Minnesota’s leading corrupt Democrats will have more than a month to get their stories straight.

In the meantime, conservatives must keep that state’s shocking social services fraud scandal in the headlines.

According to a news release from Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison, both of Minnesota, have agreed to testify before the committee on March 4.

“Americans deserve answers about the rampant misuse of taxpayer dollars in Minnesota’s social services programs that occurred on Governor Walz’s and Attorney General Ellison’s watch,” the release read. “The House Oversight Committee recently heard sworn testimony from Minnesota state lawmakers who stated that Governor Walz and Attorney General Ellison failed to act to stop this widespread fraud and retaliated against whistleblowers who raised concerns.”

Comer added that the questioning would “ensure transparency and accountability for the American people.”

The press release also noted that the two Minnesota Democrats’ testimony will support the committee’s ongoing investigation into “extensive money laundering and fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs,” detailed at length last month on the social media platform X by independent journalist Nick Shirley and “uncovered by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota.”

Like other independent journalists, Shirley risked his personal safety to expose the scandal, a large portion of which reportedly involved members of the state’s Somali immigrant community.

The revelation of that scandal triggered a surge into Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Minnesota anti-ICE activists responded to the surge by doing everything in their power to physically impede ICE operations. One such activist, 37-year-old Renee Good, lost her life on Jan. 7 while trying to ram an ICE agent with her vehicle.

Rather than encourage state residents to respect federal law, however, Walz and Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis adopted bellicose rhetoric, as if they wanted confrontation.

Things got worse.

The next (and arguably most grotesque) anti-ICE incident occurred on Jan. 18, when a group of leftist agitators, including pseudo-journalist Don Lemon, invaded Cities Church in St. Paul, disrupted services, and harassed worshipers.

After that invasion, Ellison appeared on Lemon’s podcast. There, the attorney general spoke approvingly of both the protest and Lemon’s presence.

On Jan. 24, with tensions peaking, 37-year-old anti-ICE activist Alex Pretti died in a scuffle with ICE. Democrats, of course, tried to turn Pretti into their latest peace-loving martyr. Video released this week, however, showed the rage-filled Pretti attacking ICE agents in a prior incident.

One may hope, therefore, that testimony from Walz and Ellison leads to the accountability Comer promised.

After all, one senses that Minnesota has endured month-long violence because Democrat leaders want to distract from the fraud scandal.

With that in mind, we must do everything possible to keep that scandal in the news cycle.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Hoffman went to the Island.

A man who used his fortune to bankroll a lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump is now featured extensively in the new DOJ-released Jeffrey Epstein documents.

The three and a half million documents from the latest – and apparently last – have been released by the DOJ following the approval of the House Resolution 4405, the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Documents from this massive release show the close ties between LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and the late pedophile.

The pair ‘discusses visits to Epstein’s infamous private island, his New Mexico ranch, and his New York apartment’.

The New York Post reported:

“’Reid will spend the night at 71^st’, according to one email from Hoffman’s team included in the latest Justice Department dump of Epstein files, in reference to his Upper East Side townhouse.”

BREAKING: Newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails reveal LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman discussing visits to Epstein’s private island, New Mexico ranch, and New York apartment.

“Reid will spend the night at 71st”

“Reid Hoffman will go to the ranch for the weekend”

“Jeffrey will… pic.twitter.com/eRGEecI2KG

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 30, 2026

A 2014 memo states that Epstein hosted will have (venture capitalist) Joi Ito and Reid Hoffman on the infamous Zorro Ranch for a weekend.

“An email Epstein penned to his assistant Saida Sapieva under the heading ‘Trip to the Island’ states: ‘Reid will take a Virgin America Flight from SFO to Fort Lauderdale, departing at 8:20 am, landing at 4:40 pm’. In 2023, Hoffman visited to Epstein’s former Caribbean private island, Little St. James, also known as ‘pedophile island’, The Post previously reported.”

In 2016 email, Epstein helps top Democratic fundraiser Hoffman recover his passport.

“’Saida, please tell reid that i have his passport. Found in the gift bag they had given me’, Epstein wrote. ‘Larry and me and your passport’, Epstein later wrote Hoffman dryly about an event, in a likely reference to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. ‘Excellent!’ exclaimed Hoffman.”

“OK, COME TO ISLAND, RANCH, LETS PLAY,” said Jeffery Epstein to Reid Hoffman.

No wonder Reid Hoffman was scared to death for the Epstein files to come out and funding lawsuits against President Trump.

On top of all that, he has connections to the CCP’s president of China, Xi… pic.twitter.com/2z4YJnc3dK

— The SCIF (@TheSCIF) January 31, 2026

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Billionaire and Democratic Megadonor Reid Hoffman is Looking to Move Abroad After Trump’s Victory

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Department of Homeland Security officials say that Somali fraudsters have transported roughly $700 million in bulk cash through the Minneapolis airport to Somalia since 2024.  

Officials also say that $136 million has been flown from Columbus, Ohio, to Somalia since 2023.

Meanwhile, large hub airports like John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas only see about three to four million dollars in cash being transported, according to Fox’s Kayleigh McEnany.

Under the network known as hawala, money is sent back without a paper trail to the third-world country of Somalia. But it’s reportedly estimated that only $215 million in remittances are sent each year by Somalis in the US, not the billion-plus dollars sent over the last three years.

Officials say this money could be siphoned or taxed by the terrorist group al-Shabaab, Fox News reports.

During a January 21 House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Ha Nguyen McNeill, Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), testified that TSA agents report when the bulk cash is seen on the X-rays at airports and that there is an “ongoing investigation with our law enforcement partners.”

More from Fox:

The Gateway Pundit has long reported on this Somali scam in the US.

In 2016, Somali welfare recipients were busted funneling millions of dollars in suitcases full of cash through Seattle, Washington, one of the states with the largest Somali populations in America.

In 2018, we reported that over $100 million was funneled through St. Paul International Airport in just one year.

And as revelations of the massive Somali fraud scheme involving Minnesota daycare centers come to light again following Nick Shirley’s exposé, it should be recalled that this scheme was discovered over a decade ago, when a whistleblower in Minnesota exposed over $100 million in fraud.

Now, after years of inaction and increased brazenness from the foreign scammers, the amount of fraud has ballooned to billions of dollars.

Trump went off on the Somali fraud ring this morning in a statement, writing, “The Theft and Fraud in Minnesota is far greater than the 19 Billion Dollars originally projected” and demanding Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) deportation.

“‘Scammer’ Illhan Omar and her absolutely terrible friends from Somalia should all be in jail right now or, far worse, send them back to Somalia,” Trump said, also slamming Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for his corruption and incompetence.

“Send them Back to Somalia” – Trump Calls for “Scammer” Ilhan Omar’s Deportation, Slams Tim Walz Over Somali Fraud in Minnesota

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Another day, another corrupt Democrat.

Georgia Democrat State Rep. Dexter Sharper was charged with defrauding the federal government by falsely claiming unemployment while he earned income.

According to federal prosecutors, Rep. Sharper collected nearly $14,000 in emergency Covid benefits while earning money from income.

“While many of his constituents and fellow citizens were losing jobs and desperately needed unemployment assistance during the pandemic, Representative Sharper allegedly pretended to be out of work to collect a share of unemployment benefits for himself,” said US Attorney Theodore Hertzberg.

“When government officials lie to take money, and do it while holding an elected office, it violates the trust of citizens and weakens faith in our elected government,” he added.

CBS News reported:

A third member of the Georgia House of Representatives has been accused of lying to collect thousands of dollars in unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rep. Dexter L. Sharper, who represents District 177, is the latest Democratic lawmaker facing federal charges of making false statements to obtain funds administered by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Investigators say Sharper applied for unemployment benefits from April 2020 to May 2021, claiming to have had only one employer, Dexter Sharper Party Rental. In the application, Sharper allegedly stated that he had not worked since March 13, 2020, claiming in 38 separate weekly certifications that he had not worked and was actively seeking employment.

However, prosecutors say the Valdosta man was working in the Georgia General Assembly in addition to running his party rental business and performing as a musician.

Authorities say Sharper collected more than $13,000 of unemployment assistance benefits during that time.

Dexter Sharper is the third Democrat state lawmaker to be charged with defrauding the federal government in the last few months.

Earlier this month, Georgia state Rep. Karen Bennett was indicted by a federal grand jury for Covid fraud.

Bennett is a pro-BLM, defund the police activist.

Prosecutors said Bennett defrauded taxpayers after she obtained COVID-19 unemployment benefits, despite her business remaining open during the pandemic.

She was charged with one count of false statements.

Last month, Georgia Democrat state legislator Sharon Henderson was arrested and charged with defrauding the federal government.

Henderson was indicted for Covid pandemic unemployment fraud.

A federal grand jury charged Henderson with two counts of theft of government funds and ten counts of making false statements.

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Tom Basile of Newsmax talked with Peter Schweizer, author of “The Invisible Coup”, and President of the “Government Accountability Institute,” about the weaponization of immigration against the United States.

“Mass migration has evolved into a formidable political weapon, wielded against the United States to destabilize the country by both domestic and foreign elites. America is under attack. That is what New York Times best-selling author Peter Schweizer is arguing in his new book and he is here to tell us all about it,” Basile said.

“We tend to only look at the micro issues when it comes to immigration, not the macro ones. And in the book, you tackle perhaps one of the biggest macro issues. Who is sending millions of people here, and why?” Basile asked.

“We’ve been having a very important national debate in this country about immigration and that conversation is mostly been about you know, its effect on jobs and wages. How it might affect crime on our streets. Maybe some discussion about our culture,” Schweizer said.

“What we are ignoring is the weaponization of immigration. And what do I mean by that? I mean foreign actors and some people domestically who see immigration as a tool or a weapon to accomplish very specific ends,” Schweizer warned.

“And they tell us what those ends are. Those ends are the diminishing of American civilization, the advancement of their political networks within the United States. Their desire to sow chaos within our country,” Schweizer said.

“This includes neighbors like Mexico, but also rivals like China, and domestic progressive elites who gain a political advantage from it,” Schweizer warned.

Schweizer warned that the Mexican consulates are involved in operations like these to go against the US, even though Mexico’s President Scheinbaum acts like she is cooperating with the US when it comes to cartels and immigration.

“There is only certain things that Claudia Scheinbaum is gonna be able to do with regards to the drug cartels because she is connected to the drug cartels and I provide that evidence in the book,” Schweizer warned.

“When it comes to Mexico’s infrastructure in the United States, it’s vast. The UK and China have 6 and 7 consulates in the US. Mexico has 53 and they are meddling in our domestic politics. They are part of, according to officials themselves say they are part of the civil resistance to the Trump administration. They have held meetings in their consulates about how to turn states from red to blue. And they also have sovereignty goals as it relates to the United States,” Schweizer explained.

“They view this as an opportunity to extend what they call greater Mexico into the United States, and they intend to use that for their political benefit and to our detriment,” Schweizer warned.

Schweizer also explained that China has exploited birthright citizenship by sending Chinese Nationals to the US to give birth, return to China to raise the child, and then have them return to the US as a young adult.

“Their exploitation of immigration laws is more sophisticated than Mexico’s,” Schweizer said.

“China has encouraged this. Beginning in 2011, they were running articles in the ‘People’s Daily,’ the CCP’s main newspaper, encouraging members of the elite to come to the United States because their child could get US citizenship,” Schweizer explained.

Watch:

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