US EditionTreasury investigating tax fraud allegations in Minnesota, Bessent says
The Treasury Department investigates claims that fraud schemes involving Minnesota social-service programs funneled millions of taxpayer dollars overseas, with some allegedly reaching Al-Shabaab, officials said.
- On Monday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced in a social-media post that the Treasury has opened an investigation at President Donald Trump's direction.
- Last month, a Manhattan Institute/City Journal investigation alleged large-scale fraud in Minnesota social-service programs, with stolen funds moved overseas to Somalia and some reaching al-Shabab, federal sources said.
- Federal prosecutors have brought dozens of criminal cases accusing defendants of creating shell companies, inflating service claims and exploiting vulnerable Minnesotans, with many indicted from Minnesota's Somali community.
- Minnesota state officials have shut down implicated programs, Gov. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, welcomed an investigation last week, and President Trump ended temporary protected status for Somalis on Nov. 21 citing fraud allegations.
- The Treasury said it will share findings and release additional information as the investigation develops, framing the probe as protecting taxpayers from funding global terrorism.
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Treasury Department investigating claims Minn. fraud funded terrorists
ST. PAUL — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday, Dec. 1, said his department is investigating a claim that money stolen from the state of Minnesota through fraud helped fund a Somalia-based terrorist group. An unconfirmed report from a conservative think tank published earlier this month alleged that some of the hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from Minnesota in recent years ended up in the hands of the Islamist militant group a…
"The Treasury Department is investigating allegations that, under the negligent management of the Biden Administration and Governor Tim Walz, Minnesota workers' tax money may have been diverted to the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
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