Later in December, 2025 we did a series of posts on just how out of control the criminal fraud being committed against government taxpayer funded programs has become. Billions and billions of dollars being funneled into criminal enterprises and never reaching the people who were most in need of those services.
The first of those December posts can be accessed at:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/12/never-ending-government-corruption-part.html
Our first corruption post in 2026 can be accessed at:
https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/01/never-ending-government-corruption-2026.html
Obviously, many of those discussions were focused on the despicable corruption of government programs in Minnesota, with most of the fraud apparently being committed by Somali immigrants. However, they are not the only people ripping off government programs and taxpayers:
1)Let’s continue with the discussion we started yesterday, the many varied ways that criminals steal taxpayer wealth via criminal fraud of government programs:
Two Massachusetts men were recently arrested for stealing from the Federal government’s food stamp program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP.
This information comes from a Department of Justice news release.
They are accused of stealing millions of dollars from the program with the fraud ranging from$100,000 to $500,000 a month.
One of them established a 150 square foot grocery “store” and one established a 500 square foot grocery “store.”
In reality, very little groceries were sold out of these very small retail footprints, the “stores” were basically a front to launder SNAP benefits.
Suspicions arose when 70% of the stores’ transactions were over $95, a number that is typical of large, established, legitimate grocery stores.
Specifically: “These men abused one of the government’s most critical safety net programs for their own financial gain. This is taxpayer money meant to keep people from going hungry. These defendants decided to take it for themselves,” United States Attorney Leah Foley said “They were not full-service groceries. It would be a huge stretch to even call them convenience stores. In fact, the only thing convenient about these stores was how easy it was to commit SNAP benefit fraud. Simply put, there is no plausible way SNAP-eligible food could have been purchased from these stores for this long. Yet, these two stores are alleged to have illicitly trafficked nearly $7 million in SNAP benefits. The fraud was shocking and glaring.”
They tried to hide their criminal dealing through a series of multiple bank accounts.
Their small size made it physically impossible to have enough inventory to support their SNAP claims.
They are facing up to five years in jail and a fine of $250,000 for each false transaction greater than $100.
Fortunately, these alleged thieves have been caught stealing government benefits funded with taxpayer dollars. Hopefully, this is just the first of probably hundreds/thousands of ongoing SNAP fraud efforts underway.
2)We covered the extensive and disgusting Minnesota fraud schemes back in late December but have stayed away from them for a while until some of the smoke settles, we see just how many billions of dollars were stolen, and whether anyone will be held accountable and go to jail.
But it is worth while to do the following update as the fraud from this scheme has played itself out quite a bit:
A supposed charity in Minnesota, “Feeding Our Future,” was established in 2016 and was supposed to be a charity that fed underprivileged kids from poor households before and during the pandemic.
Certainly a noble concept because who would want to take the food out of the mouths of kids that were in need?
Apparently, a number of criminal minds in Minnesota had no problem taking the money and not feeding the kids.
As reported here and in the press, almost 80 people, mostly Somali immigrants, have already been arrested in connection with this fraud and almost 60 of them have been found guilty or pleaded guilty.
According to the RedState website, Aimee Bock was the former director and founder of the nonprofit, Feeding Our Children.
She has been ordered by a Federal judge to surrender a whole slew of luxury possessions that probably were bought with funds intended to feed kids.
These possessions included a Porsche, a diamond necklace, a Louis Vuitton purse, and $3.7 million deposited in multiple bank accounts.
These possessions are hardly affordable by a typical director of a nonprofit organization.
She has already been convicted of Federal charges of wire fraud, bribery, and conspiracy to defraud the American taxpayer via “the nation’s largest Covid-19 fraud scheme.”
She and her organization claimed to have served a staggering 91 MILLION meals to disadvantaged kids which got them at least $250 million in Federal government funds, and possibly up to $400 million, even though they did not come remotely close to serving that many kids.
Additional reporting indicates that Bock was also involved with with the day care fraud exposed by Nick Shirley who alleged: "BREAKING: Convicted fraudster, Aimee Bock, listed as the person of contact for at least 47 taxpayer-funded 'child cares' in Minnesota, per official state records."
So far, Federal investigators have only recovered about $75 million of the hundreds of millions of dollars that went down this criminal drain.
It is one thing to rip off taxpayers but the disgusting nature of the crime get compounded when the dollars that were defrauded were supposed to feed kids. Despicable humans.
3)But it is not all bad news regarding the defrauding of the American taxpayer, given the following success story in shutting down a major criminal fraud scheme:
department of justice,
The Trump administration recently announced the “largest coordinated healthcare fraud takedown in the history of the Department of Justice.”
According to the Blaze, the fraud totaled $14.6 billion.
Besides the dollar size of the fraud, criminal charges have been filed by the Department of Justice against a whopping 324 people including 96 doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other medical professionals.
In addition, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid prevented an additional $4 billion from being stolen and revoked the billing privileges of another 206 medical providers.
The fraud also involved people residing in different countries, not just the US.
An example of fraud was out in Arizona where three medical professionals allegedly applied skin grafts to terminally ill hospice patients even though there was no need for the grafts and then billed Medicare.
According to Matthew Galeotti, the head of the DOJ”s Criminal Division: “That conduct is exactly as callous and disturbing as it sounds. Patients and their families trusted these providers with their lives. Instead of receiving care, they became victims of elaborate criminal schemes.”
A nurse practitioner allegedly performed unnecessary procedures on hospice patients that were days away from dying.
International criminal gangs defrauded Medicare of over $10 billion through fake catheter claims.
At last, good news on the government fraud front. Hopefully, this momentum continues to build and stop more fraud. You can be sure that there is plenty more out there if Minnesota is a tip of the iceberg of the criminal activity stealing taxpayer wealth around the country and around the world.
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