Federal agents raid 22 Minneapolis businesses in massive fraud investigation
Federal agents are currently raiding 22 businesses in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as part of a major federal fraud investigation. Brooke Taylor reports live that the raids are linked to a viral YouTube video by Nick Shirley, who exposed alleged child care funding fraud in December. The Trump administration had already frozen funding for child care and requested a full audit of some child care centers.
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Former Minnesota Vikings captain and Minnesota Golden Gophers football star Jack Brewer witnessed an arc of crimes and punishment involving his state’s Somali community.
After previously telling PK Press Club Digital that he saw suspected Somali fraudsters buying luxury sports cars during his playing career with the Vikings, Brewer has seen the FBI conduct raids on the suspected Somali fraudsters at the center of a years-long welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota.
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Jack Brewer stands with law enforcement in Minneapolis. (PK Press Club, Getty Images)
“Americans should celebrate today. Finally, we have an FBI that actually stands up for the poor people of this country and puts an end to this corruption that’s happening in and around Minneapolis, where they’re stealing, literally stealing from orphans, widows and those living in poverty,” Brewer told PK Press Club Digital later Tuesday.
“Thank God Kash Patel and the feds are stepping in, because they’re the only ones trying to police this place. Minnesota won’t police itself.”
Federal authorities raided more than 20 locations, including day care centers, in Minneapolis on Tuesday as part of a extensive fraud investigation in majority-Somali companies, sources confirmed to PK Press Club.
Authorities executed 22 federal search warrants in Minnesota Tuesday morning as part of the operation. related to immigration.
The raids focus on federal fraud investigations into largely Somali-owned businesses, including day care centers that registered their day care with the state but allegedly billed for care that was not provided.
“They prey on vulnerable people,” Brewer said of the suspected fraudsters.
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Former Minnesota Vikings safety Jack Brewer speaks during a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, February 27, 2021. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks during a news conference at City Hall following a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 28, 2025. (Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg; Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
“I believe they go into these networks and pass information to each other: how to steal from the US government and how to exploit the very people these programs were created to help. These people are disgusting. They steal from the people who need help the most and turn suffering into their own personal business model.”
Brewer was a standout special teams player and team captain for the Minnesota Vikings. Signed as a free agent, he played in 15 games in 2002, leading the team in special teams tackles and recording his first career interception against Green Bay. He was named team captain in 2003.
Before that, he was a team captain and standout safety at the University of Minnesota after transferring from SMU, earning first-team All-Big Ten honors and leading defensive backs in tackles in 2001.
“Minnesota is one of the places with the fewest fathers in America, particularly because 28 percent of households are single-family households, the vast majority being single mothers. Minnesota is literally vulnerable to these schemes from all these people who have figured out how to game the system and have created industries of corruption,” Brewer added.
“A lot of liberal cities, but especially Minneapolis, have become completely lawless. They’re not going to police themselves in any way – at the state level, at the local level or at the city level. All they do is let people get away with crime after crime after crime, regardless of whether it’s a violent crime or a white-collar crime… What can you do to go to jail in Minnesota? If you look at it, they have the shortest prison sentences, they let people out of prison, and it becomes a free-for-all.”
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Minnesota has been in the spotlight for years for Medicaid fraud, including a massive $300 million pandemic fraud case involving the nonprofit Feeding Our Future. It attracted renewed national attention in 2025 as convictions piled up and the state became a global hot spot. the Trump administration a broader “war on fraud.”
In 2022, under former President Joe Biden’s administration, 47 people were indicted. As of December, 57 people had been convicted, either because they pleaded guilty or lost at trial. Most of the accused are of Somali origin.
