Expert reveals key factor that led to massive Minnesota fraud scheme
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A top researcher says assimilation challenges, fear of racial backlash, and lax state controls created conditions that allowed a multimillion-dollar fraud network to flourish.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
Prosecutors have since charged more than 70 defendants, a large percentage of whom are members of Minnesota’s Somali community, securing dozens of convictions as new waves of indictments continue. The scandal has triggered state and federal investigations, congressional scrutiny, and calls for accountability over why warnings were missed and how the fraud was allowed to reach this scale.
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