If pigs had wings they could fly. Signs lol. Where’s the evidence. Maybe we should move this to the conspiracy theory thread!
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Let’s keep to the topic shall we?
It’s on topic.
Yes there was fraud in Minnesota. I hope it is fully prosecuted. To me this looks like “umm fraud… Minnesota… ILHAN OMAR!” Evidence
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If Trumpers cared about such a vestigial concept like “evidence”, they would have bailed on Dear Leader around the time of his ridiculous, unevidenced claims that Obama isn’t actually a US citizen.
As shown yet again, in this scenario:
Excuse to be racist/xenophobic > evidence
Now that Dear Leader’s star is undoubtedly starting to fade, expect more roll outs of “greatest hits” dopamine rushes of largely baseless and exaggerated conspiracy to keep the psychosis going.
The goal now is to find and squeal about fraud and corruption anywhere except where their noses are inside of. It helps retain any dignity left - in their minds at least.
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Hey if she is involved, she’s involved. She had a contact with several people who have been indicted and convicted.
I’m more concerned with the systemic failure of the government to protect taxpayer dollars.
What’s the big deal?
The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness.
Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people with felonies, accusing them of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government program meant to keep children fed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
At first, many in the state saw the case as a one-off abuse during a health emergency. But as new schemes targeting the state’s generous safety net programs came to light, state and federal officials began to grapple with a jarring reality.
Over the last five years, law enforcement officials say, fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars’ worth of social services that were never provided.
Federal prosecutors say that 59 people have been convicted in those schemes so far, and that more than $1 billion in taxpayers’ money has been stolen in three plots they are investigating. That is more than Minnesota spends annually to run its Department of Corrections. Minnesota’s fraud scandal stood out even in the context of rampant theft during the pandemic, when Americans stole tens of billions through unemployment benefits, business loans and other forms of aid, according to federal auditors.
— New York Times
The Korean immigrants helped newbies set up grocery stores; the Somalis, well, yeah.
What gets me about the diaspora approach is that well, yeah, a lot of families apparently were getting monthly kickbacks for registering the kids in Autism clinics or some shit. So, it isn’t all that unfair to question the community as a whole.
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Of course it’s unfair. I thought we already had totally figured out that collective responsibility is wrong.
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It may be unfair to choose to live in Taiwan rather than Somalia but it’s also common sense.
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I said question, not indict.
More thinking like yours results IMO stuff like this happening in the government.
Optics not the problem. Fraud and corruption and covering it up via asinine anti fascist multiculturalism bullshit is though.
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Nope it can only result in preventing evils that have always followed from concepts of collective responsibility and punishment. Abominations like that need to be squashed out of existence whenever they, yet again, rear their ugly head.
Should be an interesting take, I have to listen tomorrow.
Check out all those anti Biden threads, but crickets about the fraud from the Dumpster whose family net worth has surged billions in less than a year.
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Not much new here. However I stopped after the guy joked about sending your kids to Somali run daycares because where else are you gonna learn how to knife someone? No thanks.
Yet they do address the Somali community issue a bit. It’s a shame that people call out those who do so as racist but I get it. Why stereotype? That said, more Somali communities in the US seem to have been running similar scams.
And I hear rumblings about Washington State.
So when is it OK to say hey, there might just be some endemic corruption problem in the Somali immigrant population?
You can take a Somali out of Somalia but you can’t always take Somalia out of a Somali.
Isn’t that just common sense?
Trump’s Pardons Included Health Care Execs Behind Massive Frauds | Heal CA
The list of some 200 Trump pardons or commutations, most issued as he vacated the White House this week, included at least seven doctors or health care entrepreneurs who ran discredited health care enterprises, from nursing homes to pain clinics. One is a former doctor and California hospital owner embroiled in a massive workers’ compensation kickback scheme that prosecutors alleged prompted more than 14,000 dubious spinal surgeries. Another was in prison after prosecutors accused him of ripping off more than $1 billion from Medicare and Medicaid through nursing homes and other senior care facilities, among the largest frauds in U.S. history.
I wasn’t familiar with the Rick Scott case. How in God’s name did a bottom feeder like him ever get elected to Congress?
Wait. I just answered my own question.