Ohio attorney Mehek Cooke joined Fox News Digital and warned that the social services scandal within the Somali community in Minnesota is only the ‘tip of the spear’ as fraud in the Buckeye State is just beginning to unfold.
The Gateway Pundit reported that the sprawling Somali-linked fraud networks may be far larger and more deeply embedded than the public was ever told.
What was originally reported as a $250 million “Feeding Our Future” scandal and later acknowledged as a $1 billion fraud may now exceed $8 BILLION, according to whistleblowers and new federal investigations.
In an explosive announcement on X, U.S. Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler revealed that numerous individuals and nonprofits indicted in the Minnesota COVID-relief scandal also received SBA PPP loans and other federal payouts, suggesting a coordinated, multi-agency exploitation of pandemic programs.
Cooke confirmed to Fox News that “providers within the Ohio Somali community have confided to her that they have been pressured to join in a ‘massive’ Medicaid fraud scheme that involves doctors “rubber stamping” home healthcare payouts to the family members of elderly individuals for fake medical conditions.”
She explained that scammers in the community have been exploiting a loophole in Ohio’s Medicaid program that allows individuals to receive Medicaid payments, totaling as much as $91,000 per year per individual, for care they are supposedly providing to a family member. Doctors who approve these payments in turn receive kickbacks themselves, according to Cooke.
“They’re just rubberstamping a lot of these. And then that same individual, a week later, that’s supposed to be bedridden, is all over social media, whether they’re out dancing at a party or something like that. So, the symptoms aren’t really adding up at the end of the day.”
Cooke noted that she believes that “the problem today is not the community; it’s actually the criminals within the Somalian community that have exploited Ohio’s Medicaid program because we have a system right now that’s one of the easiest in the Midwest to game.”
Cooke noted that the whistleblowers who shared the damning information did so at significant risk.
“Most of the individuals who have come to talk to me, Peter, are terrified.”
“They have said, ‘I will be stoned to death if I show my face on camera or expose what’s happening.’”
Watch:
It looks like Somali refugees in Columbus, Ohio are also committing massive amounts of fraud.
Our mass migration problem is not isolated to Minnesota and blue states.pic.twitter.com/zPzFBJLMv9
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) December 10, 2025
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