Ex-Vikings captain Jack Brewer opens up on witnessing Somalis flooding luxury stores amid alleged fraud
As the FBI continues to conduct raids on alleged scammers in Minnesota, former Vikings captain Jack Brewer is speaking out about suspicious shopping activity he claims to have witnessed from Somalis in the state.
“You start to see so many Somalis over there buying these luxury items,” Brewer said in an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Saturday in America.”
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Brewer has previously said he saw Somali scammers buying luxury sports cars in his state, describing what he saw in the halls of his state’s shopping malls in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
“They’re not doing very well economically, so you always wonder how they make so much money. They’re at the mall, they’re shopping, they’re at Louis Vuitton stores and they’re buying these things,” Brewer said.
“You wouldn’t expect Somali immigrants who came here, so-called to escape their country, to be this successful. That’s why I always questioned that. And when you started looking, it all started to make sense.”
Brewer was a standout special teams player and team captain for the Minnesota Vikings. Signed as a free agent, he played in 15 games in 2002, leading the team in special teams tackles and securing his first career interception against Green Bay. He was appointed team captain in 2003.
In early January, shortly after allegations of fraud became a widespread national story, Brewer recalled seeing allegations of fraud at Maserati dealerships.
“You go to one of them and they have a Bentley and Maserati dealerships in Minnesota. I know because I’ve done business with them and been supported by them as an athlete,” Brewer told Fox News Digital in January.
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“Now you get in there and some of their main customers are Somali hustlers who buy high-end cars in a state with four months of sunshine and good weather. They’re driving around sports cars at the expense of American taxpayers, like you might see in Beverly Hills or South Beach Miami.”
Minneapolis and St. The Somali population in St. Paul increased significantly in the early to mid-1990s due to the influence of refugees fleeing Somalia’s civil war; significant numbers arrived after 1991 and continued into the 2000s.
The collapse of the Somali government in 1991 led to widespread conflict that led to millions of people fleeing the country. At the time, Brewer was just a kid in Grapevine, Texas. When he transferred from SMU to the University of Minnesota, the Somali population was estimated at approximately 15,000 people. Minnesota State Demographic Center.
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When Brewer joined the Minnesota Vikings in 2002, at least 5,123 Minnesota students reported speaking Somali as their primary language at home. National Institutes of Health.
Currently, the population of Minnesota and Somalia is under the spotlight for welfare and Medicaid fraud, including a massive $300 million pandemic fraud case involving the nonprofit Feeding Our Future. This incident drew renewed national attention in 2025, when convictions piled up and the state became a flashpoint. Trump administration broader “war on fraud.”
“A lot of people want to use race and color and all these different things, but when you start looking at the population, people need to come here to work,” Brewer said Saturday. he said. “You don’t come here and rob a nation…
“This is not about race, this is about the culture of the people who came here, a country, and they worked with people in America, liberals in America taught them how to steal from the US government.”
Viking linebacker Jack Brewer works with a group of female volunteers on kickoff mechanics during a seminar held by the Minnesota Vikings at Winter Park in Eden Prairie, Minn., on Oct. 12, 2002. Brewer appeared alongside special teams coach Jay Hayes to handle the kickoff. (Getty Images)
Federal authorities raided more than 20 locations in Minneapolis on Tuesday, including child care facilities. Comprehensive fraud investigation Sources confirmed to Fox News that it is largely focused on Somali-owned businesses.
Authorities executed 22 federal search warrants in Minnesota Tuesday morning as part of the operation. immigration related.
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The raids focus on federal fraud investigations into largely Somali-owned businesses, including child care facilities that registered their daycares with the state but allegedly billed for care that was not provided.
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