Minnesota State Rep. Kristin Robbins has unleashed a stunning revelation, confirming that credible whistleblowers came forward with evidence that Gov. Tim Walz and his administration used threats of “racism” and “Islamophobia” labels to suppress exposures of massive Somali-linked fraud schemes draining taxpayer dollars.
In an appearance on Fox Business, Robbins detailed how the protective shield around certain communities enabled rampant abuse of state and federal funds for years.
“We have dozens of credible whistleblower reports saying that exact same thing. That people were told not to say anything because they’d be called racist or Islamophobic or it would hurt the state,” Robbins stated.
“And so people tried to come forward but were shut down and that protection of a particular community is what really allowed this fraud to flourish in Minnesota for years!”
This bombshell aligns with ongoing scrutiny of Walz’s oversight failures, as Robbins, who chairs the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee, has repeatedly blasted the governor for turning a blind eye to red flags.
Recent reports indicate Robbins warned Walz directly about alleged fraud in social services, including daycare and adult care programs, but claims her alerts went unheeded.
“Minnesota fraud was not a ‘hidden secret’,” she emphasized in the interview, pointing to leadership lapses that let schemes balloon unchecked.
The slur threats are also not isolated.
The revelations build on citizen journalist Nick Shirley’s explosive investigations, which uncovered over $110 million in questionable payments to Somali-operated businesses appearing largely inactive.
The FBI now views this as the “tip of the iceberg,” with Director Kash Patel vowing to “continue to follow the money” in an ongoing probe.
Shirley’s fieldwork exposed patterns like shared addresses, recycled officers, and shell companies—hallmarks of organized fraud networks potentially diverting funds overseas, including to terrorist groups.
As this scandal began to explode Walz attempted damage control earlier this month. stating, “I am accountable for this, and more importantly, I am the one that will fix it.”
Yet, he now appears to be attempting to deflect the blame onto… President Trump.
Yet critics argue his administration’s inaction speaks louder, especially as federal investigators ramp up entity mapping to trace circular payments and minimal operations.
The Trump administration has seized on the scandal, using it to justify immigration raids targeting Somali communities implicated in the fraud, signaling a shift toward stricter enforcement against welfare abuse.
This protectionist playbook—silencing dissent with weaponized smears—echoes broader Democrat tactics to shield failed policies on immigration and entitlements. As Robbins’ committee pushes for more hearings, including on adult day services, the pressure builds for real consequences.
With billions potentially siphoned off, far exceeding Somalia’s GDP in scale, Minnesotans, and all Americans, deserve transparency and justice.
Now even more citizen journalists are joining the effort to dismantle the networks exploiting America’s generosity and hold enablers accountable before billions more in taxpayer funds vanishes into the void.
In the latest sign that the AI data center buildout party is reaching dizzying heights,The Information reports that private equity firm Brookfield is launching its own cloud computing business to challenge the hyperscaler oligopoly of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. The real highlight may not be the fact that a non-tech company is crossing over from facility leasing to chip leasing, but more so that Brookfield owns the majority of Westinghouse, the hottest energy technology company in North America. The reactor developer poised to eventually provide truly carbon-free baseload power to the US grid to meet the demand of AI compute could now have a serious power offtaker lined up; not only for their signature AP1000, but their AP300 as well.
Brookfield is tying its new cloud venture, named Radiant, to a $10 billion AI infrastructure fund with priority leasing rights to data centers built under the fund. The firm is targeting governments and corporations demanding sovereign, locally-stored data. Global head of AI infrastructure Sikander Rashid discusses managing compute clusters in-house to avoid reliance on fragmented partners. Projects are already underway in France, Qatar, and Sweden, with Nvidia even chipping in investment and expertise for server setups.
Most observers are in agreement at this point: gas now, nuclear tomorrow. Natural gas turbines can deploy relatively quickly to a new power consumer, and at this point developers are literally bolting jet engines to the ground just to make more electrons as fast as possible.
The major consumers want nuclear more than anything though, with Constellation Energy highlighting this fact on their last earnings call: “Today, we’re seeing a far more sophisticated and aggressive customer walk through our door. They have done deals. They understand pricing and terms. They know they want nuclear”
As the 51% owner of Westinghouse, Brookfield is uniquely positioned to start the long-lead work of preparing nuclear energy to power its data centers in the 2030s. Westinghouse just inked an $80 billion deal with the U.S. government for new reactor and its AP1000 design is primed for the AI era’s massive baseload needs. Brookfield could also assist with fast-tracking development of the AP300, an additional option for the data center power struggle.
The AP300 is a 300 MWe reactor announced back in 2023, and shares the same power capacity range as GE Vernova’s BWRX-300 and Holtec’s SMR-300. The AP300 is based on the AP1000, utilizing identical major equipment, structural components, passive safety systems, fuel, and instrumentation and control systems. daniIt’s an effort to minimize technological risk and streamline licensing, as the AP300 can inherit some of the AP1000’s regulatory approvals. Westinghouse anticipates receiving a design approval for their reactor by 2027.
It's not exactly an ace in the hole though. Developing in any of the countries listed above will be extremely difficult in terms of competition. France has their own reactor industry with the EDF, and Sweden is in discussions with two reactor developers, GE Vernova and Rolls-Royce, for deploying nuclear energy across the country. That's not to say that a data center offering to bring its own power will not provide a shake of the bottle to the situation in any of those countries.
Considering the nuclear executive orders signed by Trump back in May explicitly discuss the intent to leverage Westinghouse reactor designs as political tools for foreign nations, it's extremely likely that no lever will be spared to achieve success in this game of nuclear politics against Russia and China.
Since he dropped the news around the year-end holidays and his inauguration, you may have missed how Zohran Mamdani saved many of his most radical appointments for last.
On Friday, the new mayor named Ali Najmi to chair his Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, which picks judges for family and civil courts and interim appointees for criminal courts; Najmi is big on making the bench more “diverse.”
Mamdani outright ordered the committee to find more diversity picks and to get public defenders and other anti-prosecution types more involved in judicial selections: Expect the city’s courts to become even more eager to put criminals back on the streets.
The day before, he picked Cea Weaver to run his Office to Protect Tenants: She’s a proud radical who has called for the city to force private landlords out of business so it can seize their buildings; that’s partly why she praises his rent-freeze plans as likely to “deepen the crises” in the housing marketplace.
Just before the New Year, Mamdani chose Kamar Samuels as schools chancellor.
On top ofwanting to endGifted & Talented programs, Samuels is so obsessed with racial re-engineering of the school system that he’s won praise from far-left “1619 Project” chief Nikole Hannah-Jones.
And before that came the mayor’s elevation of two radical lawyers to the city’s top legal jobs.
Tapping Steven Banks as corporation counsel is putting the fox in charge of the henhouse: The longtime Legal Aid attorney spent decades suing the city to expand homeless services into a multibillion-dollar industry; as homeless czar in the de Blasio years, he doubled homelessness spending (without, of course, reducing homelessness).
Banks has said that government ought to use eminent domain — seizing private property — to provide free housing for everyone.
Ramzi Kassem will serve as City Hall’s chief counsel; he recently defended Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil and before that an al Qaeda terrorist who pleaded guilty to planning a major terrorist attack on a French ship.
As a student at Columbia in 1998, Kassem wrote an article blaming “European Jews” for all the problems in the Middle East; he was a top Biden adviser on immigration, when the main policy was to let everyone in, no questions asked.
Then, late on Friday, the new mayor named political organizer Tascha Van Auken to run a new Office of Mass Engagement, which seems designed to use taxpayer funds to ensure that radical activists have maximum pull with every city agency.
Yes, Mamdani has hired some de Blasio and even Adams retreads, but he plainly really means his inaugural vow to govern as a Democratic Socialist.
He’s going to deliver for the far left at the expense of the other 99% of New Yorkers.
Bishop Robert Barron, a prominent Catholic leader, slammed socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inaugurationline promoting the “warmth of collectivism,” saying, “God’s sake, spare me.”
During his inaugural address, the newly minted socialist mayor and New York’s first Muslim mayor, declared, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”
The line prompted immediate backlash from many conservatives who expressed alarm at such a phrase being used by the leader of America’s biggest city.
Barron, a popular podcaster and founder of “Word on Fire,” took to X to say Mamdani’s declaration “took my breath away.”
“He said he intended to replace ‘the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.’ Collectivism in its various forms is responsible for the deaths of at least 100 million people in the last century,” Barron wrote.
“For God’s sake, spare me the ‘warmth of collectivism.’
“Socialist and communist forms of government around the world today — Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc. — are disastrous,” explained Barron.
“Catholic social teaching has consistently condemned socialism and has embraced the market economy, which people like Mamdani caricature as ‘rugged individualism.’
“In fact, it is the economic system that is based upon the rights, freedom and dignity of the human person.”
Barron was not the only critic who voiced alarm about Mamdani’s declaration.
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis wrote on X that the “warmth” of collectivism “always requires coercion and force.”
“How many dead over the past 100 years due to collectivist ideologies?” DeSantis added.
Prominent Catholic leader Bishop Robert Barron called out Mayor Zohran Mamdani when he remarked on “warmth of collectivism” in his inauguration speech.Andrew Schwartz / SplashNews.com
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, chimed in, “When communists rule, individual rights — invariably — are taken away.”
Since being sworn in at midnight on New Year’s Day, Mamdani has already taken several controversial actions, including targeting city landlords and housing development through new executive orders.
Mamdani announced three housing-related executive orders, starting with the revival of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, which he said will focus on resolving complaints and holding landlords accountable for hazardous conditions.
According to Mamdani, the second executive order creates a LIFT task force, or a land-inventory effort designed to leverage city-owned land and accelerate housing development.
On X, Barron said Mamdani’s declaration “took my breath away.”flickr/ARC Forum
He said the task force will review city-owned properties and identify sites suitable for housing development no later than July 1.
The third executive order created a SPEED task force, which Mamdani said stands for Streamlining Procedures to Expedite Equitable Development.
He said the task force will work to remove permitting barriers that slow housing construction.
Both task forces will be overseen by Deputy Mayor for Housing and Planning Lila Joseph, he said.
Mamdani has also been criticized for revoking all orders issued by his predecessor, Mayor Eric Adams, including one that barred city agencies from boycotting or divesting from Israel.
Another rescinded order had directed the NYPD to bolster enforcement near religious sites by establishing protest-free buffer zones near churches, synagogues and mosques.
These revocations were criticized by the city’s right-leaning Jewish leaders.
Mamdani has been accused by critics, such as Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., of being a terrorist sympathizer.
He has repeatedly described Israel as an apartheid state, accused it of committing genocide in Gaza, and said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested.
Mamdani has also said he will not tolerate antisemitism in New York and vowed to increase funding to combat hate crimes.
Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani’s office for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Across the country, a growing number of patients are turning to injectable fillers made from the dearly departed’s donated fat in order to lift, plump and sculpt their bodies — including for hot-ticket procedures like Brazilian butt lifts (BBL) and breast enhancements.
“Many of us in New York City are very excited about this, particularly because our patients are sometimes very thin or maybe have already had liposuction,” Dr. Melissa Doft, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Manhattan, said in an Instagram video.
For procedures like BBL, fat is usually extracted from the patient via liposuction and then reinjected into the desired area — so for those who don’t have enough to suck out, Doft said, “It’s off-the-shelf-fat.”
The injectable filler is made from donated tissue from human cadavers that’s been specially processed for cosmetic use.Photographee.eu – stock.adobe.com
The filler, called AlloClae, hit the US market last year — but it still isn’t widely available.
“I’d say less than probably 5% of board certified plastic surgeons have it,” Dr. Sachin M. Shridharani, who began offering the procedure at his Manhattan clinic, Luxurgery, in early 2025 as part of a small clinical trial measuring its outcomes in fixing “hip dips,” told The Post.
“With the ones that do have it across the country, there’s tremendous amount of demand,” he added, noting he’s done more than 50 procedures in the past year. “There have been multiple times that we’ve actually run out of product.”
AlloClae is made from sterile fat harvested from cadavers and can be administered through minimally invasive, in-office injections by a qualified provider, without the need for general anesthesia.
Before it’s injected, the donor fat undergoes a multi-step cleansing, sterilization and purification process that removes cellular debris, DNA and other elements that could trigger a negative immune response in the body.
“We ensure all our tissue is consented to for aesthetic use,” Caro Van Hove, president of Tiger Aesthetics, the company behind AlloClae, said in an interview with The Cut, meaning the people giving their bodies didn’t think they were donating them to medical or scientific discovery.
“The donor material is meticulously screened in accordance with regulated and high-quality tissue practices,” Van Hove added.
AlloClae has been steadily growing in popularity since it hit the US market last year.Schulman Plastic Surgery
The process preserves the tissue’s key structural elements, resulting in a bioactive filler designed to add long-lasting volume and structure anywhere fat naturally exists in the body.
“It actually helps the patient’s own collagen to grow in as well,” Dr. Stephen T. Greenberg, a New York plastic surgeon, said in a YouTube video while performing the procedure.
“It’s no different from situations where a patient needs additional cartilage but doesn’t want to undergo a rib graft … in those cases, we use cadaver cartilage grafts.”
Dr. Sachin M. Shridharani
“This is great for somebody who doesn’t want to use their own fat or doesn’t have enough of their own fat in order to do a Brazilian butt lift or a buttock augmentation,” he continued.
At Shridharani’s practice, demand has been especially strong for AlloClae injections in the buttocks, breasts and hips.
“We are also getting a lot of patients coming to us that have had, unfortunately, poorly done liposuction with tons of contour regularities that need fat grafting back in because of grooves, contour irregularities over-resection,” he noted.
While the idea of using cadaver donor fat can initially make some patients uneasy, Shridharani said those concerns tend to fade after a thorough discussion of the product.
“I think transparency is key,” he said. “It’s tissue that’s been gifted in kind, and it’s no different from situations where a patient needs additional cartilage but doesn’t want to undergo a rib graft and the scarring that comes with harvesting their own tissue — in those cases, we use cadaver cartilage grafts.”
“I think that pretty much alleviates most people’s concerns.”
Shridharani said the procedures typically start at $10,000, with costs increase depending on the scope of treatment.
“If you want a full breast augmentation, hip dip and some buttock treatment and you have to use hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cc’s of AlloClae, well, that’s going to cost tens of thousands of dollars,” he said.
The non-invasive filler is gaining popularity for plumping the butt, breasts, hips and other trouble spots.PixlMakr – stock.adobe.com
From a regulatory standpoint, AlloClae occupies a distinct category. While it is FDA-compliant, it is classified as a human cell and tissue product, allowing it to be sold without full agency approval — unlike traditional injectables such as Botox.
Early evidence suggests the injections are safe and effective. Because AlloClae is made from processed human fat, doctors say it’s highly biocompatible.
“The enhancement is so absolutely natural, it looks like my body with the impact of time erased,” a 61-year-old woman who used AlloClae in a recent BBL, told The Cut. “Plus, it’s not just that the area that looks fuller, but my skin looks tauter and is no longer crepey.”
Women aren’t the only ones jumping on board. Men are turning to the next-generation filler too, sculpting their pectorals without implants or surgery, among other uses.
“[It] creates an insta-chest where you do not need general anesthesia, you do not need to have a long post-op, you can do it and virtually go back to the office, just like you would do with filler in the face,” Dr. Douglas S. Steinbrech, a plastic surgeon specializing in male aesthetics, said in a TikTok.
AlloClae is also being touted as a way to restore volume lost from popular weight loss drugs.
“All of that weight loss and sagging areas from your GLP-1 like Mounjaro, tirzepatide, Zepbound, any of those types of treatments. Guess what? We can use some AlloClae to give you that hip dip, buttocks and breast contour back,” Shridharani said in a TikTok. “This is going to be pretty impressive and groundbreaking.”
Still, it’s not risk-free. Possible side effects include temporary swelling, bruising, bleeding and pain at the injection site, along with rare issues like small lumps, asymmetry, oil cysts, infections and allergic reactions.
“A lot of people are coming out of the woodwork wanting to not get left behind with using AlloClae, but they aren’t necessarily clinicians that know how to perform a surgical fat graft correctly on the body or on the breast,” Shridharani said.
“This is surgery at the end of the day,” he continued. “The most important thing to me is making sure that the provider has experience with surgical fat grafting.”
