Treasury Investigating if Minnesota Tax Dollars Funded al-Shabaab in Somalia
“Thanks to the leadership of @POTUS @realDonaldTrump, we are acting fast to ensure Americans’ taxes are not funding acts of global terror.”
On Monday night, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the department had launched an investigation into allegations that Minnesota tax dollars went to al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia.
Bessent wrote on X:
At my direction, @USTreasury is investigating allegations that under the feckless mismanagement of the Biden Administration and Governor Tim Walz, hardworking Minnesotans’ tax dollars may have been diverted to the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab.
Thanks to the leadership of @POTUS @realDonaldTrump, we are acting fast to ensure Americans’ taxes are not funding acts of global terror.
We will share our findings as our investigation continues.
At my direction, @USTreasury is investigating allegations that under the feckless mismanagement of the Biden Administration and Governor Tim Walz, hardworking Minnesotans’ tax dollars may have been diverted to the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab.
Thanks to the leadership of… https://t.co/uillMknuXL
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) December 1, 2025
Ryan Thorp and Christopher Rufo dropped the allegations on November 19.
“In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota’s sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab,” wrote Thorp and Rufo. “As one confidential source put it: ‘The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.’”
The fraud in Thorp and Rufo’s report centered around Minnesota’s medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program:
It was designed with “low barriers to entry” and “minimal requirements for reimbursement.” Nonetheless, before the program went live in 2020, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at $2.6 million.
Costs quickly spiraled out of control. In 2021, the program paid out more than $21 million in claims. In the following years, annual costs shot up to $42 million, then $74 million, then $104 million. During the first six months of 2025, payouts totaled $61 million.
On August 1, Minnesota’s Department of Human Services moved to scrap the HSS program, noting that payment to 77 housing-stabilization providers had been terminated this year due to “credible allegations of fraud.” Joe Thompson, then the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, went even further, stating that the “vast majority” of the HSS program was fraudulent.
On September 18, Thompson announced criminal indictments for HSS fraud against Moktar Hassan Aden, Mustafa Dayib Ali, Khalid Ahmed Dayib, Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, Christopher Adesoji Falade, Emmanuel Oluwademilade Falade, Asad Ahmed Adow, and Anwar Ahmed Adow—six of whom, according a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesperson, are members of Minnesota’s Somali community. Thompson made clear that this is just the first round of charges for HSS fraud that his office will be prosecuting.
As Ben wrote on Sunday, The New York Times followed up over the weekend with Minnesota Department of Human Services Staff Fraud Reporting Commentary stating that Gov. Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s running mate, “is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota.”
“We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response,” the employees continued. “Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation by Tim Walz, certain DFL members and an indifferent mainstream media. It’s scary, isolating and left us wondering who we can turn to.”
The employees alerted everyone that they had told Harris and the DNC about Walz, including accusations of retaliating against whistleblowers.
For public awareness, we did write to Kamala Harris and the DNC – multiple times – warning them about Tim Walz & his incompetence, fraud scandals and retaliation. We tried our best to keep the public informed as our tweets are public. Maybe Kamala Harris turned a blind eye to… https://t.co/Cs6nk1hXek
— Minnesota Staff Fraud Reporting Commentary (@Minnesota_DHS) December 1, 2025
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To think that we were this 🤌🏻 close to having this corrupt clown as our Vice President is truly frightening.
The proper job for Tampon Tim is as a speed bump in the local Walmart parking lot, not as a governor.
Waltz would have been the successor to the most corrupt VP ever, Joe Biden. Both of them make Spiro Agnew look like a saint.
Paradise has been paved over and replaced with solar panels or a data center.
I made this very comment Sunday that the Treasury Department needs to investigate Waltz and Minnesota. I can’t believe that there were no red flags raised about the money transfers to Somalia. The financial crimes unit should have flagged them. Unless they were under orders to ignore them. Those orders could have only come from the Biden Administration.
Why now though? Its been a known thing for quite some time (especially if you are a powerlineblog reader). What has given it traction at this late date?
Who cares about the traction? Better now, then never. Both Walz and Omar should be removed from office without delay.
While I dont disagree, rushing headlong into an action without contemplating strategy is foolishness.
Traction because of a superb federal prosecutor, Joseph Thompson!!!!!
Powerline bloggers Scott Johnson and Bill Glahn most likely provided critical info.
Is that Walz in the picture? Or Biden? With that facial expression it’s hard to tell!
John Brennan also has a similar look on his face most the time… it looks like “whoops, that was a shart”
Looks like Don Rickles caught in the headlights.
The whole lot should do prison time.
Some, after prison, should be deported.
One thing for sure. We can’t let this lot of dems regain power….ever or we’re truly screwed.
Hanged as traitors for giving aid and comfort to our enemies. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed despite us not being in a declared war with the Soviet Union. Tim Walz hates America and will support those who wish us ill. Doesn’t matter if they are communists or Islamists.
Do not fall for Tampon Tim’s befuddled innocent ploy.
Deport Walz to China.
How can a governor NOT know about one billion $$ going missing.
Outrageous.
Start with investigating Ilhan Omar, deporting her and then impeaching Walz. Of course, all that depends on living in a perfect world.
Happens all the time when democrats are involved. DeNutso, the ex mayor of NYC hired his wife and gave her a billion or more to spend and she promptly misplaced it.
Pam Bondi will do nothing
Why is the press framing this as the Minnesota tax payers being defrauded? These programs that the Somali fraudsters abused are largely backed by Federal grant money… they ripped the entire country off and I guarantee you they were laughing the @sses off the entire time. Kick them all out… their society is incompatible with ours.
Indeed. Eliminate the ‘pull’ of migration by eliminating the economic incentives. End Federal funding to NGOs. Disallow NGOs from transferring funds among themselves to each other and while keeping a preferential tax status. End Federal funding of programs where eligibility is administered by States. Return the ‘public charge’ rule to prominence by explicitly forbidding any alien from eligibility for ANY direct Federal benefits of any kind, including refundable tax credits and programs administered by States which receive any Federal funding.
We are constantly lectured by lefty Karens that these ‘immigrants’ want a shot at the American Dream …cool let them come legally by gaining permission before arrival and without support from Federal taxpayers. Let the leftist Karens open up their own wallets if they want to be charitable but keep their paws off everyone else’s $.
As the late, great Milton Friedman once famously said “You can have open borders. Or you can have a welfare state. But you can’t have both.”
I agree with you…enforcing the ‘public charge’ rule would make an enormous difference.
“Lo siento, chicos, se les ha secado la teta. Ya no hay leche. No tienen que irse a casa, pero ya no pueden quedarse aquí.”
Not a face whose owner I would ask which wire to cut when diffusing a bomb.
Everyone involved in that fraud should be brought up on charges for supporting a recognized terrorist group.
We can take a page from Commie Walz’s book. Just execute them now and we can think up the crime and convict them later.
I used to joke that Trump deserved a spot on Mt Rushmore just for keeping Hillary from ever being President.
Now, it appears he deserves two spots on Mt Rushmore – with the 2nd being for keeping Harris/Walz from ever being President/VP.
The amount of damage prevented vastly outweighs the contributions of the four Presidents currently honored there.
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