Treasury probes Minnesota tax dollars allegedly sent to Al-Shabaab
Benefits fraud scandal shakes Minnesota
Fox News host Will Cain details the Minnesota welfare scandal that allegedly funneled money to a Somalia-linked terrorist group on ‘The Will Cain Show.’
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday launched a federal investigation into allegations that Minnesota tax dollars are flowing to the terrorist group Al-Shabaab and Gov. Tim Walz under the Biden administration. Bessent said this claim should be examined urgently.
“According to my instructions @USTreasury Bessent wrote in @POTUS @realdonaldtrumpWe’re moving quickly to ensure Americans’ taxes don’t fund global terrorist acts.
“We will share our findings as our investigations continue,” he added.
REPORT ALLEGES MINNESOTA TAXPAYERS’ DOLLARS WERE TRANSFERRED TO AL-SHABAAB TERROR GROUP
Walz’s office told Fox News Digital that Walz said last week he welcomed an investigation if a connection was found between Minnesota tax dollars and Al-Shabaab.
Last month, an investigation by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo of the Manhattan Institute exposed in a bombshell report a fraud network involving Minnesota’s Medicaid Housing Stability Services program, Feeding Our Future and other organizations.
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Thorpe and Rufo noted that in many cases, members of Minnesota’s Somali community were perpetrators of fraud. They added that federal counterterrorism sources confirmed that millions of dollars in stolen funds were sent back to Somalia, which is how Al-Shabaab obtained the money.
Fox News Digital’s Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.
