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The escalating violence in Minnesota is being dubbed by some as ‘bleeding Minnesota’. This refers to the ‘Bleeding Kansas’ period leading up to the US Civil War, where rival militias engaged in sporadic insurgent violence, most famously led by John Brown.
As Minnesota teeters on the brink of open rebellion, the question is: why Minnesota?
Partly it’s a consequence of being a blue state for all but three elections in the past 90 years. In the mid-late ’60s, it was Minnesota, not California, that led opposition to the Vietnam War.
But it’s also possibly something much more sinister and corrupt. As is being slowly uncovered, the sizeable Somali community in Minnesota is at the epicentre of a billion-dollar network of fraud, from dodgy ‘Learing’ centres to restaurants bilking tens of millions in federal funds for fake meal programs. While some of the money was spent on high living for the mostly Somalis involved, millions are alleged to have been channelled to the Al-Shabaab terror group in Somalia.
While some 90 individuals, all but one of them Somali, have been convicted, questions remain over how high in the local political food chain the graft went.
Rep Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) said President Trump was “panicking” Monday in response to a post in which he signaled the Department of Justice is probing the congresswoman’s income.
As Harry Truman famously said, “Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I’ll show you a crook.”
In his post, announcing that border czar Tom Homan will head to Minnesota Monday evening, Trump also claimed that Omar, who fled war-torn Somalia with her family in the 1990s and was elected to Congress in 2018, was worth more than $44 million.
Naturally, the legacy media are trying to dispute the $44 million claim. Shoot, it don’t come to more than 30.
A financial disclosure Omar filed in May 2025 for the prior year listed assets ranging from just more than $6 million to just more than $30 million. Most of that appears to be tied to a DC-based venture capital firm founded by Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett. The firm, Rose Lake Capital, is valued at between $5 million and $25 million.
For the record, that’s the husband who’s not her brother.
So, how does someone who came to the US as a ‘refugee’ in the 1990s, and was $130,000 in debt in 2024, come to amass a fortune in the millions?
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also told reporters Monday that the administration is looking into whether Omar is connected to the fraud occurring in Minnesota’s social services programs – questioning the increase in her personal assets in financial disclosures.
“One must ask themselves why and how is that possible? Is she connected to the fraud rings that we have taking place within her state and her own district. It’s a question the American people are raising, and the president believes it’s one worth answering,” Leavitt said.
Minnesota governor and former vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz also faces awkward questions.
A series of state audits into lax oversight of Minnesota funds were either minimized or dismissed by Walz and administration officials, CNN reported last year. Criticism of the governor’s hands-off approach to accountability came amid allegations the Somali community’s strong support for – and contributions to – Democrats helped shield them from scrutiny.
But did it go much further than merely turning a blind eye to billion-dollar fraud involving a key voter bloc? Aimee Bock, the only non-Somali so far convicted, is adamant that “We relied on the state.” She added that local officials, including Ilhan Omar, would often visit.
Bock also dismisses the claim from state education officials that she and others involved in the fraud intimidated state investigators.
“The notion that a state government is paralyzed and has to allow this level of fraud because they were afraid of what I might do in a lawsuit is preposterous,” Bock said.
It looks as if there’s a lot of bodies still buried in Minnesota that its Democrat bosses, state and federals, would like to stay buried. Fomenting a civil war is one way to divert attention.
