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The consequences of a series of state and federal fraud scandals executed by a criminal enterprise in Minnesota have reverberated far beyond disgraced Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) political career. The Justice Department has criminally charged nearly 100 people involved, 85 of whom are of Somali descent. And while President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security deploys immigration officials to crack down on fraudsters in Minneapolis, the State Department has paused all federal assistance going to Somalis abroad after finding that Somalia’s government fraudulently seized 76 metric tons of food aid for women and children and destroyed a U.S.-funded World Food Programme warehouse.