By Ray Cardello for December 19, 2025, Season 33 / Post 34

There are two problems I see when I get frustrated over the lack of outrage about the billions of dollars stolen from social safety-net programs in Minnesota and probably beyond. One is that I don’t think fraud generates enough angst toward those who took something by deceptive practices, and the other is the unified effort by the mainstream media to bury this story. In the first week after the story broke about a reported $1 billion in stolen funds in Minnesota, the three major legacy networks devoted a combined zero minutes to the story. This may turn out to be the most significant theft of government money in our history, and ABC, CBS, and NBC did what Minnesota politicians did: they turned a blind eye to the matter.

Fraud may be too complex a concept to understand for most Americans, so let’s call it what it is: stealing, and in this case, stealing to a massive degree. As this case unravels, and it is primarily independent investigative journalists driving the case, it is very clear that this is an enormous effort by the Somali population that was allowed to exist for years by politicians like Walz, Ellison, and Omar, who turned their heads or were actively complicit.

In the case of Walz and Ellison, they ignored the theft out of fear of being labeled racist by the Somali community and losing their support and ultimately, the next election. In Ilan Omar’s case, she is as dirty as those who orchestrated this elaborate scheme. It may also explain how her net worth has grown to over $30 million during her time in Washington, on a salary of $140K.

Ilhan Omar’s record regarding truth and adherence to American law has been well documented, and we do not need to review it again here. Kamala Harris was reportedly warned about Walz’s role in this scheme, yet she chose Walz as her running mate in 2024. She has been tight-lipped and has not gone on the record, condemning the gangster activity of the nearly 200,000 Somalis who have taken over the political landscape. The Somali community has become so powerful that it can silence a Presidential candidate.

Minnesota is the epicenter of the massive plot to steal from virtually every state and federal welfare program. But that is only because it was the first to be discovered by the independent journalists. Similar operations are coming uncovered in Columbus, Ohio, and Lewiston, Maine, which are the homes of two of the largest populations of Somali refugees in the country.

It is not racist to state the proven facts that Somalia is one of the poorest, corrupt, and least educated countries on Earth. Over 90% of Somalis in America are on federal assistance, and the average IQ of Somalis is 85. Why should we expect refugees from this eastern African country to be any different in the United States? In the couple of decades they have been in America, they have learned to game the system, while slowly getting their people into the political scene to a point where they are now in control of some of the areas they inhabit.

This scheme is far too big for local and state authorities to control. With the potential link between Somali populations and the connection to terrorist groups back in Somalia, the Feds and DOJ have to intervene and shut this theft ring down.

The Minnesota situation has caught the attention of President Trump, if not the media, and he has already begun taking steps to shut it down. We can thank the Democrats and NGOs like Catholic Charities for this problem and theft of taxpayer money, but it will take the likes of Donald Trump to solve it, and he will.