KEY POINTS

Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services program ballooned from $2.3 million to over $300 million amid widespread fraud involving fictitious companies and over-billing.

A parallel $300 million child-nutrition scheme saw perpetrators steal federal funds for personal luxuries, with key figures sentenced for fraud and attempted jury bribery.

Investigators report that significant remittance flows from Somali communities in the U.S., especially Minnesota, are vulnerable to diversion into Somali hawala networks that ultimately benefit Al-Shabaab.

Loosely regulated social benefits services in Minnesota have resulted in massive fraud, according to the Department of Justice .

By 2024, Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services program was spending 3,900% more annually than it wa

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