WASHINGTON (PNN) - December 29, 2025 - After days of mounting outrage from conservatives and independent journalists, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued what many are calling a damage-control statement in response to growing accusations that the Department of Justice (DoJ) allegedly sat on one of the largest fraud scandals in modern Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) history, the billion-dollar Minnesota Somali fraud network that looted taxpayer-funded welfare, daycare, COVID and Medicaid programs.
The statement came only after independent investigative reporter Nick Shirley exposed the staggering scope of the corruption, centered largely in Minnesota’s Somali nonprofit ecosystem, and after conservatives erupted over the apparent lack of urgency from federal authorities while hundreds of millions of dollars vanished.
In her statement, Bondi acknowledged the work of independent journalists and attempted to assure Amerikans that the FPSA DoJ has been quietly investigating the fraud for months.
According to Bondi: ninety-eight individuals have been charged, eighty-five are of Somali descent. More than 60 have already been convicted. She warned lawmakers that “more prosecutions are coming,” adding, “Buckle up.”
Bondi praised FPSA Attorney Daniel Rosen and local Minnesota media for assisting in building cases. Here are a few examples of the cases we have prosecuted with other federal partners like Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.
Scam 1: Feeding Our Future - The largest COVID-19 fraud case charged in the country.
Claimed to serve children millions of free meals during COVID - few, if any, were ever fed. Submitted fake invoices and fake rosters of children purportedly receiving meals. Seventy-eight defendants charged to date, fifty-seven defendants convicted. Seventy-two of the defendants are of Somalian descent, five defendants are currently fugitives in Africa. Millions of taxpayer dollars in fraud proceeds were sent overseas to East Africa and the Middle East. Ultimate price tag? $300-400 million.
In August, we successfully secured the conviction of the Feeding Our Future scheme leader, Abdiaziz Shafii Farah. Farah was sentenced to 28 years in prison and ordered to pay over $47 million in restitution.
Last month, we sentenced Abdimijad Mohamed Nur - another key player in the Feeding Our Future scheme - to 10 years in federal prison and ordered him to pay millions in restitution.
Scam 2: Juror bribery.
Not unlike what you would see in the corrupt Somali judicial system, defendants in the Feeding Our Future case intimidated a cooperating defendant and attempted to bribe jurors. Three defendants delivered a bag containing $120,000 in cash to a juror’s house the night before closing arguments. They promised more money if the jurors voted to acquit all 7 trial defendants. They offered this argument: “We are immigrants; they don’t respect or care about us.”
Scam 2: Juror bribery (continued)
According to the defendants, “[T]he government kept attacking Somali culture… [and] was very racist.” This claim is ludicrous: the government was fighting the unprecedented level of fraud being committed.
Scam 3: Autism treatment Medicaid scheme.
Many defendants from the Feeding Our Future scam also set up fake “autism clinics”. Parents in the Somali community reported their children diagnosed as autistic, brought them into daycares disguised as “clinics,” and received huge financial kickbacks. The state government program underwriting this scam was supposed to cost $20 million. Somehow, it ballooned to $200 million - at taxpayers’ expense.
Scam 4: Medicaid fraud.
Fraudsters identified Minnesota’s Medicaid coverage program for Housing Stabilization Services - a program meant to help people with disabilities, senior citizens, and people with mental illnesses. Then they started sham LLCs and began signing up drug addicts and others in halfway houses for services that were never provided. The program was supposed to cost $2.6 million per year - it exploded to $125 million per year.