(The Daily Signal)—Democrats and legacy media really don’t want to keep talking about the Somali fraud scandal anymore, but the American people are stepping right around them.
That’s my take as the story about a colossal Somali fraud ring in Minnesota explodes to the point where similar programs in other states are now being rightly looked at with suspicion.
What’s incredible about this whole thing is not just the extent of the scams taking place in Minnesota, but how it’s now all being uncovered.
The most aggressive investigation and reporting on this issue hasn’t been traditional media. It’s a handful of conservative websites and legions of people on X and other social media simply looking through public documents, doing some on the scene investigations and asking questions.
It was an independent journalist, Nick Shirley, who blew up the Somali day care scam. He did some real shoe leather journalism with another investigative reporter but without any institution supporting him.
Sure, some outlets covered what was happening, but they downplayed or failed to follow up on the depth of the problem that exists in Minnesota as Drew Holden at American Compass pointed out.
And what’s happened in Minnesota seems to be the tip of the iceberg.
How many other programs in other states are just extensive fraud operations where state regulators don’t bother—or are discouraged from—investigating whether the money is being used appropriately, legally, or for its original intent?
California will almost certainly be fertile ground for snooping into where the vast amount of public money that the state gobbles up year after year is going. This is a state that spent over $24 billion on preventing homelessness, didn’t track the money and ended up with more homelessness to boot.
So where did all that money go?
There is obviously an easy opening for a mountain of outright corruption in the Golden State, but few in power seem to want to do anything about it. In fact, it seems like they may be benefiting from it.
It’s citizen journalists who are now more frequently “opening the books” on public records, doing some sleuthing and trying to get to the bottom of why our governments are paying out billions of dollars to crooks.
Again, regular people are looking into grants and taxpayer money and are asking questions.
This really feels like the democratization of the original DOGE idea, a mass project by millions of concerned Americans to get to the bottom of where our money is going.
Some government agencies are actively fighting back and trying to obscure public data.
Even worse, many in the legacy, corporate media are apparently quite angry that some people decided to investigate stories they don’t want to cover.
Politico’s Josh Gerstein put this ominous post on X, suggesting that at some point somebody might shoot one of the amateur reporters. He said that he isn’t advocating for this to happen, but this passive aggressive post is certainly quite revealing.
They really are angry and bitter toward the people who just won’t accept the narratives that are being force fed to them over day by corporate media.
However, it’s clear that this kind of reporting can’t be contained in America just yet (good luck to Europe) and in some cases there has been a positive government response. The FBI and some federal agencies are at least saying they are looking into the matter.
And more potential scams are being exposed. Is the same kind of large-scale day care scam happening in Ohio?
Now, maybe nothing comes out of all this.
Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and the people who support him seem to be a lot less concerned with their state budget being plundered and are a lot more concerned about ensuring that their narrative about the limitless benefits of mass scale immigration from Somalia and elsewhere isn’t disrupted.
However, because of the work of a few dedicated people, many of whom are not professional journalists, we may now start to see the depths at which the American taxpayer is truly being outright robbed.
What we do with the information is up to us. There are not an insubstantial number of Americans who are willing to let us all ride this train to perdition in the name of ideology.
But I suspect there are many others who are outraged every day and every year around tax time they are forking over their hard-earned money to con artists, cheats, and American-hating fraudsters.
How much of our country’s debt problem is really a fraud problem? Thanks to a few journalists and independent citizens on X and elsewhere, we may soon find out.
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