You’ve probably heard the news by now: Minnesota fraudsters stole over $1 billion from Medicaid. And you deserve an explanation.
Our staff at CMS told me they’ve never seen anything like this in Medicaid — and everyone from Gov. Tim Walz on down needs to be investigated, because they’ve been asleep at the wheel. Based on what we know now, this is a clear dereliction of duty.
First, the facts:
In recent years, Minnesota Medicaid launched several new programs, including Housing Stabilization Services, which helped disabled homeless individuals, and Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention, which reimbursed therapy costs for families with autistic children.
Some bad actors in Minnesota’s Somali community decided to game the system. And when they got away with it, they decided to go bigger.
The housing program was supposed to cost $2.6 million dollars annually. Last year, it paid out over $100 million. The autism program ballooned from $3 million in 2018 to nearly $400 million in 2023.
These scammers used stolen taxpayer money to buy flashy cars, purchase overseas real estate, and offer kickbacks to parents who enrolled their kids at fake autism treatment centers. Some of it may have even made its way to the Somalian terrorist group Al-Shebab.
So why didn’t Walz stop them?
That’s simple: because he went all-in on identity politics.
Somalis are a huge voting bloc, and the state’s leaders were afraid that “forcefully tackling this issue might cause political backlash.” That’s not me saying that. It’s a Somali-American fraud investigator who talked to The New York Times.
Somali scammers get rich off the programs Gov. Walz was supposed to be managing. Minnesota politicians get elected with Somali votes and keep the money flowing. This isn’t just fraud: it’s political patronage at public expense.
When Minnesota told CMS about the problem last year, they assured us they’d handle it. By summer, it was obvious they couldn’t — or wouldn’t. So, we stepped in and shut down the worst program: housing. We also froze provider enrollment in a few of the most abused programs.
So where do we go from here?
To restore the integrity of the Medicaid program, Minnesota must:
1. Provide CMS with weekly updates on how the state is stopping fraud.
2. Freeze enrollment of all high-risk providers for 6 months.
3. Confirm all providers in place are legitimate or remove them.
4. Send CMS a corrective action plan of how these will prevent this from happening again.
If we’re unsatisfied with the state’s plans or cooperation, we’ll stop paying the federal share of these programs.
The message to Walz is clear: either fix this in 60 days or start looking under your couch for spare change, because we’re done footing the bill for your incompetence.
With CMS on the case, these scammers and their bureaucratic enablers have nowhere left to hide. The vulnerable Americans who depend on these programs — and the taxpayers who fund them — deserve the truth.
If only people had listened to @LewisforMN’s warning about the fraud in Minnesota back then. The Democrat who replaced him in 2018, @AngieCraigMN, certainly hasn’t been concerned about the fraud.
🚨 INFURIATING: They KNEW about massive Somali fraud in 2014.
Somali daycare — $100 MILLION missing!
“…using the money to set up fraudulent childcare clients, then providing a kickback. This is a major issue!”
Unbelievable.
Former Minnesota Rep Jason Lewis in 2014 described Somali daycare fraud as a "major issue" and said over $100 million dollars was missing
He says the Somalians were flying the money out of the country, he even gave what airport they were using
Nothing was done
“I'm in a situation in my home state of Minnesota where we've got a number of daycare providers that are openly violating federal and state laws and regulations, taking money for personal use, using the money to set up a fraudulent childcare client, and then providing a kickback has been reported. This is a major issue.
— We have a fraud case of nearly 100 million in this state with money then being transferred out of the country via MSP airport.”
Welcome to Western Europe buddy, if you want to feel safe on big city streets you’ll have to go 1000 km to the east to Poland, they’ve been very careful, and vocal, to not repeat the same mistake ;-) 
New evidence shows that the CIA set up the entire Russia Hoax.
Former CIA Director, Brennan, targeted Trump. He identified 26 Trump associates to be targeted by the Five Eyes Intelligence Agencies.
The details of this entire top-secret operation were stored in a "secret binder." And now that secret "binder" may be missing. The FBI raided Mar-a-logo to find the "binder." That binder holds evidence of the illegal conduct by the Obama Admin. It's all coming out.
⚽️WATCH🇺🇸
Yesterday, world leaders, international soccer legends, NFL and NBA superstars, Hollywood A-listers, supermodels, and Grammy-winning performers converged on the iconic Kennedy Center for the star-studded 2026 FIFA World Cup draw.
It was an incredible display of global unity at the nation’s performing arts center.
THE DEATH OF FREE SPEECH IN EUROPE - HOW THE HELL DID WE GET HERE?
Free speech used to be Europe’s pride. People died for it. Dissidents were jailed for it. Movements rose because of it. Now? It’s being strangled with bureaucratic red tape, polite language, and massive fines disguised as virtue.
This week, the European Commission hit X with a €120 million fine under the Digital Services Act. The crime? Letting anyone buy a blue check. Seriously. Because in the technocratic minds of Brussels, a blue check is apparently a gateway drug to authoritarianism. Forget debating ideas - just crush the platform with the most dissent. Problem solved.
But it’s not just about Elon or X. Europe is making it clear: the new gatekeepers of truth wear suits, speak seventeen official languages, and love a good compliance report. These people don’t want open discourse - they want algorithmic harmony. The message is simple: post what we like, how we like, when we like - or else.
And that “or else” is getting scarier by the day. Romania annulled its presidential election - not because of fraud, but because of alleged “foreign interference.” Vague intel claims TikTok influencers (yes, TikTok) swayed voters toward an outsider. In response, the EU cheered while democracy faceplanted into the pavement. Apparently, democracy only counts when it votes the way Brussels wants.
“Foreign interference” has become the ultimate get-out-of-accountability card. It’s the censorship Swiss army knife. Don’t like a political movement? Call it Russian. Don’t like a meme? Blame it on bots. Want to shut down a conversation? Call it disinformation and let the regulators steamroll in. No evidence needed, just vibes - and a desire to silence anything that smells off-message.
The UK isn’t far behind either. It left the EU but seems hell-bent on keeping up with its worst instincts. More speech laws, more internet policing, and a growing appetite to criminalize “offensive” content. Apparently, Orwell didn’t write a warning - he wrote a policy proposal.
And so the question becomes: where is free speech actually free?
Enter the U.S - messy, loud, divided, chaotic. But still, by some miracle, clinging to the idea that speech isn’t something the government should regulate like it’s a tap. Sure, there are mobs, there’s cancel culture, there’s corporate cowardice - but at least the First Amendment still means something. At least here, regulators don’t get to decide which opinions are allowed based on EU-style “safety” checklists.
The sad truth is that Europe has become the land where speech goes to die - smothered under the weight of noble intentions and authoritarian execution. And if we don’t push back, that mindset won’t stop at X. It won’t stop at Romania. It won’t stop until debate itself is treated like a threat.
We got here because our leaders stopped trusting people and started trusting power. We stayed here because it’s easier to comply than to question. But if speech isn’t free, then neither are we. And if Europe keeps this up, it won’t be defending democracy - it’ll be embalming it.