U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel on Wednesday sentenced Salim Said, the co-owner of the former Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis and a major player in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, to 30 years in federal prison. “You took more than taxpayer money…
October 28, 2026 / 1:18 PM CDT / AP A man who played a major role in defrauding a federal food program in Minnesota was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison, the latest punishment in a sprawling scheme to collect millions of dollars during the…
The Hennepin County Attorney's Office is charging two people with unlawful voting and identity theft during the Minnesota primary election in August. Conservative influencers James O'Keefe and Cam Higby posted videos on social media, saying they planned to go to…
October 27, 2026 / 8:01 PM CDT / CBS Minnesota Minnesota lawmakers with broad bipartisan support this year approved a new watchdog agency tasked with fighting fraud that's plagued social services programs in the state for years. The Office of Inspector General is set to…
October 26, 2026 / 6:39 PM CDT / CBS Minnesota With the midterm elections a little more than a week away, attack ads in Minnesota's attorney general race are often taken out of context, misleading and, in some cases, partly or entirely untrue. Most come…
October 26, 2026 / 6:03 PM CDT / CBS Minnesota Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed two civil lawsuits alleging a Minneapolis bakery, a now-defunct nonprofit and others submitted false claims worth millions of dollars to the Minnesota Department of Education. One lawsuit says…
Joe Thompson stands by everything. The former acting U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota confirmed in an interview at MinnPost Festival in Minneapolis on Saturday that: Thompson even bluntly answered why he thought so many of the defendants are Somali.
Saying criminals steal hundreds of billions each year from taxpayers, the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division held a press conference on Wednesday to announce the "first-ever national tax fraud enforcement surge in the U.S." while outlining more than 1,000 fraud-enforcement…
Updated on: April 16, 2025 / 9:50 AM CDT / CBS Minnesota The ethics standards in the Minnesota Legislature are facing fresh scrutiny after a prominent state senator didn't disclose a former legal client poised to benefit from a bill he sponsored. DFL Senate President…
MINNEAPOLIS (Valley News Live) — Two Twin Cities men have admitted to running a scheme that siphoned more than $500,000 from Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services program, according to federal... MINNEAPOLIS (Valley News Live) — Two Twin Cities men have admitted to running a…
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