Treasury probes Minnesota tax dollars allegedly sent to Al-Shabaab

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday launched a federal investigation into claims that Minnesota taxpayer {dollars} had been siphoned to the terrorist group Al-Shabaab underneath the Biden administration and Governor Tim Walz — an allegation he stated requires pressing investigation.

“At my course, @USTreasury is investigating allegations that underneath the reckless mismanagement of the Biden administration and Governor Tim Walz, the tax {dollars} of hardworking Minnesotans might have been diverted to the terrorist group Al-Shabaab,” Bessent wrote on X. “Due to the management of @POTUS @realDonaldTrumpwe act rapidly to make sure that US taxes don’t fund acts of worldwide terror.

“We’ll share our findings as our investigation continues,” he added.

MINNESOTA TAX DOLLARS GIVEN TO AL-SHABAAB TERROR GROUP, MOVES REPORT

Walz’s workplace advised Fox Information Digital that Walz stated final week that if a hyperlink had been discovered between Minnesota tax {dollars} and Al-Shabaab, he would welcome an investigation.

Final month, an investigation performed by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo of the Manhattan Institute uncovered an internet of fraud involving Minnesota’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Providers program, Feeding Our Future and different organizations in a bombshell report.

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Thorpe and Rufo famous that members of Minnesota’s Somali group dedicated fraud in lots of circumstances. They added that federal counterterrorism sources confirmed that hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in stolen cash had been despatched again to Somalia, and that this was how Al-Shabaab obtained the cash.

Fox Information Digital’s Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.