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Dec 25, 2025

Comer Says He’ll Subpoena Tim Walz As Minnesota Fraud Probe Deepens YYY

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said he is prepared to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as part of the panel’s investigation into a large-scale fraud scheme that allegedly involved hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid being funneled through nonprofits to Somali immigrants and other recipients.

Comer’s comments come amid intensifying scrutiny of Minnesota’s oversight of its aid programs and growing calls from Republican lawmakers for additional federal review, Just the News reported.

“If anyone that has received correspondence from us thus far requesting information, if they don’t turn over that information, then they will get a subpoena. And we’re serious about this. We’re not going to back down,” Comer told the outlet this week.

The alleged fraud scheme — involving nonprofits such as “Feeding Our Future” and carried out largely by individuals of Somali descent, according to prosecutors — is believed to have siphoned more than $1 billion in taxpayer funds by submitting claims for child nutrition, housing assistance and autism therapy services that were never provided during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Comer told Just the News that Walz and other Minnesota Democratic officials, including Attorney General Keith Ellison, have “hid” as federal and state investigations continue, arguing that their cooperation will be necessary to determine how the alleged misconduct went undetected for so long.

“You know, Walz gets due process, but the way he’s handling this, and the way Ellison, the attorney general, has kind of hid right now, makes me pretty confident that there’s a massive amount of waste, fraud and abuse that’s about to be detected here, and I’m going to predict that Walz’s political career is closer to an end than somewhere in the middle,” Comer said.

Amid allegations that some of the proceeds may have reached the Somali terrorist organization Al-Shabaab, the scandal has prompted federal investigations, renewed political scrutiny of Governor Walz’s administration over oversight failures, and heightened tensions within Minnesota’s sizable Somali community.

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