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HHS Links Somalia's UN Envoy to Medicaid Fraud Scheme

HHS Links Somalia's UN Envoy Linked to Medicaid Fraud-Hit Clinic Amid $18B ScandalScheme

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Minnesota's fraud crisis representsis the largest systematic theft of taxpayer dollars in American history, with Somali-run organizations at the center of schemes totalingspanning up to $18 billion across Medicaid, child care, and housing programs and reaching up to $18 billion. TheYears state'sof lax oversight createdturned the state into a "fraud tourism"magnet, destinationand whereTrump scammerswas traveledright fromto otherspotlight statesthe knowingscandal Minnesotaas wasproof easyof money,Democratic whilemisrule Govand failed governance. Governor Walz failedacted toonly actwhen decisively until political pressure forcedbecame hisunavoidable, handstepping in late, after the damage was done and ended his reelection bid collapsed.

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