Leftist Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has always been a font of controversy — he was a member of the Nation of Islam and defended its antisemitic leader, Louis Farrakhan, he’s suggested that U.S. foreign policy is overly influenced by Israel, he’s faced allegations of domestic abuse, he compared the George W. Bush Administration to the Nazis, and — wait for it — he pushed Obama to be more progressive. Seriously.
Now he’s taking a victory lap over his role in investigating and prosecuting the massive social services fraud uncovered in the Gopher state, largely carried out by Somali immigrants, which some estimate may have cost as much as $9 billion. However, many are pointing out a salient fact: it was under Keith’s watch — and frenetic Gov. Tim Walz’s — that the rampant corruption was allowed to flourish.
Here’s Keith crowing about his “fast” response:
Scammers thought Minnesotans were easy targets.
— Keith Ellison (@keithellison) December 19, 2025
They were wrong.
From student loan scams to fake utility callers, we shut them down this year — fast. pic.twitter.com/fNVqctMy8N
Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz had thoughts:
😳 Arsonist claims to be fire fighter….
SOMALI STEAL: How They Did It: Former Fed Prosecutor Reveals How 'Shockingly Easy' It Was to Pull Off MN Fraud Scam
Cruz was far from alone in mocking the far-left AG. While Ellison was in charge, taxpayer money flowed out like water to illegitimate enterprises. Former sportscaster and rumored Senate candidate in Minnesota Michele Tafoya said simply, “Seriously?”
Rep. Tom Emmer (MN-06) was even more pointed, blasting Ellison by noting that all this happened under his leadership:
Spare us your feign outrage, Keith. You’ve done nothing but enable and exacerbate fraud in Minnesota.
— Tom Emmer (@GOPMajorityWhip) December 19, 2025
This all happened on your watch. Welcome to the party. https://t.co/1wpAG06UI7
Steve Guest, whose X profile describes himself as a “conservative communicator,” had this to say:
The audacity to post this trash. Per CBS News, $9 BILLION worth of Medicaid fraud happened right under your nose.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) December 19, 2025
And the largest funder of Al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia is the Minnesota taxpayer. pic.twitter.com/cTZ7YaPkfb
Our friends at our sister site Townhall chimed in as well. "You’re kidding right?" TH columnist Dustin Grage posted on X. "They literally created a new term called ‘fraud tourism’ to describe how easy it was to defraud Minnesota taxpayers."
Ellison’s office issued a mealy-mouthed, word salad statement to Fox News Digital as the criticism poured in, but I won’t bother to quote it, because the fact remains that this all happened when he and Walz were manning the helm. I give much more credence to former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab’s reaction:
"Tim Walz was responsible for putting into place the commissioners of the different departments who are allowing all this money to go out, and then you had Keith Ellison, who not only should have done something about stopping the fraud once he had a sense that things were happening, he should have started to investigate it," Teirab told Fox News Digital in an interview earlier this month.
What went down in Minnesota is emblematic of Democrat/progressive failures nationwide. Loudmouths like Keith Ellison have no reason to tout their successes — he and Jazz Hands Walz should be hiding in the closet now that the unbelievable extent of their failures has become clear.
“Dereliction of duty” is perhaps too kind a phrase.
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