WATCH: The $8 BILLION Somali Fraud Network Tim Walz FAILED to Stop
This week’s episode of The Patriot Perspective, hosted by The Gateway Pundit’s Gregory Lyakhov and Ofer Adar, pulled apart one of the most alarming welfare scandals in modern American politics: the massive Medicaid-fraud network that flourished for years in Minnesota while state leaders insisted nothing was wrong.
From the opening minutes, the episode traced how Minnesota became the epicenter of a national failure.
Gregory and Ofer walked listeners through the federal indictments that first exposed a $250–$300 million fraud operation built through falsified Medicaid and child-nutrition claims.
But as they explained, that figure represents only a fraction of what investigators now believe occurred.
In their view, the real number—based on internal assessments, court filings, and unreported audits—may stretch into the billions.
The episode began by outlining how the system was engineered for abuse.
Minnesota’s welfare-grant structure expanded rapidly, yet oversight did not.
Agencies relied on self-reported attendance sheets, unverifiable billing logs, and nonprofit contractors that multiplied faster than regulators could monitor them.
Gregory described this as “a structure built on trust in a sector where trust cannot be the only safeguard.”
Ofer emphasized a pattern the public was never told about: networks of linked nonprofits operating inside Somali enclaves, many of them handling large federal reimbursements with minimal documentation.
The hosts stressed that this does not implicate every Somali Minnesotan, but the decision by Democrat leadership to dismiss all scrutiny as racism effectively shut down meaningful oversight.
That political decision, they argued, allowed fraud to operate at a scale that would have triggered immediate investigations in any other context.
The show then turned to the demographic and economic data that reveal how Minnesota’s social-service system reached a breaking point.
Somali Minnesotans make up roughly 1.5% of the state but nearly 12% of its poverty population. That imbalance translates into billions in annual public-assistance obligations and places intense pressure on Medicaid.
Ignoring those numbers, Gregory noted, is not compassion—it is fiscal malpractice.
From there, the hosts connected Minnesota’s experience to national trends.
Across the United States, East African criminal prosecutions involving fraud, money laundering, and benefits abuse have quietly surged. Agencies see the pattern. Politicians pretend not to.
The episode concluded with a warning.
In Gregory and Ofer’s view, Minnesota’s scandal was not a bureaucratic mistake. Rather, it was the predictable outcome of leaders who replaced accountability with narrative.
President Trump’s renewed push to rebuild Medicaid integrity, they argued, is not optional—it is essential.
Without aggressive investigation and structural reform, the next billion-dollar fraud network is not a possibility.
Watch more episodes of The Patriot Perspective on YouTube and Rumble
The post EXPOSED: The $8 BILLION Somali Fraud Network Tim Walz FAILED to Stop appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.