FBI agents are out executing search warrants at eight locations around the Twin Cities in yet another massive state benefit fraud case involving — I’m just going to say it — Somali perpetrators. This is day one of the case going public. I have embedded one of the eight unsealed search warrant affidavits below via Scribd — all 81 pages of it. What January 20, 2021 was to the Feeding Our Future case, July 16, 2025 is to this case. No charges have yet been brought. Today the authorities are gathering physical evidence.
The state of Minnesota was a pioneer in a new state Medicaid benefit — housing stabilization services. No problem there, except for its obvious vulnerability to fraud. According to the affidavit, they have cranked it up over at the Griggs-Midway Building on University Avenue in St. Paul in a big way.
I always wondered who still rented offices there. Now I know — 22 service provides participating in the Medicaid program including the inaptly named Brilliant Minds Services LLC. See pages 15-25 of the affidavit for a description of how it all went down. The chart on page 23 illustrates how the program has grown like Topsy.
This story will be all over the news tonight and probably embarrass Minnesota in the national news yet again. Alpha News has just posted a story on the searches here. The affidavit below lays out the coming case in painstaking detail. As I say, this is only day one of the public face of the case, but there will be more to come.
JUST IN: Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson at the scene of a search warrant in St. Paul related to Housing Stabilization Services:
“Fraud is a huge problem in Minnesota. Hopefully today will help put a stop to it.” pic.twitter.com/jjcRRBONZo
— Liz Collin (@lizcollin) July 16, 2025
I will be reusing the thumbnail photo of Guhaad Hashi. I first became aware of Hashi as Ilhan Omar’s enforcer in the Somali community. He subsequently appeared as a defendant in the Feeding Our Future fraud case. But of course. In the photo Hashi is instructing the local community to keep quiet about Omar’s frauds.
This investigation is conducted by federal authorities under the leadership of Acting United States Attorney Joe Thompson. The apparent fraud in issue here has gone on for several years now. Where was Tim Walz? Where was Keith Ellison? In Minnesota, fraud on the state is a growth business. That much I can tell you.
Joe called the Feeding Our Future case “the shame of Minnesota.” What we have here is more of the same.
__final Signed — 25mj456 by Scott Johnson on Scribd
