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federal homeland security On Monday, officials were conducting a fraud investigation minneapolisSecretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem explain.
Noem posted a video on the social platform X showing Homeland Security officers entering an unidentified business and questioning the staff behind the counter. Noem said police were conducting a “massive investigation into child care and other rampant fraud.”
“The American people deserve to know how their taxpayer dollars are being spent and to arrest abuses when they are discovered,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a release.
The day after the FBI director took action Kashi Patel X says the agency “has added personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to disrupt a massive fraud scheme that exploits federal programs.”
Patel said previous fraud arrests in Minnesota were “just the tip of the iceberg.”
A federal prosecutor claimed in early December that half or more of the approximately $18 billion in federal funds supporting 14 projects in Minnesota since 2018 may have been stolen.
governor of minnesota Tim Waltz He then said that fraud will not be tolerated and that his government “will continue to work with federal partners to ensure that fraud is stopped and fraudsters are caught.”
President Donald Trump has criticized Walz’s administration over fraud cases that have so far resulted in dozens of people being charged with stealing $250 million in a pandemic-related fraud scheme to steal money from federal programs.
A spokesman for Walz did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Monday.
Tensions have arisen in recent weeks between state and federal law enforcement in Minneapolis-St. Louis as the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has focused on the Somali community in the area. The São Paulo region is the largest in the country.