{"id":82248,"date":"2025-12-13T07:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82248"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:56:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:56:30","slug":"how-minnesotas-somali-fraudsters-spent-millions-intended-for-hungry-kids-on-lush-vacations-and-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/13\/how-minnesotas-somali-fraudsters-spent-millions-intended-for-hungry-kids-on-lush-vacations-and-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"How Minnesota&#8217;s Somali fraudsters spent millions intended for hungry kids on lush vacations and cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1SfyRA.img?w=1920&amp;h=1080&amp;q=60&amp;m=2&amp;f=jpg\" alt=\"Report: Minnesota fraudsters spent millions meant for hungry kids on lush buys\" width=\"577\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Minnesota fraudsters, mostly of Somali descent, spent millions meant to feed hungry children on over-the-top trips, flashy cars and other jaw-dropping purchases.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15375757\/Minnesota-Somali-Fraud-scheme-Feeding-Future-vacations-cars.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Minnesota fraudsters, mostly of Somali descent, spent millions meant to feed hungry children on over-the-top trips, flashy cars and other jaw-dropping purchases.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food-and-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Somali-Minnesota-Fraud.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82250,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82248\/revisions\/82250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}