Prosecutor: More than Half of $18 Billion in Welfare Funds Lost to Fraud in Minnesota

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Half of $18 billion in federal welfare funds, which supports 14 Minnesota-run programs since 2018, has been lost to fraud, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said during a press conference Thursday.

People come from all over the world to steal millions from U.S. government Medicaid, housing, and other programs, he added.

“Minnesota has become a magnet for fraud, so much so that we have developed a fraud tourism industry — people coming to our state purely to exploit and defraud its programs,” Thompson said. “This is a deeply unsettling reality that all Minnesotans should understand.”

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