U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday 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 al-Shabaab, which the U.S. State Department has designated as a terrorist organization.

Soon after that report was published on Nov. 19, President Donald Trump ended temporary legal protections for hundreds of Somali immigrants in Minnesota.

State Republicans then called on federal officials to investigate in letters to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Now there is a cabi

See Full Page