{"id":611341,"date":"2026-04-28T14:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/611341\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:09:09","slug":"federal-law-enforcement-is-conducting-raids-connected-to-investigation-into-alleged-somali-fraud-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/611341\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal law enforcement is conducting raids connected to investigation into alleged Somali fraud in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal law enforcement agencies are conducting a series of raids connected to the investigation into alleged welfare fraud in Minnesota on Tuesday morning, federal authorities have said. <\/p>\n

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The raids are not part of an immigration enforcement operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,\u201d a spokesperson for the Justice Department said. <\/p>\n

At least 22 federal search warrants were executed in Minnesota on Tuesday morning, a senior Justice Department official told NBC News. It was not immediately clear how many total raids occurred.<\/p>\n

At least one of the raids appears to be at the Somali Senior Center and Adult Day Services facility, as federal law enforcement can be seen going in and out of the building.<\/p>\n

The facility did not answer a call from NBC News on Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., thanked the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security \u201cfor taking action against Somali fraudsters\u201d in a statement Tuesday. <\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump and his administration have made it crystal clear \u2014 our country will not tolerate waste, fraud, and abuse, and we are not going to allow people to take advantage of Americans\u2019 generosity,\u201d Emmer said. \u201cMinnesotans and U.S. taxpayers across the nation are grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal law enforcement agencies are conducting a series of raids connected to the investigation into alleged welfare fraud…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-611341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}