressive rule.

Minnesota wanted to be the most compassionate state in America. Instead, it became the biggest mark for fraudsters. The money is gone. The trials continue. And the reckoning has only just begun.