On a recent edition of Real America, GAI Director of Research Seamus Bruner walked viewers through what federal prosecutors are calling a “brazen scheme of staggering proportions.”
Nearly $1 billion in COVID-19 relief funds was stolen in Minnesota, with the alleged operation involving assistance from local Somali political figures.
Bruner argued that the scandal reveals something larger than financial misconduct — it exposes a broader Democratic strategy built on cultivating dependent voting blocs and suppressing scrutiny to protect them.
“This reveals the entire invasion plan all along has been to import key voting blocs for the Democrats. Big voting blocs. Blocs all across the country. Then you give them as much taxpayer money as you can to buy their votes. And when anybody asks questions about it, you try to shut it down, because that’s how desperate they are,” Bruner said.
He said the Minnesota case shows what happens when oversight is weakened and political incentives outweigh accountability.
And it gets worse: the stolen taxpayer cash didn’t stay in the United States — a portion of the funds was routed overseas — including terror group Al Shabab — raising serious national-security implications.
Bruner connected the scandal to earlier work by the Government Accountability Institute, pointing out that previous GAI research had documented welfare fraud with links to extremist groups. He warned that even modest financial support can strengthen terror operations, making fraud of this scale especially dangerous.
“Back in 2018, one of the first reports I worked on with Peter Schweizer was called ‘EB Terrorism,’ and it was all about how the EB program and the SNAP program are riddled with not just fraud, but money that goes to terrorists. The Boston bombers were getting money!”
The segment closed with sharp calls for action. Bruner urged the government to revoke fraudulent immigration statuses tied to the scheme and to shut down the federal programs that were abused.
His message was direct: a scandal of this size demands consequences, and the system that enabled it needs to be dismantled before it happens again.
Watch the clip above.
