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The $250 million ‘Feeding Our Future’ free food fraud in which Somali groups stole a quarter of a billion dollars while claiming to feed hundreds of thousands of children who never existed seemed like the biggest case of welfare fraud in Minnesota, but it may be just the beginning.
Somali autism fraud, partly linked to the ‘Feeding Our Future’ scam, may be even bigger and after the FBI raids of autism clinics last December, the scale of it is still being put together.
The pattern in both Somali meals for children and autism treatment for children is similar.
In 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed $3.4 million in taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020, that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021.
EIDBI autism claims to Medicaid in Minnesota similarly shot up from $3 million in 2018 to $54 million in 2019, $77 million in 2020, $183 million in 2021, $279 million in 2022, $399 million in 2023, and nearing $400 million most of the way through 2024 for a total of over $1.4 billion.
How did autism claims rise from $3 million to $400 million a year in just 4 years?
The number of autism providers shot up 700% from 41 to 328 over 5 years. 1 in 16 Somali four-year-olds (6%) were supposedly suffering from autism leading to a mass demand for services. Somalis had accused the Minnesota Department of Human Services of racism, and protested outside its offices to pressure it into providing funding for the $250 million ‘Feeding Our Future’ and similarly launched a pressure campaign to sign off on the autism fraud.
Somali community groups set up their own autism treatment centers to provide diverse “culturally appropriate programming” and Somali kids were seven times more likely to receive autism treatment than other children. Whistleblowers at the Minnesota Department of Human Services report that 1 in 5 autism centers in the state are now under investigation.
In the 85 investigations, of the 5 closed cases last year, all of them involved Somalis including apparently Sharmarke Issa, the former chair of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority who pleaded guilty over his involvement in the Feeding Our Future fraud.
Some of the autism clinics double dipped by also signing up to hand out meals to children. Smart Therapy, one of the autism clinics raided by the FBI, received $13 million from Medicaid and also signed up with Feeding Our Future to get ‘reimbursements’ from the government for allegedly feeding 300 kids a day for seven days a week which by 2021 was up to 500 kids.
The emails listed in the federal complaint appeared to be signed by Aisha Hassan, the CEO and President of Smart Therapy. The autism center was allegedly working with S&S Catering, whose owner Qamar Ahmed Hassan, took in $13 million in government money and then wrote checks to a travel agency specializing in Islamic tours of Mecca as part of the Feeding Our Future fraud. It’s unknown if Qamar Hassan and Asha Hassan are related, but a whistleblower told investigators that another Smart Therapy owner was indeed related to Qamar Hassan.
A Smart Therapy whistleblower stated that the employees were teenage family members of the owners with no training, spent all day on their phones, that the children were not autistic, and that their parents were paid to sign them up for ‘treatment’ with envelopes full of cash.
Star Autism Center, also raided by the FBI, billed Medicaid for 21.5 hours of autism therapy from one therapist in one day. Another billed 23 hours of services in a single day. Star’s organizer, Abdinajib Hassan Yussuf, claimed to know nothing. Both centers billed for treatments being provided by its ‘therapists’ while they were in Kenya (which hosts a large Somali migrant population) and Turkey which serves as a center for Islamic terrorist migration. Including ISIS.
It is difficult to know the full scale of the Somali autism fraud, but troublingly DHS Assistant Commissioner Natasha Merz had claimed that the catastrophic growth of the state’s autism program has been “pretty consistent” with other DHS programs including housing and disability funding. That means that the fraud we know could be only the tip of a massive iceberg.
For example, Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) was budgeted at $2.6 million when it was launched in 2020 but by 2024, was expected to hit $120 million. The sheer scale of welfare fraud under the Walz administration is so severe that hundreds of millions of dollars can easily vanish across the board without anyone even noticing because it’s no longer an aberration.
Under Gov. Tim Walz, it’s become routine for welfare programs to shoot up from the millions to the hundreds of millions. “Well, I think you’re always accountable for when things happen, but I think the accountability piece that we’re going to have to try and understand,” Walz replied, when asked about Minnesota’s spiraling welfare fraud crisis. “The question is, in state government, our job is to carry out the programs to try and get the resources to the people who need them.”
While Gov. Walz may act baffled, he and his political allies in the DFL chose to roll money out the door to Somali groups, while eliminating accountability and avoiding any scrutiny out of fear of racism. Between Attorney General Keith X. Ellison and DHS Inspector General Kulani Moti, a former public defender and the daughter of the first ‘Oromo’ immigrant from East Africa to move to Minnesota, sensitivity has been a priority, rigorous enforcement has not.
Somalis were already caught stealing tens of millions of dollars in various unrelated Medicaid health care frauds including $20 million in fraud in 2023 alone. This year there’s already been a Somali $7 million fraud conviction. But without federal investigations, these are just a fraction of the abuses being caught at the state level, even as the massive systematic fraud goes on.
Somali fraud now appears to equal half the budgets for the Twin Cities. How big can the fraud get before Minnesota runs out of money?
These people are barbarians at best and need permanently deported or exiled!
nothing will be done no knee grows will go to jail and the money will keep flowing from gov timpon walz. imagine this article written by a jew whose tribesmen facilitate non white immigration
Do you consider Edward Kennedy (current location somewhere low and very hot) “a tribesman” of a Jew? He pushed relentlessly for “non white immigration”.
I understan the Canadian Socialist Government allows itself to be fooled in a similar way with schools and parents joining hands to claim many normal children are autistic if they have comparatively poor grades in schools!
well the name of the group sounded good and it ahd children in the name so its worth any amount of money into the community
right
Leftists always talk about “the children, the children” – and in virtually every instance they hurt, harm, abuse, groom or manipulate “the children”. And ALWAYS they profit off of them.
The State knows exactly what is going on. This is all part of the replacement.
sand savages doing what sand savages do, congrats Met Council for bringing 50,000 of then here so they could NOT assimilate but instead try to create a moo slime “paradise” in the heart of America… Phook ’em Danno!
Their just plain old thieves stealing from those Gullible enough to believe their fake stories just like the M.S. Media
Autism always seemed like a suspicious condition, vague symptoms, hard to diagnose, ripe for fraud.
Well, yes and no. I encountered a number of people diagnosed with autism in classes I taught over the years and it was apparent that they were very different; so, easy to identify that something was amiss. Yet they were different in highly variable ways; so, as you say, vague. Incredible abilities in certain ways, no ability in others — most often in interpersonal communication. A less polite term is something like “idiot savant”. Often they had goals in life that did not use their considerable skills to any advantage.
Apparently the only oversight government does with our money is to make sure we taxpayers keep sending it in.,
Ship ALL Somalis back to their home country. ALL..
I know you shouldn’t “judge a book by it’s cover”, but DANG – that book is like UNBELIEVABLY CORRUPT! Every “immigrant” should be returned! Any “Naturalized” should be investigated and THEN shipped home! NO ONE from Somalia should be allowed to enter the USA! There’s too much precedence of their corruption! A good place to start would be with Omar’s immigration, marital, and educational frauds!
So thAt’s why Mohammed was a pedaphile!
Autism !!
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Pedophilia is ingrained in every fiber of Somali culture.
It was only outlawed in Somalia in 2017.
When, yet again, a Somali in Minnesota rapes a little girl, the entire Somali community comes together to beg/pressure judges for leniency.
The Al-Ihsan Islamic Center (thank God we have another islamic center) continually & reliably advocate understanding for Somali pedophiles.
(*You need to understand our customs” we’re told.)
Yet another group of Muzzies running a con in this country. In Minnesota it’s the Somalis. I wonder how deep the fraud runs so that Tampon Timmy can get his hands dirty.
Since you have never been to my church, and as usual, you just lie and make stuff up, how would you know what my particular church teaches.
I can conclude that you 1) aren’t a christian, 2) you hate Jews, 3) you hate blacks from the way you have talked about them, 4) you don’t know any Somalis or real Christians, 5) you hate America but you love the “poor downtrodden” Gazans. What do Europeans have to do with your little rant? You are unbelievably stupid.
The only one here practicing an “alternative lifestyle” is you, since you are obsessed with it. But I’m not surprised you focus on it. When one hasn’t graduated from the 5th grade, gay jokes are about all you have. As I said, normal boys tend to grow up and start dating girls and getting laid. You obviously never did. How is that Muslim rape gang of yours.
Hmmm, no upvotes. My guess is no one is buying your pathetic childish Pro Muzzie B.S. So what it like humping camels and goats?
Well now it becomes clearer why Kamala selected Tim as her running mate.
He could not oversee, regulate, the Somali autism scam any better than Kamala could oversee the southern border.
Kamala would not want to select a VP that had more competence than her.
Ilhan Omar is a scam. Her followers have learned scamming from her. Wake up Minnesota!
As a Minneapolis resident, I consider it appalling. It is further disturbing that a Somali is actually running for mayor of Minneapolis, which would make accountability even more difficult. I was not a fan of Jacob Frey, but I am now voting for him and praying he wins. How did Omar Fateh, the child of immigrants accumulate 6 million dollars in assets on a state senator salary? He received 11,000 dollars from Feeding Our Future and gave it back only because he was caught. Since 9-11, property taxes have risen sharply in Minneapolis. How much does all this fraud account for it? The nightly news has covered this fraud, but never does it mention that all these fraud cases involve one ethnic group, the Somalis. Extracting money out of infidels is just another form of dhimmi. It is our moral duty to pay them.
I have become very apprehensive about contributing to charities in recent years. Several months ago I contributed to a charity on line. As is normal I received an e-mail with a receipt, but my contribution had been given to an organization I had never heard of.
This happened only once but now I worry where my contributions are going.
Question for Walz:
How can “catastrophic growth of the state’s autism program” be “consistent” with anything?
Explain that Timmy.
My Mom was on the suckers list for these pseudo-charities, bombarded daily in the mail with requests for funds. She was too naive and good hearted to realize it was a scam, and kept sending them money to the end of her life, even if it meant losing her house.
Somehow I recognized it was a scam even when I was a youngster, seeing some of the mail my grandmother got from these “charities”. What makes a youngster like myself so cynical that he can see through these frauds even when his elders can’t?
This story is infuriating, but just about like the homelessness frauds in California. There are places in the U.S. run by groups in each place where fraud is rampant simply because the population in general are easy marks and the fraudsters, while not terribly bright, are exceptionally focussed on a few principles; mainly revolving around their self interest.
The guilty reaction to any charge of racism, no matter how absurd, is what identifies a mark.
Frankly, as sparkle headed as are Minnesotans I know in the Twin Cities area, and nearby smaller cities, I’m surprised the fraud has only grown exponentially.
Autistic People have far more Intelligence then some Liberal Snowflake Collage Grad ever did
Why do Jews insist on a multicultural America but want Israel for Jews only?
18% of Israel’s population is Muslim. What are you talking about….
So, who’s responsible for allowing Somali trash into our country? Obozo? Biden?
Deport them all, after confiscating everything they have.
It is probable that there has been fraudulent reporting in this community. But it’s way past time to recognize that the massive authentic increase in autism here, in Canada, the UK, and Australia, is real, and will destroy our societies to the extent that it has not already done so.
https://annedachel.substack.com/p/uk-ni-one-in-17-kids-have-autism?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1823991&post_id=168912453&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=4u4yo&triedRedirect=true
In the US, the official figure is one in 31 children. Much lower in adults, lower and lower depending on how long before the autism inflection point of 1991 they were born. When my daughter was born in 2000, it was in one in 170 American children. Now one in 31. She was given the hep-B vaccine at birth, although I had instructed her future pediatrician I didn’t want her to get it because it often caused autism, a fact widely known even in 2000. Hospital staff gave it to her anyway at midnight without my knowledge or permission. She reacted with encephalitic screaming syndrome for four days and nights, and autism.
Spokesperson for a school nurse association Patti White testified at the congressional safety hearing held on the hep-B vaccine in May 1999, given to all newborns in the US starting in 1991 (the autism inflection year), whether born to hep-B negative mothers like me (close to 100%), or not. White testified before the congressional committee that her association was convinced that the vaccine was responsible for the sudden surge in autism cases starting in 1991, through vaccine encephalitis such as my newborn experienced. Authorities “safety tested” the vaccine for four days post-administration. My daughter’s screaming syndrome began in the evening of Tuesday, May 9, four days after she had been given the vaccine on Friday, May 5, the day she was born. The “authorities” didn’t admit for consideration reactions which began over four days after administration, when the average length of time is four to five days post-administration. The pertussis vaccine, MMR, and flu vaccines are also major contributors to the autism rolls.
When I applied for SSI and Meficaid for my daughter when she turned eighteen, both agencies told me that they had been deluged with claims for enrollment in the previous few years, which had perforce to be fraudulent. The school district said the same thing. My daughter had a speech therapist who said that she had worked for the school district. It had had such a huge number of new claimants for services that she had been told to just X out an arbitrary number and deny their claims.
Unfortunately, every American now has personal acquaintance with (vaccine-induced) autism, can vouch for its reality and for the destruction of the lives and minds of millions. Thank God that RFK and Trump are finally doing something about it.
Well, who’s the Congresswoman in that state? No doubt, she gets a taste of that money. Investigate her holdings, bring her to answer as well as the other’s involved.
Than ship them off to their country of origin…
They always want to be prosecuted under Sharia Law, so do that and cut the hands off of everyone involved!
The Romans used to do that sometimes, cut off the hands of enemy prisoners (was just reading about that earlier today).
That MoreHamMad guy used to round up his mean guys who would then take their sharp pointy metal tools and invade some lace, kill and maim all they could find, and subjugate them. That tool a lot of time and effort.
These days his followers decide their next region to conquer, scatter, and on the sly gradually move in to the point they now have significant numbers. Once critical mass is attained, they get to work and infiltrate the society and begin to dismantle it piece by piece to the point of total domination.
This has happened in much of Minnesota.
The only way to END this invasion is to break up their rackets, convict, and if not full citizens, send them back to from where they came, permanent one way passage. . The full citizens then need to be compelled to occupy the same residential faility…. the kind with the grey bars.
Islam reminds me of Uncle Andrew in The Magician’s Nephew, who claimed that the “high and lonely destiny” of being a magician absolved him from normal morals. Substitute “jihadist” for “magician” and you have the “by any means necessary” mantra of the pro-Palestinian movement.
We all know what the problem is. But nobody is working on the solution.
Citizenships can be revoked and start deporting all frauds, criminals and terrorist supporters. Not just a few to set an example, but all of them.
Start with fraud Illhan Omar.
It can be done and must be done.
Greenfield are you in the White House now that Our Horowitz has cycled…. Miller does not have Yahudushkeit
So Muslims come to America and commit fraud with “Feeding Our Future”, and autism scams so that those Muslims can steal enormous amounts of our money. And as a result, those Muslims can live pretty high on the hog.