Governments have been handing out public work since men were laying stones on the Appian Way. And wherever government hands out money, people line up to get some.
Abraham Lincoln was said to have faced so many office-seekers and applicants for government favors that he finally complained, in his usual earthy fashion, that “there are too many pigs for the teats.”
The Democratic Socialists of America do not own the word ‘kindness.’
The pigs have multiplied.
During the New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt dramatically expanded Washington’s role in the economy. His administration also strengthened organized labor. The Wagner Act of 1935 guaranteed workers the right to organize and bargain collectively, and unions became a central pillar of the Democrat coalition that dominated American politics for decades.
The same political pattern appeared again during the War on Poverty.
Michael Harrington’s 1962 book, “The Other America,” helped force poverty onto the national political agenda. Lyndon Johnson’s anti-poverty task force later brought Harrington to Washington as a consultant.
The federal government also needed a way to measure poverty. That measure was developed principally by Mollie Orshansky, an economist at the Social Security Administration, whose thresholds became the basis of the official federal poverty measure.
Then came the Great Society: Medicare, Medicaid, food assistance, housing programs, and a vast expansion of Washington’s responsibility over Americans’ lives and livelihoods.
The political argument over those programs has raged ever since. But one fact should not be controversial: Americans have transferred staggering amounts of wealth through government because they believe people in genuine need should be helped.
That is kindness on an industrial scale. And wherever kindness operates on an industrial scale, thieves notice.
The Government Accountability Office estimates that the federal government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion every year to fraud, based on data from fiscal years 2018 through 2022.
That is not “waste” in the loose political sense. The GAO is estimating losses from deliberate fraud.
Look around the country. In Minnesota, the House Oversight Committee says at least $300 million was stolen through the Feeding Our Future child-nutrition scandal. The committee also says federal prosecutors estimate that fraud involving several high-risk Medicaid programs could total billions.
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In New York, federal prosecutors charged 15 defendants in health care schemes involving more than $10.6 billion in fraudulent billings to Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers.
Arizona’s Medicaid system was hit by another grotesque scheme aimed at programs serving Native Americans struggling with addiction. The state attorney general says losses from the wider scandal reached into the billions. In one recent federal case alone, an addiction-treatment operator was sentenced to 14 years after fraudulently billing Medicaid more than $69 million.
In California, Paul Richard Randall orchestrated a scheme that submitted nearly $270 million in false Medi-Cal claims for expensive medications that were often unnecessary or never provided. Medi-Cal actually paid about $179 million. Randall got 30 years in federal prison.
Across seven Southeastern states, the Justice Department this summer announced 17 cases involving more than $350 million in intended losses involving SNAP, housing benefits, Small Business Administration loans, and tax fraud.
This thieving from American kindness is nationwide.
The Trump administration has now made federal fraud a major target. This month, the government canceled Affordable Care Act policies covering roughly 760,000 people whose enrollments it says were fraudulent or otherwise ineligible. The administration projects about $2.2 billion in savings.
It turns out that industrial-scale redistribution creates industrial-scale opportunities for fraud.
The Biden-era immigration surge adds another political argument. The Congressional Budget Office estimates net immigration at roughly 1.5 million people in 2021, 2.8 million in 2022, 3.3 million in 2023, and 2.7 million in 2024. Much of that increase fell into the CBO’s “other foreign national” category, which includes people who entered without lawful status as well as others admitted under temporary authorities.
But illegal immigrants are generally barred from SNAP, nonemergency Medicaid, SSI, TANF, and most federal housing assistance. States can choose to spend their own taxpayers’ money anyway. California sure does, to the tune of $22 billion a year.
And immigration has a political consequence separate from voting. The census counts residents, not merely citizens, for congressional apportionment. Illegal aliens count in those population totals just like everyone else living in the country.
When Washington spends money on a colossal scale, responsibility becomes diffuse. A federal agency sends money to a state. The state sends it to a provider. The provider bills a program. A nonprofit administers another piece. Somewhere along that chain, the pigs find the teats.
Then everybody expresses shock.
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Perhaps the 50 states should shoulder far more responsibility for caring for their own poor. Perhaps Washington should stop pretending that every human problem requires another federal funding stream.
The alternative is industrial-scale socialism accompanied by industrial-scale fraud.
Something else eventually gets stolen, too: trust. Every dollar stolen from Medicaid makes taxpayers more suspicious of Medicaid. Every fake food-benefit claim makes it harder to defend assistance for the family who actually needs groceries. Every crooked nonprofit feeds the suspicion that “compassion” has become a business model.
That may be the most destructive theft of all.
The Democratic Socialists of America do not own the word “kindness.” Neither does any political party. Americans who work, pay taxes, and agree to help their neighbors have every right to demand that their money reach the people it was intended to help.
And they have every right to be furious with the pigs at the teats who steal it.
The Democrat mayor of St. Paul — who once proclaimed that she is "illegal in this country" — has been hit with a lawsuit by her own police chief over shocking sexual harassment accusations, according to new court documents. The police chief said the mayor has "embarked on a campaign" of retaliation.
On Wednesday, St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry filed the lawsuit against Mayor Kaohly Her over alleged "inappropriate" encounters, sexual harassment, and retaliation, NBC News reported.
'Why is Tim’s bigger?'
Mayor Her, 53, created "a hostile and demeaning environment" for the chief's staff by sending a meme about "good weinering," according to the 73-page lawsuit filed in Ramsey County District Court.
NBC News reported, "'Wienering' is an internet slang term for sexual intercourse and is frequently misspelled as 'weinering.'"
The Minnesota Star Tribune reported that Her made "unwanted and nonconsensual physical contact" with Henry by "placing her hand on his upper thigh beneath a conference-room table — not once, but twice — during a [St. Paul Police Department] budget meeting."
According to the complaint, Assistant Chief Paul Ford witnessed the contact.
According to the court filing, Her stood with Henry and Deputy Chief Tim Flynn during a police academy graduation on Feb. 19, 2026, and asked the police chief: "Why is Tim’s bigger?" The lawsuit asserts that Her made a "facial expression that suggested to Henry the comment was meant to be a sexual innuendo regarding the size of his penis," the New York Post reported.
Henry, who has led the St. Paul Police Department since 2022, asked the mayor what she was referring to, and she allegedly pointed toward the ribbon bar on his uniform, according to the court filing.
The court filing states that at least five police officers witnessed Her making loud grunting and moaning noises while exercising at the St. Paul police department gym. The lawsuit claims these workout sounds were intentionally exaggerated to sound sexual.
The left-wing mayor allegedly approached officers working out and called them "beefy," according to the lawsuit.
On multiple occasions in January 2026, Her allegedly photoshopped the faces of Henry and other police department members onto a variety of bodies, including boy band members, UFC fighters, and "bodybuilders with prominent bulges in the crotch area of their compression shorts," the court document states.
The suit, which names Her and the city as defendants, says the mayor printed the photoshopped images, placed them in gold frames, and displayed them throughout the police department. Some of the altered images were displayed in areas accessible to both sworn officers and civilians, showing pictures of police leadership "being mocked and sexualized" in public view, the complaint alleges.
The complaint claims that after two officers saw one of the doctored images, "they both remarked that their wives would be offended if they saw it," and Chief Henry's longtime partner described the images as "offensive and utterly inappropriate."
Her allegedly pasted her own headshot over official staff command portraits, department awards, and SWAT retirement plaques within the police department hallways, the lawsuit states.
The court filing states that Her scolded Henry for failing to find the photoshopped pictures amusing, telling the police chief he lacked "a sense of humor."
In December, Her and Henry met with St. Paul Port Authority President Todd Hurley at a cigar lounge to discuss possibly relocating the police station to downtown to help spur local business growth.
The Minnesota Star Tribune, citing the lawsuit, reported, "Her allegedly told Henry at that meeting that if she didn’t get her way, she would just tell people that Hurley 'grabbed her ass.'"
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Blaze News previously reported that Henry filed a formal complaint with the city attorney on April 1, claiming that the mayor sent "inappropriate, and indeed, unlawful text messages" to city staffers.
An investigation of the accusations was launched just six months into her term.
The lawsuit alleges that Her's administration then "embarked on a campaign" of retaliation.
"But instead of accountability, the retaliation began. Rather than confront Mayor Her’s misconduct, her administration, and those acting at her direction, embarked on a campaign to retaliate against and discredit Chief Henry," the lawsuit states.
The suit accuses St. Paul officials of violating the Minnesota Whistleblower Act when they "engaged in a series of retaliatory acts."
Minnesota Public Radio reported, "Henry says Her retaliated after he filed a human resources complaint by excluding him from personnel decisions, publicly criticizing his complaint, and giving raises to other members of the police command staff but not to him."
The complaint claims Her hired a private public relations firm to discredit Henry after the investigation began.
"[Henry] knew that accusing the Mayor of St. Paul of sexual harassment could jeopardize his career," the suit reads. "He reported it anyway. He did so because he recognized the seriousness of the misconduct, the vulnerability of those subjected to it, and the likelihood that the conduct would continue if no one spoke up."
The investigation into Her wrapped up less than a week before the lawsuit was filed, and a two-page summary of the outside investigation was released last Friday.
The misconduct investigation said Her "engaged in offensive and inappropriate behavior" in violation of St. Paul's workplace conduct policy, but that she did not sexually harass or retaliate against anyone.
Matt Wagenius, a spokesman for the mayor, said in a statement that the independent investigation "did not substantiate claims of sexual harassment or retaliation against any city employee."
Wagenius stated that the mayor "will continue to lead Saint Paul and follow the recommendations of the report."
"Beyond that, the City of Saint Paul doesn’t comment on active litigation," the statement concluded.
Chris Madel, Henry's attorney, told the Minnesota Star Tribune, "Axel Henry is an honorable man and a dedicated public servant. He didn’t come forward for attention or advantage — he came forward because what happened was wrong and needed to be reported."
Madel continued, "We look forward to proving our allegations in a court of law, where all evidence, not some sanitized summary written by the City about itself, can finally be heard."
Henry’s lawsuit requests that the city release the full report on its investigation into Mayor Her.
The suit also demands a jury trial to determine damages for "lost wages and benefits, emotional distress, humiliation, and harm to reputation."
Her's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
As Blaze News previously reported, Her shockingly admitted that she and her parents are in the United States illegally.
Her, who was born in Laos, defiantly claimed on the state House floor in June 2025: "And so, I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country."
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A former Wisconsin fifth-grade teacher admitted to sexually assaulting two 15-year-old boys, becoming the second educator from the same elementary school to be convicted of sex crimes involving minors, according to authorities. The teacher is also accused of kissing an 11-year-old student.
Abigail Faust, 25, pleaded guilty to child enticement and second-degree sexual assault of a child under 16 on Sept. 14, the Pioneer Press reported, adding that the prosecution dismissed "nearly a dozen" other charges, including allegations of her kissing a fifth-grade student. However, the charges were read in and still can be considered at sentencing.
'[The victim] explained that during this time period, he believed he and [Faust] were in an exclusive relationship and that [Faust] referenced the two having a child together some day.'
"What I did was not a mistake or a lapse of judgment," Faust said in St. Croix County Circuit Court, according to the Pioneer Press.
Faust admitted that she "violated trust" and has been undergoing therapy to understand "why I allowed myself to make those choices," the paper reported.
Faust is scheduled to appear in court for sentencing on Dec. 15.
Faust had been a fifth-grade teacher at the Rivercrest Elementary School in Hudson. However, she resigned in May 2024 after allegations that she kissed a fifth-grade boy.
KARE-TV reported that court documents allege a student told authorities that Faust kept him after class one day, pushed him against the wall, and kissed his cheek.
The boy later told a therapist that Faust kissed him on the lips after she had requested that he stay after class, and she left her phone number on his desk, according to the criminal complaint.
When police interviewed the boy about the incident, he was uncomfortable, scared, and cried when talking about the situation, the complaint said.
Parents of another boy saw reports about Faust and became alarmed since she had been the family's nanny since 2021.
The Pioneer Press reported that the teen told a Washington County (Minnesota) deputy that Faust sent provocative Snapchat messages to him in December 2024 followed by pictures of herself wearing lingerie.
Court documents note that the teen said Faust told him she knew what they were doing was "bad" and that they would both be in trouble if their actions came to light.
The criminal complaint states that Faust and the boy kissed and then "went through the motions of having sexual intercourse without actual penetration" in December 2024.
Faust and the boy she had babysat exchanged nude photos, according to court records.
Court docs say Faust told the minor they could have sex if he did well in the sport he was playing.
The Pioneer Press reported that Faust first sexually assaulted the boy in early January 2025 at her home in Hudson and then on two more occasions that month when she spent the night at his family's home.
Faust sexually assaulted the teen approximately twice a week in the months following, the complaint said.
"[The victim] explained that during this time period, he believed he and [Faust] were in an exclusive relationship and that [Faust] referenced the two having a child together some day," the criminal complaint states.
In April 2025, the boy went on a family trip to Florida, and Faust took care of the family's pets.
While the teen was on vacation, Faust began a "sexual relationship" with one of the boy's 15-year-old friends, the complaint states.
People magazine reported that Faust was charged in Washington County, Minnesota, in connection with the sexual misconduct with the 15-year-old boy for whom she worked as a nanny. She pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct earlier this month.
Faust is scheduled to be sentenced in that case on Dec. 8, according to the Pioneer Press.
Another fifth-grade teacher at Rivercrest Elementary School — 27-year-old Madison Bergmann — was charged and convicted of child sexual assault of one of her own students in a separate case.
Prosecutors said the criminal investigation into accusations against Bergmann exposed allegations against Faust.
The criminal complaint states that investigators discovered Faust and Bergmann were friends and texted each other about their inappropriate relationships with the students.
WEAU-TV previously reported that prosecutors accused Faust of knowing about the inappropriate relationship between Bergmann and Bergmann's victim and failed to notify authorities.
As Blaze News previously reported, Bergmann and her victim exchanged approximately 33,000 text messages, and the relationship became more sexual and explicit over time.
Bergmann pleaded guilty to child enticement and sexual misconduct involving an 11-year-old student.
Bergmann in December 2025 was sentenced to six years in prison.
St. Croix Circuit Judge Scott Nordstrand said Bergmann's crimes were "deliberate, purposeful," and "have been devastating to the victim, life-changing for that young boy," according to the Pioneer Press.
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Did an ICE agent spin up a wild story after shooting a Venezuelan national in Minnesota early this year? Or has he been scapegoated by a state filled with "rage" over immigration law enforcement in general?
Both federal and Hennepin County prosecutors have formally charged Christian Castro, 52, for allegedly lying to investigators, but one of his attorneys, David Lindenmuth, told Blaze News that his client has been unfairly targeted by "rabid" officials looking for someone to blame for other controversies associated with Operation Metro Surge.
'He was in pursuit of people in a vehicle who fled. ... There was a person on that porch that apparently had a weapon at some point.'
"They went through some pretty serious things up there with the federal law enforcement being sent up there. There's a couple of high-profile deaths," Lindenmuth said. "And because of that, I think that what happened, to be quite honest ... [is] Mr. Castro is basically the one that they chose to prosecute."
Lindenmuth did not name names regarding the "high-profile deaths," but the incident involving Castro occurred just one week after Renee Good was fatally shot on January 7.
On January 14, the Department of Homeland Security reported that an unnamed federal immigration officer had "fired a defensive shot to defend his life" during an immigration operation in Minnesota.
The officer had sustained a brutal attack, during which three individuals "ambushed" him and struck him with a "broom handle" and a "snow shovel," the DHS claimed on January 14.
Now, however, the Department of Justice claims the officer made the whole thing up. On September 2, a federal grand jury indicted Castro on six counts of making a materially false statement.
The federal indictment claims that on January 14, Castro told the FBI that while he was attempting to arrest one man, a second "unknown man grabbed a red broom off the front porch," "a third unknown man came out of the house, grabbed a black snow shovel," and all three ganged up on him.
Castro then claimed that "he tried to block strikes from the broom to his face with his left hand and reached for his gun," according to the indictment. The men then bolted for a nearby residence, and Castro "lifted his back off the ground and fired one round from his gun in the general direction of the men at the same time they started running."
Castro estimated to the FBI that he struggled on the ground with the original subject, identified as "A.A.," for "approximately three minutes," the indictment said.
According to federal prosecutors, none of Castro's claims are true. Instead, prosecutors claim: No one struck Castro with a broom or a snow shovel at that time; there was no third person involved; Castro was standing when he shot through the front door of the duplex residence, where the two men had already hidden themselves; and the scuffle on the ground lasted only 11 seconds.
A probable cause statement from Hennepin County indicated that, following a 911 call, Minneapolis police took "remote-control of a city camera" and angled it at the residence in time to capture much of the incident.
Castro's bullet struck one subject, identified as Julio Sosa-Celis in news reports but referred to as "J.S.-C." in the federal indictment. Sosa-Celis was wounded in the leg but has recovered from his injury.
The indictment describes J.S.-C. as a 24-year-old "citizen of Venezuela" who resided in the duplex.
The probable cause statement claimed that at the time of the shooting, Sosa-Celis and A.A. "were residing in Minnesota lawfully, having been granted 'Temporary Protected Status' by the United States Department of Homeland Security."
Sosa-Celis was arrested shortly after the incident, but all charges against him have since been dropped.
Though Lindenmuth admits that Castro "fired his weapon" that fateful night, Lindenmuth insisted that Castro is "innocent" and "had no intent to lie to federal agents."
"The federal government has to prove that Mr. Castro lied to them, and then the state government has to prove that he actually committed a crime," he explained to Blaze News. "The facts as I understand them is that he was in pursuit of people in a vehicle who fled, right? They fled. Then they fled on foot. There was a person on that porch that apparently had a weapon at some point."
In the county probable cause statement, the original subject of the operation — whom the federal indictment referred to as "A.A." — admitted to investigators on January 14 that he fled from the agents in his vehicle because "he feared for his life" and led them on a 25-minute chase. Once he arrived at his residence, he made a run for the front door but "slipped on the ice" and was then "tackled" by the ICE agent.
Video of the incident also shows that prior to the shooting, Sosa-Celis "stepped onto the front lawn of the home holding a snow shovel," the probable cause statement indicated.
Castro was originally indicted by the Hennepin County district attorney back in May on four counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of falsely reporting a crime.
He was arrested following the federal indictment and booked into Hennepin County Jail. Jail records show only the state charges.
Castro pled not guilty to the federal charges on Friday. He was released from jail after posting a $200,000 bond.
Castro is scheduled to appear in court again for the state charges on November 3. The DHS has suspended him without pay, Lindenmuth confirmed.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota, the DHS, the Hennepin County Prosecutor's Office, and the office of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (DFL) did not respond to requests for comment from Blaze News.
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Lindenmuth characterized the charges as a miscarriage of justice against a devoted American patriot who has been turned into a "political pawn" by bad actors.
"Mr. Castro was a 13-year veteran in the Army, a combat veteran deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he received a 100% disability rating as a result of his service for 70% for PTSD, 30% for traumatic brain injury, where he was hit by the last wave of a suicide bomber on the American embassy over there. And so this is a person who was injured serving his country," Lindenmuth claimed, adding that Castro has also spent a decade as an immigration officer.
"He has given his life to serving this country, and he's not [been given] the benefit of the protections of the presumption of innocence. ... Basically he's being tried out in public by the state of Minnesota, and it's sad to see.
"That's not how we're supposed to operate."
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Fraud continues to plague the state of Minnesota, extending even to a program created to offset the economic impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Hennepin County.
Back in March, Hennepin County commissioners approved $2 million for the program meant to help small businesses that had been affected by Operation Metro Surge, which began in December and ended in February.
'Clearly, fraud and people who want to commit it are still very active, as they do not fear the penalty.'
Three hundred applications were submitted to the Hennepin County relief program, each requesting a portion of the $2 million fund. However, after a "rigorous review," the county has now ended the program, Hennepin County chief public relations officer Carolyn Marinan said in a statement to Fox 9.
Only about 80 applications had been approved, receiving a total of about $500,000. More than 200 applications were flagged for possible fraud, Fox 9 reported.
Hennepin County Commissioner Jeffrey Lunde claimed that despite the flood of allegedly fraudulent applications, no money was actually lost to fraudsters. "We caught the fraud before we spent any money," he said, according to CBS Minnesota.
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It appears officials found many applications suspicious almost immediately, as the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office claimed it was asked to open an investigation into "potential criminal activity" back in June, according to CBS Minnesota. The sheriff's office said it requested "pertinent documents" related to the case a month later, and once it receives all of those documents, it will open an investigation.
"Clearly, fraud and people who want to commit it are still very active, as they do not fear the penalty. Thanks to county staff and our partner, we were able [to] thwart these efforts by devoting more time and effort to tighter oversight, in-person inspections, and increased scrutiny," Lunde said in a statement to FOX 9.
"As the fraudsters continue their efforts, we need to ramp up our game as well. This is the new normal for all levels of government in Minnesota."
CBS Minnesota reported that $1 million in unused funds is still available for area small businesses, while another $500,000 will be used "to provide consulting and promotional support for businesses."
County PR officer Marinan said, "We’ve moved beyond the urgent need for immediate grant relief and are focusing our efforts on strategies that support the long-term vitality and sustainability of businesses."
Of note, anti-ICE agitators also surged to Hennepin County during Operation Metro Surge. One hotel alone sustained thousands of dollars in damage during a violent anti-ICE riot in downtown Minneapolis in early January, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.
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The fiancée of a 45-year-old man said he accidentally bumped into a teen at the Minnesota State Fair on Saturday — after which he was punched, and then a gang of as many as a dozen "kicked and stomped" on his face.
As a result, the victim's jaw reportedly was fractured in multiple places, which required emergency reconstructive jaw surgery, according to the Pioneer Press.
'It was just an absolutely senseless act of violence.'
Heather Hoffman told the paper that her fiancé, Sammy Kimbrough, was walking with two friends when he accidentally bumped into another person, “which is inevitable when you’re in a crowd."
The Pioneer Press said attendance at the Fair throughout Saturday was 198,842.
“This young man ended up getting into a verbal conversation with Sammy, becoming aggressive,” Hoffman added to the paper.
"That bump ... from my fiancé to a teenager escalated," Hoffman told WCCO-TV.
She told the Pioneer Press that “Sammy had tried to say ‘excuse me,’ ‘back up,’ when he then got punched.”
That's when others "kicked and stomped on his face," Hoffman added to the station.
She told the paper that the youth was with a group of about eight to 12 people, “and once one of them punched him hard enough and knocked him down, others came and stomped his face into the pavement when he was already unconscious, causing his jaw to be fractured in multiple places, ending up in emergency reconstructive jaw surgery."
The Minnesota State Fair Police told the Pioneer Press that no one had been arrested as of Wednesday morning.
Kimbrough was released from the hospital after two days, the paper said, adding that his mouth is bandaged shut and — because one of the fractures in his jaw was so high — there are bands to hold his jaw in place with the other side where surgical plates were placed.
“Once that that fracture heals enough for him to open his mouth, he then will have very extensive dental surgery as he has a whole lot of broken, knocked-out and loose teeth ...” Hoffman noted to the Pioneer Press.
Kimbrough works for a construction company as a mason tender and has insurance, the paper said, but Hoffman said she expects his medical bills will be expensive.
“He is still in excruciating pain,” Hoffman also told the paper.
"It was just an absolutely senseless act of violence.”
She added to the Pioneer Press that Kimbrough works summer security during Friday night car shows at Roddy’s Bar & Grill in North St. Paul and knows how to de-escalate situations, which is what he was trying to do Saturday.
Hoffman also told the paper that she wants arrests and prosecutions in the case; the Minnesota State Fair Police Department said anyone with information about the incident can contact them at 651-288-4500.
She added to the Pioneer Press that they go to the Fair every year and usually feel safe there, but Kimbrough has “already mentioned that he’s done with the Minnesota State Fair for the rest of his life."
Roddy’s Bar & Grill is planning a raffle for Kimbrough on Oct. 10 to raise money for his medical bills and lost wages, the paper said, adding that Hoffman is a bartender at Neumann’s Bar & Grill in North St. Paul, where they’re collecting money.
“Many of you know Sammy and our amazing bartender Heather. They are wonderful people who are always there when anyone needs, right now they need us,” the bar posted on social media, according to the Pioneer Press.
“We have a donation bucket going behind the bar, and it will keep going as long as it needs to be!”
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President Donald Trump has revived speculation about whether Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) might be visited by consequence for alleged immigration fraud. On Sunday, the president shared a provocative Aug. 12 report from Just the News with the headline "ICE refuses to disclose records on Ilhan Omar fraud probe, cites ongoing ‘enforcement proceedings.'"
Years after coming to America as a refugee, Omar, a Somali-born ethno-nationalist, reportedly took out a marriage license to marry a man named Ahmed Hirsi. In 2002, she married Hirsi in a Muslim ceremony and had children with him but did not initially marry him legally.
'You are not allowed to marry your brother.'
After supposedly breaking it off with Hirsi, in 2009, Omar legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi — a British-Somali national reportedly identified by numerous Somalis as Omar's alleged brother. Omar allegedly separated from Elmi with a Muslim divorce in 2011, reunited and had another child with Hirsi in 2012, then formally divorced Elmi in 2017, reported the Center for Immigration Studies.
The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board revealed in 2019 that Omar and Hirsi filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015 — while Omar was still legally married to Elmi. The Hill noted at the time that filing a joint tax return where no legal marriage exists violates both federal and state law.
Abdihakim Osman, a self-identified friend of Omar, claimed to the Daily Mail in 2020 that Omar had confirmed that Elmi was her brother and that she married him so he could remain in the United States.
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Omar called the marriage-related allegations "absolutely false and ridiculous" in a 2016 statement, adding that "insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive." There has been no concrete proof, DNA or otherwise, yet brought forward to verify that Omar's legal husband from 2009-2017 was her biological brother.
In December, border czar Tom Homan said that the Trump administration was investigating Omar for alleged immigration fraud. Trump stated the following month that the Justice Department was "looking at" the Minnesota Democrat.
When asked in May about a possible forthcoming indictment against Omar for alleged immigration fraud, Vice President JD Vance said both that "it certainly seems like something fishy is there" and that it was something "the Department of Justice is looking at right now."
According to the Just the News report that Trump referenced on Sunday, Just the News filed a Freedom of Information request in January for any records related to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation into allegations of immigration fraud by Omar.
In response to the request, the outlet learned that ICE may have "enforcement proceedings" underway in connection with Omar.
ICE told Just the News in May, "ICE has determined that the information you requested is being withheld in full pursuant to Title 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(A). Disclosure of any responsive records at this time could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings."
ICE noted that FOIA Exemption 7(A) "applies to records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes when their release could disrupt such proceedings."
According to the DOJ,
Exemption 7(A) requires a two-step analysis. First, there must be a "reasonable likelihood" of a pending or contemplated law enforcement proceeding. Second, release of the information must be reasonably expected to cause some articulable harm to that proceeding.
When asked for comment, ICE and the White House referred Blaze News to the Department of Homeland Security.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson stated, "As a matter of policy, DHS does not comment on specific investigative techniques, ongoing investigations, or potential future actions. No one, including members of Congress, [is] above the law.”
The Justice Department told Blaze News, "We don't comment on the existence of investigations or lack thereof."
Trump has made no secret that he dislikes Rep. Ilhan Omar and is skeptical about her legal status in the country.
In November, for instance, he wrote, "The worst 'Congressman/woman' in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how 'badly' she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation."
Trump suggested further that Omar "should go back!"
Omar is fighting to keep her seat in Congress and is scheduled to face off with challenger John Nagel, a Republican who served for three decades as a state trooper, in November.
Editor's note: This article has been edited after publication to reflect that the Just the News report was published on August 12, not August 11, and to incorporate comment from the DHS and the DOJ.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) endorsed Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota's Democratic Senate primary in May, claiming that the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement defender of child sex-rejection surgeries "fights from the heart and knows how to win."
Warren appears to have gifted Flanagan with something even better than her endorsement: not being a real Indian.
'Elizabeth Warren is doing a land acknowledgment on Flanagan's head.'
The Massachusetts senator spent decades masquerading as an American Indian for apparent personal gain. Warren:
When first running for the U.S. Senate in 2012, Warren told reporters, "Being Native American has been part of my story, I guess, since the day I was born."
The sham was exposed, however, thanks in part to President Donald Trump, who famously challenged Warren, whom he called "Pocahontas," to get a DNA test to prove she is Native American. The results revealed that she is only 1/1,024th Native American, if at all.
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Warren's identity crisis has presented Flanagan with an opportunity to characterize her potential win in November as historic.
Although she was raised by her white mother, Flanagan appears to have embraced the cause of her late father, Marvin Manypenny — an American Indian sovereignty activist who grew up on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota.
While Flanagan has certainly played up her Indian heritage throughout her political career, she is leaning especially hard into it ahead of the midterms.
The Senate candidate — who in 2020 joined Warren at the Democratic National Convention's Native American Caucus meeting — recently donned her bead earrings and told the transvestite Minnesota state representative formerly known as Christopher Finke (DFL) that she is a member of White Earth and her "family is the Wolf Clan."
Flanagan's campaign site similarly emphasizes her identity, stating, "Born into an Indigenous and Irish family, Peggy is Ojibwe and a member of the White Earth Nation. Her Anishinaabe name means 'speaks in a loud and clear voice woman.'"
In a July 15 post, Flanagan wrote, "In almost 250 years, there’s never been a Native woman serving in the U.S. Senate. I’m thinking of my daughter — who just got her first jingle dress — and whether or not she will see Indigenous women in all parts of our government."
After Flanagan won her party's nomination on Tuesday, her campaign fundraising operation sent out a variation of this message, stating, "Friend, in almost 250 years, there’s never been a Native woman serving in the U.S. Senate. It’s time to change that," reported the New York Post.
Flanagan's quest to take Warren's unofficial former title prompted some mockery online.
"Has anybody checked on Elizabeth Warren?" the Republican Party wrote on X.
Michigan College Republicans shared an AI illustration of Warren weeping in traditional Native American attire.
"Elizabeth Warren is doing a land acknowledgment on Flanagan's head," joked New York Post columnist Kirsten Fleming.
Warren's office did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.
The Republican set to face off with Flanagan in the general election is Michele Tafoya, an award-winning sports journalist who wants tax cuts, the deportation of foreign fraudsters and illegal aliens, stronger elections, and men out of women's sports.
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