Somalia aka Minnesota

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Fatrat said:
Fake as hell...but would be nice if crooked people like Rick Scott and many others served some time.
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I checked both videos:

GROK
No, this does not appear to be an AI-generated video.The YouTube link

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is a YouTube Short from the channel Judged4life, uploaded around February 12, 2026.
  • Title: "Somali national can’t believe his sentence. #prison #sentence"
  • It shows real courtroom footage (or at least presented as such) of a defendant reacting in shock to a 40-year sentence for fraud and theft, with dialogue like "40 years? That is my whole life..." etc.
  • It has over 3 million views already, which is typical for viral courtroom/shock-reaction shorts.
  • The channel Judged4life posts similar real (or claimed real) court/prison/sentence videos — no signs it's an AI/synthetic content channel.
There's no indication in the title, description (which is empty), tags, or online discussions that this is AI-generated, deepfake, or synthetic. No comments or search results flag it as fake/AI either — searches for the video ID + "AI" or "deepfake" turn up unrelated videos instead.These kinds of dramatic courtroom reaction clips are very common on YouTube (often from real U.S. court proceedings that get clipped and shared), and this one fits that format perfectly. If it were AI-generated, there would usually be some tells in discussions, visual artifacts (especially in faces/mouths in 2026-era gen video), or channel context — none of which appear here.So unless new evidence emerges that this specific clip was fabricated, it's safe to say it's not AI video — just a regular viral court clip.
 
Have there been trials in MN for Somali nationals for theft of government funds?

Yes, there have been multiple trials (and convictions) in Minnesota involving individuals of Somali descent (including Somali nationals, immigrants, and Somali Americans) charged with theft or fraud related to government funds, particularly welfare, Medicaid, child nutrition, and other social services programs.These cases are part of a major, ongoing scandal in Minnesota that has drawn national attention, especially in late 2025 and early 2026. Prosecutors (federal and state) have charged dozens to nearly 100 people—most of Somali descent—in schemes defrauding federal- and state-funded programs. Losses are estimated in the hundreds of millions to potentially billions across multiple programs.Key Examples of Cases and Trials:
  • Feeding Our Future fraud scheme (largest and most prominent): This involved defrauding a federal child nutrition program (meant for feeding children during COVID-19) of about $250 million by billing for nonexistent meals/sites.
    • Federal prosecutors charged over 70–80 defendants (vast majority Somali descent or Somali American).
    • Many have gone to trial or pleaded guilty.
    • Examples:
      • Convictions and sentences include 17.5 years for one defendant (Mukhtar Shariff), 12 years for another (Mohamed Jama Ismail), 51 months for Sahra Nur, and others up to decades.
      • Ringleader Aimee Bock (non-Somali) was convicted after trial and faces up to 33 years (awaiting full sentencing).
      • Over 60 convictions reported by late 2025/early 2026.
  • Medicaid and related fraud:
    • Multiple cases involving false billing for autism therapy, home health services, personal care assistance (PCA), and other Medicaid-funded programs.
    • Examples:
      • Abdifatah Yusuf: Convicted at trial in 2025 of stealing over $7 million via fake home health services (verdict later overturned in one report, but part of broader pattern).
      • Other charges: Groups defrauding $9.5M, $11M, $2.6M, $10M+ in separate Medicaid cases (many involving Somali community members/providers).
      • Trials and guilty verdicts in Hennepin County and federal courts.
  • Broader scope:
    • Federal U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota: Charged 90+ defendants across schemes (child nutrition, housing assistance, autism/behavioral health), with 80+ of Somali descent; many convictions (60+ reported).
    • State Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit: Secured convictions in theft-by-swindle cases tied to similar fraud.
    • Estimates: Up to $1B+ stolen in investigated plots; some reports suggest losses across programs could reach $9B+ (half or more of certain funds potentially fraudulent).
These are real criminal cases prosecuted in Minnesota courts (federal district court and state courts like Hennepin County), with trials, guilty pleas, convictions, and sentences handed down. The schemes often involved shell companies, fake services, kickbacks, and misbilling government programs.Note: While most defendants are Somali American (many naturalized citizens), some are immigrants/Somali nationals. The cases have sparked controversy, with community leaders noting damage to the Somali American reputation (MN has the largest Somali population in the U.S., ~80,000+), while officials stress fraud is by specific individuals, not the community as a whole. Investigations continue under both prior and current administrations.
 

HOLY CR*P Journalist looked into Ilhan Omar’s business partner

- Wine business, fake
- Investment firm, fake (no clients)

Ilhan Omar’s husband’s business partner served as "SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE CHAIRMAN AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE”

It’s a Democrat fraud operation

Angela Rose “Along with investigating Ilhan Omar's husband (Timothy Mynett) what if we looked into his business partner in both the venture capital firm and the winery??

His name is Will Hailer. He served as "Senior Advisor to the Chairman at the Democratic National Committee." Claims he has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and has elected thousands of people to office (according to his Linkedin)”

“Will and Tim are known for swindling investors, one example of this is Hailer promising an investor $7.5M if he invested $3.5M - leading to a fraud lawsuit”
 

JUST IN: The foreign semi-truck driver who almost caused HEAD-ON COLLISIONS by driving the wrong direction is from a company registered in...wait for it...MINNESOTA

Registered to an "Abdiwali Ahmed" and drove 81K miles in 2024

The driver could not read English road signs.

PURGE THE CDL ROLLS! Too many foreigners drive semi-trucks! Or more Americans will lose their lives.
 
My tax money is stolen and given to the terrorists in Israel....
 
Bottom Feeder said:
The Somali terror group Al-Shabaab operates in isreal?
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Who funded Hamas, isreal...who does ISIS never attack, israel... you will catch on that israel and the USA fund plenty of terrorist groups when it suits us.
 
The Israelis are the other "Master Race", wake up soon please...
 
Maybe should have a Government Fraud thread...


BREAKING: Trump CMS Administrator Dr. Oz just launched a MASSIVE $124 BILLION investigation into New York Medicaid fraud — NYP

Oz confirmed with JD Vance that NY has MUCH higher Medicaid spending than the rest of the country by nearly 80%

OZ TO NY GOV. KATHY HOCHUL: "The data is clear. New York far outspends other states on its Medicaid program on a statewide and per beneficiary basis."

$12,528 is spent in NY per Medicaid beneficiary, much higher than the national average

DEFUND blue state fraud!
 
Kiryas Joel N.Y is going to feature biggly in this ...
 
If we could only deport the Israelis too...
 

BREAKING. Scott Bessent just announced the Internal Revenue Service is launching MASSIVE AUDITS of financial institutions that facilitated the laundering of Minnesota funds.

Read that again.

Banks. MSBs. Financial middlemen.
Anyone who helped move dirty money is about to get TORCHED.

For once, the IRS is being deployed FOR AMERICANS FIRST — not against working families.

Follow the money.
Audit everything.
Prosecute whoever broke the law.

Thank you, Sec. Bessent.

Do you firmly support Scott on this?

A. Huge Yes
B. No

IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP!!
 
Yes, of course, we support Scotty in this.

But I for one don't trust that gay blade any more than I could throw his boyfriend.

The proof of the pudding is the tasting. And we're gonna be dealing with the aftertaste of this for a long, long time.
 

This is absolutely insane

Journalist Angela Rose investigates Minnesota Rep Ilhan Omar’s consulting headquarters who claims to manage $60 billion in assets

She goes into the building, walks every floor

They DO NOT EXIST. (Holy Sh*t)

“We are going to be infiltrating Ilhan Omar's sketchy consulting headquarters that claims that they have $60 billion in assets under their management. Yet they are located out of a co-working place called WeWork. This company is called Rose Lake Capital and it is co-owned by Ilhan Omar's husband Timothy Manette. And similar to the winery in 2023, it made up to $51,000 and it had a sudden and very suspicious increase in net worth up to $30 million in 2024”

“I walked by every single office in this building and everyone has their logos proudly displayed on the wall. I asked around for Rose Lake Capital and people were not familiar with it. I looked at every logo and Rose Lake Capital did not have an office here.”
 
Goldhedge said:
This company is called Rose Lake Capital ...
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It has been a few moons ago, but something about that name rhymes with "Hillary Clinton".
Could these company names be a special code that means something to the "in" crowd?
I am thinking also of names like "Black-*", "*-Water", and "*-Owl" for example.
 

Five more convicted in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme in Minnesota:

Ikram Yusuf Mohamed, Shakur Abdinur Abdisalam, Aisha Hassan Hussein, Sahra Sharif Osman, and Fadumo Mohamed Yusuf.

63 convicts in this scheme (and counting) include: Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, Mohamed Jama Ismail, Abdimajid Mohamed Nur, Mukhtar Mohamed Shariff, Hayat Mohamed Nur, Sharon Ross, Sahra M. Nur, Bekam Merdassa, Hadith Yusuf Ahmed, Hanna Marekgn, Abdul Abubakar Ali, Anab Awad, Liban Yasin Alishire, Mulata Ali, Muhamed Ali Hussein, Lul Bashir Ali, Abdulkadir Awale, Qamar Hassan, Abdikadir Kadiye, Yusuf Ali, Filsan Hassan, Ahmed Sharif Omar-Hashim, Hoda Ali Abdi, Abdulkarim Shafii Farah, etc.

Aimee Bock, the founder and executive director of the fake nonprofit, was also convicted.
 
And Kiryas Joel NY and Lakewood NJ thanks for last 50 years of welfare... Kiryas Joel was officially incorporated as a village in 1976. Its establishment began with the purchase of land in the early 1970s, with the first 14 families from the Satmar Hasidic sect settling in the summer of 1974.
 
sounds like a lot to me. just need Nick to check them out...

 
Some arrests...


TWO SOMALI-AMERICAN JUDGES ARRESTED IN MINNEAPOLIS DAWN RAID: 3.25 TONS OF COCAINE & $1.5 BILLION JUDICIAL FRAUD NETWORK EXPOSED
At 4:18 a.m., over 200 federal agents stormed 17 locations across Minneapolis and St. Paul, shattering the sanctity of the justice system.
The targets: sitting federal judges Amina Hassan and Khaled Osman — a married couple who allegedly used their courtrooms to shield the Sinaloa and CJNG cartels.
Agents discovered hidden stashes of cocaine, firearms, and encrypted devices mapping drug shipment routes. The judges were accused of systematically dismissing cases, destroying evidence, delaying warrants, and clearing paths for massive cartel operations while laundering over $1.5 billion through shell companies and fake nonprofits.
They didn’t just fail to deliver justice — they allegedly sold it.
A trusted judicial dynasty turned the bench into a cartel shield.
The gavel has fallen.
The robes are off.
The empire of corruption is collapsing.
 
Who we gonna go to war with, to cover THIS up?
 
We are doing it right now, while Trump buries Epstein files, dimmies burns this, enjoy the war...
 
...not.

I'm watching gasoline prices launch. Two days ago they were $3.59. Now they're $3.89.

Last week, well into this Wag-The-Dog war for Israel's Messianic Return...last week, they were $3.29. And of course five weeks ago, they were $2.39.
 
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