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HHS Links Somalia's UN Envoy to Medicaid Fraud Scheme

HHS Links Somalia's UN Envoy to Medicaid Fraud Scheme

Above: Somali UN ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman speaks at a ceremony for the five new elected members of the Security Council in his capacity as president of the Security Council for January and co-host, at the UN headquarters, New York, January 2, 2025. Image credit: Wang Fan/China News Service/VCG/Getty Images

The Spin

Minnesota’s fraud crisis is the largest systematic theft of taxpayer dollars in American history, with Somali-run organizations at the center of schemes spanning Medicaid, child care, and housing programs and reaching up to $18 billion. Years of lax oversight turned the state into a fraud magnet, and Trump was right to spotlight the scandal as proof of Democratic misrule and failed governance. Governor Walz acted only when political pressure became unavoidable, stepping in late, after the damage was done and his reelection bid collapsed.

Allegations involving Somalia’s UNU.N. ambassador are serious but require further investigation and verified findings. By contrast, federal prosecutors’ claims of massive fraud rely largely on speculation, with state investigators demanding evidence for assertions that half of $18 billion is fraudulent. What has followed instead are targeted attacks on Minnesota’s Somali community driven by unverified social media claims, while the Trump administration uses fraud rhetoric to freeze child care funding, harming working families.

Metaculus Prediction

There is a 41.6% chance that the U.S. federal government will pass legislation by 2040 to provide universal healthcare for American citizens, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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