{"id":99720,"date":"2025-12-30T06:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99720\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:06:10","slug":"minnesota-fraud-probe-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99720\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Fraud Probe \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2025%2F12%2F29%2Fminnesota-fraud-probe%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Minnesota+Fraud+Probe https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2025\/12\/29\/minnesota-fraud-probe\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FBI Director Kash Patel said yesterday the agency was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.join1440.com\/click\/43259737.2611331\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvdXMvZmJpLWludmVzdGlnYXRpbmctbWlubmVzb3RhLWZyYXVkLXNjaGVtZS1kaXJlY3Rvci1zYXlzLTIwMjUtMTItMjgvP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9am9pbjE0NDAmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fcGxhY2VtZW50PW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXNlcl9pZD02NmM0YzczYTVkNzg2NDRiM2FiYmE5OWM\/66c4c73a5d78644b3abba99cB79c47200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reallocating resources<\/a>\u00a0to Minnesota to continue investigating allegations of widespread fraud linked to federally funded programs.<\/p>\n<p>The update came after investigative YouTuber Nick Shirley last week released a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.join1440.com\/click\/43259737.2611331\/aHR0cHM6Ly94LmNvbS9uaWNrc2hpcmxleXkvc3RhdHVzLzIwMDQ2NDI3OTQ4NjI5NjExMjM_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1qb2luMTQ0MCZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9wbGFjZW1lbnQ9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1c2VyX2lkPTY2YzRjNzNhNWQ3ODY0NGIzYWJiYTk5Yw\/66c4c73a5d78644b3abba99cB14c47111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">42-minute documentary<\/a>\u00a0visiting the addresses of day care centers, adult home care companies, and other businesses. Many appeared to be inactive despite claiming millions of dollars in state-distributed taxpayer funds, including from the Education Department and Medicaid. In yesterday\u2019s announcement, Patel noted the FBI\u2019s work dismantling a $250M scheme to siphon pandemic-era food assistance via the Feeding Our Future network (<a href=\"https:\/\/link.join1440.com\/click\/43259737.2611331\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2JzbmV3cy5jb20vbmV3cy93aGF0LXRvLWtub3ctbWlubmVzb3RhLWZyYXVkLXNjYW5kYWwtbW9yZS1jaGFyZ2VzLWZpbGVkLXRydW1wLXdhbHovP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9am9pbjE0NDAmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fcGxhY2VtZW50PW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXNlcl9pZD02NmM0YzczYTVkNzg2NDRiM2FiYmE5OWM\/66c4c73a5d78644b3abba99cB63589205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">see explainer<\/a>). The amount of stolen taxpayer money\u2014from the food aid scheme and others\u2014reportedly exceeds $1B.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 90 people have been indicted and more than 50 convicted to date, many of them of Somali descent. Gov. Tim Walz (D) has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.join1440.com\/click\/43259737.2611331\/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvdHJ1bXAtd2Fsei1taW5uZXNvdGEtc29tYWxpcy1pbW1pZ3JhdGlvbi1mcmF1ZC02Njg3YzA1YWQ0OGZhZjEwNzZjMDYwZWE3YjJjYjQ1OD91dG1fc291cmNlPWpvaW4xNDQwJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3BsYWNlbWVudD1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnVzZXJfaWQ9NjZjNGM3M2E1ZDc4NjQ0YjNhYmJhOTlj\/66c4c73a5d78644b3abba99cB1d9ec1ff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">criticized<\/a>\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s language toward Somali Americans in Minnesota and has sought to defend his administration, which oversaw the distribution of the funds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2025%2F12%2F29%2Fminnesota-fraud-probe%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Minnesota+Fraud+Probe https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2025\/12\/29\/minnesota-fraud-probe\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; FBI Director Kash Patel said yesterday the agency was\u00a0reallocating resources\u00a0to Minnesota to continue investigating allegations of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-99720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}