THE SOMALI FRAUD MIRAGE

How a bookkeeping crime became a border myth

It stalks cable news.
It eats Medicaid.
It apparently lives inside Minnesota.

And it is… mostly imaginary.

Because what actually happened was not a cultural conspiracy.
It was a reimbursement pipeline collapse.

But pipelines do not make good villains.
People do.

So the story was given a face.
A skin tone.
A religion.
A convenient immigrant silhouette.

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🧾 🏛️ WHAT “FEEDING OUR FUTURE” REALLY WAS

Feeding Our Future was not a Somali charity.

It was a Minnesota nonprofit run by a white executive who controlled a federal money faucet.

Her job was simple:

Approve sites.
Verify meals.
Submit claims.
Collect reimbursements.

Instead, she built a toll booth.

If you wanted federal meal money during Covid, you passed through her.

Some sites served food.
Some did not.
Some inflated numbers.
Some invented children.

The fraud was not about feeding.
It was about billing.

And billing, in America, is where empires are quietly stolen.

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🧭 🧱 WHY SOMALIS WERE IN THE PICTURE

Because Minneapolis has one of the largest Somali communities in the United States.

Because many Somalis run:

• Restaurants

• Cafes

• Community kitchens

• Food nonprofits

Because when Covid hit, those businesses collapsed.

And when Feeding Our Future came knocking with fast federal money, they listened.

Some ran honest sites.
Some lied.
Some are convicted.
Some are not.

That is how crime works.

But fraud clusters around access, not ancestry.

No one says “The White Suburban PPP Ring.”
No one says “The Christian Relief Scam.”
No one says “The Golf Club Loan Launderers.”

But when fraud happens in an immigrant neighborhood, suddenly it becomes a tribal myth.

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🧨 📺 HOW IT TURNED INTO A POLITICAL WEAPON

Trump did not discover fraud.

He discovered a narrative.

Here was the perfect story:

• Black

• Muslim

• Refugee

• Urban

• Receiving government money

It writes itself.

So instead of:

“Pandemic oversight failed catastrophically”

We got:

“Immigrants are stealing your tax dollars”

One sentence leads to reform.
The other leads to raids.

Guess which one they chose.

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🧭 🧠 WHAT THE EVIDENCE ACTUALLY SHOWS

There is real fraud.

There are real convictions.

There are real stolen dollars.

What there is not:

• A Somali conspiracy

• A cultural crime wave

• A community-wide theft operation

What exists is something far more American:

A privatized payment system with no adult supervision.

That is not immigration failure.
That is late-stage capitalism with a clipboard.

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🧨 🚔 WHY MINNESOTA IS NOW A TARGET

Minnesota has:

• Immigrants

• A Democratic governor

• A real fraud case

That makes it a perfect stage set.

You can run raids, freeze funds, and shout “corruption” while never fixing the system that caused it.

The border has moved.

It now runs through Minneapolis.

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🧭 🗺️ THE QUIET TRUTH

Fraud does not care who you pray to.

It cares who signs the check.

And the real scandal is not who opened the meal site.

It is who built a federal pipeline so stupid that anyone with a printer and a pulse could drain it.

That is not a Somali story.

That is an American one.