Trump administration says it’s halting all federal child care payments to Minnesota after viral fraud claims

Submission statement: The Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday that it is freezing all federal child care payments to the state of Minnesota in the wake of a viral video that alleged widespread fraud at child care facilities across the state. The Justice Department has been investigating fraud involving some members of Minnesota’s Somali community for years. Federal prosecutors in 2022 — under the Biden administration — announced initial indictments in what they said was a $250 million scheme to defraud a federally funded child nutrition program.
As of November, prosecutors had charged 77 people, and they described Aimee Bock, who is white, as the mastermind of the operation. A jury convicted Bock in March