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Million-dollar SNAP food stamp fraud scheme in Walz’s backyard sparks outrage: ‘Cruel joke’

Minnesota Congressman Emmer sounds off on Gov Walz over fraud probe
Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer demands accountability from Governor Tim Walz regarding the state’s massive fraud probe. Emmer alleges Walz is either incompetent or complicit in the theft of $9 billion in taxpayer funds, highlighting the culture of corruption. Federal prosecutors have estimated the fraud against 14 Medicaid programs could total $9 billion.
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Authorities in Minnesota have filed criminal charges against a man accused of a food stamp fraud scheme that defrauded taxpayers out of over $1 million.
Abdidwahid Mohamed, the owner of Minnesota Food Grocery LLC, allegedly used EBT cards registered to others to purchase items at Sam’s Club and Costco in 2021 before turning around and reselling them in his store, Fox 9 Minneapolis reported.
Authorities in Hennepin County say they observed Mohamed making purchases and followed him back to his store with the goods. Surveillance footage and GPS data backed this up, while investigators noted that many of the EBT cardholders were either out of the country or say they never shopped at the stores he used.
SNAP, the federal program allegedly abused by Mohamed, provides food assistance to low-income households through EBT cards that function like debit cards.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz testifies during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2026. The hearing examined alleged misuse of federal funds for Minnesota social services and Medicaid programs. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
«Mohamed received $1,141,082 in EBT payments,» according to the complaint, which added that the plan «involved a high degree of sophistication or planning or occurred over a lengthy period of time.»
Mohamed faces up to 20 years in prison or a $100,000 fine if found guilty.
«Minneapolis didn’t become America’s fraud capital by accident,» Dalia al-Aqidi, a Republican running for Congress in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District against Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., told Fox News Digital. «It was earned. This week, it’s a grocer charged with running up $1.1 million in charges on other people’s EBT cards. Next week, it will be something else, but the bill always lands on the Minnesotans who actually pay taxes.»
Aqidi says that families tell her «affordability» is what «keeps them up night» and the «cruel joke is that the money is here to really make a difference for people.»
MINNESOTA MILLIONAIRE WHO QUALIFIED FOR FOOD STAMPS WARNS OF ‘FRAUD BY DESIGN’ LOOPHOLE AHEAD OF HEARING
«It is just lining the wrong pockets and paying for luxury cars and houses on the other side of the world. The fraudsters are only half the story. The other half are the people administering these programs, from the front lines all the way up to Ilhan Omar, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Governor Tim Walz. There has been talk about ending fraud in Minnesota for years. I am going to Washington to actually do it.»
Two Republican lawmakers in Minnesota who spoke to Fox News Digital echoed a similar sentiment, including state Sen. Mark Koran, a Republican, who said the situation is «yet another example of why Minnesota is target number one for fraudsters.»
«The sheer volume of welfare programs, combined with the inability of state agencies to detect obvious fraud is alarming. Once again, it was a private retailer, not the state, that uncovered this fraud scheme,» Koran added, referencing the suspect being initially flagged by Walmart’s Global Investigation Team.
«All individuals involved, including the people that sold their EBT cards to Abdi Mohamed, have to be fully prosecuted,» Koran said. People who come here to steal from hardworking Minnesota taxpayers deserve serious consequences.
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The image shows a sign at a supermarket entrance that reads «We Welcome EBT customers» with a SNAP logo. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
Minnesota state Sen. Michael Holmstrom, a Republican, reacted to the news by telling Fox News Digital, «This may be the laziest one yet.»
«We had this guy, Abdi Mohamed, and he named his scam company ‘Minnesota Food Grocery LLC.’ They aren’t even trying, because they have been conditioned to believe there are no consequences.»
Fox News Digital reached out to Walz’s office for comment.
The charges come amid the massive fraud scandal unfolding in Minnesota within social services programs, particularly within the Somali community, in recent months, along with a renewed crackdown from the Trump administration on food stamp fraud.
«Since its inception, SNAP has helped our most vulnerable citizens afford the essential and nutritious food they need,» Rollins and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in a Fox News op-ed in March. «At least, that is what the program is supposed to do.
«Over time, however, SNAP has been taken advantage of, allowing many to game the system and leaving millions of vulnerable Americans without healthy, nutrient-dense food options.»
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El dengue deja más fallecidos y acelera su expansión en Panamá

Mientras miles de panameños enfrentan síntomas similares a los de un resfriado común en plena temporada lluviosa, las cifras oficiales muestran que el dengue continúa avanzando en el país y lo hace con señales que preocupan a las autoridades sanitarias: más casos, más hospitalizaciones, más pacientes graves y más muertes.
El más reciente informe epidemiológico del Ministerio de Salud revela que hasta la semana epidemiológica 19, correspondiente del 10 al 16 de mayo, Panamá acumulaba 2,581 casos de dengue, 113 más que los reportados una semana antes, cuando el país registraba 2,468 contagios. Pero el aumento no se limita únicamente al número de enfermos.
Los casos con signos de alarma pasaron de 291 a 311 en apenas una semana, mientras que los casos de dengue grave aumentaron de 15 a 17. Las hospitalizaciones también crecieron de 307 a 328 pacientes y las defunciones subieron de siete a ocho. La tasa nacional de incidencia pasó de 52.3 a 54.7 casos por cada 100 mil habitantes, reflejando una expansión sostenida de la enfermedad en distintas regiones del país.
La Región Metropolitana continúa siendo la más afectada con 680 casos acumulados, seguida por Colón con 462 y Bocas del Toro con 265. Entre los corregimientos con mayor cantidad de contagios figuran Tocumen, Puerto Pilón, Veracruz, 24 de Diciembre, Belisario Frías y Las Garzas. Los adolescentes de entre 10 y 14 años siguen siendo el grupo más impactado, con una tasa de incidencia de 78 casos por cada 100 mil habitantes.

Uno de los principales desafíos para las autoridades es que los primeros síntomas del dengue suelen confundirse con los de un resfriado, una gripe o incluso otras infecciones virales.
Sin embargo, existen diferencias importantes. Mientras los resfriados suelen provocar congestión nasal, estornudos y dolor de garganta, el dengue se caracteriza por una fiebre alta repentina, dolor intenso de cabeza, dolor detrás de los ojos, dolores musculares y articulares severos, cansancio extremo y malestar general.
Precisamente por esos dolores musculares y articulares intensos, la enfermedad es conocida popularmente como la “fiebre quebrantahuesos”. Algunos pacientes también pueden presentar náuseas, vómitos y erupciones en la piel varios días después del inicio de los síntomas.
Los especialistas advierten que el mayor riesgo aparece cuando la fiebre comienza a desaparecer. Contrario a lo que muchas personas creen, la reducción de la temperatura no siempre significa mejoría. Es en ese momento cuando algunos pacientes desarrollan signos de alarma que pueden anticipar un cuadro grave.

Entre las señales que requieren atención médica inmediata figuran el dolor abdominal intenso y persistente, vómitos continuos, sangrado de encías o nariz, presencia de sangre en heces o vómitos, dificultad para respirar, somnolencia excesiva, irritabilidad o una sensación marcada de debilidad.
Cuando estos síntomas aparecen, el paciente puede requerir hospitalización para recibir líquidos intravenosos, monitoreo constante y tratamiento especializado.
Los datos oficiales muestran precisamente que cada vez más pacientes están llegando a esa fase crítica. En una sola semana se sumaron 20 hospitalizaciones adicionales y dos nuevos casos de dengue grave, indicadores que suelen ser observados con especial atención por los epidemiólogos porque reflejan la presión que la enfermedad ejerce sobre el sistema de salud.
El comportamiento observado en Panamá coincide con una tendencia regional. Diversos países de América Latina han reportado durante los primeros meses de 2026 un aumento de casos favorecido por las lluvias, las altas temperaturas y la proliferación del mosquito Aedes aegypti, transmisor del virus.

Naciones como Brasil, Colombia, Perú, Honduras y Costa Rica han mantenido sistemas de vigilancia reforzados debido a la persistencia de brotes y a la circulación simultánea de distintos serotipos del dengue.
Las autoridades sanitarias panameñas insisten en que la principal herramienta para contener la enfermedad sigue siendo la eliminación de criaderos. El mosquito deposita sus huevos en recipientes con agua acumulada, por lo que tanques destapados, llantas, botellas, latas, cubetas y otros objetos abandonados pueden convertirse en focos de reproducción.
Mientras el país entra en los meses de mayor intensidad de la temporada lluviosa, el avance de las estadísticas deja un mensaje claro: el dengue continúa ganando terreno. Y aunque la mayoría de los pacientes se recupera sin complicaciones, el aumento simultáneo de contagios, hospitalizaciones, casos graves y fallecimientos demuestra que la enfermedad sigue representando una amenaza significativa para la salud pública panameña.
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Foreign enemies have a shockingly simple way to track US troops overseas, lawmakers warn

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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is demanding answers from the Pentagon after U.S. Central Command disclosed it had received multiple threat reports indicating foreign adversaries were exploiting commercially available location data to target or surveil American military personnel overseas.
In a letter to War Department Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davies, lawmakers led by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., warned that the Pentagon «has not taken basic steps to protect U.S. military personnel from the serious counterintelligence and force protection threat posed by the collection and sale of personal information, including cell phone location data, by data brokers.»
The lawmakers cited information provided by U.S. Central Command, which told Congress it «has received multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater.»
The warning centers on the vast commercial data broker industry, which collects and sells location information generated by smartphones, apps and advertising networks. Lawmakers say adversaries may be able to purchase or otherwise obtain that data and use it to identify military installations, monitor troop movements or track individual service members.
HACKERS CLAIM MASSIVE BREACH OF COMPANY THAT TRACKS AND SELLS AMERICANS’ LOCATION DATA
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is demanding answers from the Pentagon about adversaries exploiting commercially available location data to target or surveil American military personnel overseas. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
After revealing that CENTCOM had received multiple threat reports involving adversaries exploiting commercial location data, the lawmakers argued the Pentagon has failed to adequately address a vulnerability that has been known for years.
«That foreign adversaries are still able to buy location data collected from the phones of U.S. personnel serving in military hotspots is a direct result of DOD leadership’s failure to prioritize this threat and implement common sense cyber defenses recommended by federal cybersecurity experts,» the lawmakers wrote.
According to the letter, CENTCOM told lawmakers it only rolled out a capability to administratively disable location sharing on government-issued smartphones in May. Lawmakers also said advertising identifiers — unique tracking numbers used by advertisers and data brokers to monitor devices across apps and services — remain active on government-issued devices despite longstanding recommendations from cybersecurity agencies to disable them.
ALLSTATE SUED FOR ALLEGEDLY TRACKING AND SELLING 45M AMERICANS’ LOCATION DATA
The lawmakers urged the Pentagon to disable advertising identifiers on all government-issued smartphones and issue guidance requiring personnel to do the same on personal devices used overseas or on military installations. They also called for the Departement of War to replace web browsers that facilitate advertising-related data collection with privacy-focused alternatives that include anti-tracking protections.
The Pentagon has been grappling with the security implications of commercially available location data for years. In 2018, the fitness-tracking app Strava inadvertently revealed the locations and movement patterns of military personnel after publishing a global heat map of user activity. Similar concerns later emerged involving other fitness and location-based applications that exposed military installations and, in some cases, could be used to identify individual service members.
The War Department subsequently issued guidance restricting the use of applications and devices that share geolocation data in operational areas. But lawmakers argue the department has not fully implemented more basic protections designed to limit the collection and sale of location information in the first place.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Pentagon for comment.
Cybersecurity experts say the concern extends far beyond fitness-tracking applications.

The lawmakers cited information provided by U.S. Central Command, which told Congress it «has received multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater.» (Jonathan Klein/AFP via Getty Images)
The commercial data ecosystem collects vast amounts of location information generated through smartphones, mobile applications, advertising technology systems and other digital services.
«The United States’ foreign adversaries have plentiful opportunities to exploit commercial location data on Americans, because so much location data is collected, shared, sold, inferred, and much more across the commercial market on millions of Americans every day,» Justin Sherman, CEO of research and advisory firm Global Cyber Strategies, told Fox News Digital.
Sherman said foreign adversaries can potentially obtain access to location data through data brokers, digital advertising networks and other commercial systems that collect and sell information about users’ movements.
«If you’re one of the United States’ foreign adversaries, you have advanced cyber capabilities, but you see all this U.S. data out there on the commercial market, you’d think: ‘why hack when I can buy?’»
«Foreign adversaries can take advantage of gaps in U.S. privacy laws, failures in other countries to lock down data, and the pervasiveness of digital systems to get location data from data brokers, real-time bidding networks for digital ads, and many other commercial sources,» Sherman said.

The commercial data ecosystem collects vast amounts of location information generated through smartphones, mobile applications, advertising technology systems and other digital services. (Source: U.S. Army )
Once obtained, Sherman said the data can potentially be used to identify individuals, track their movements over time and build what intelligence professionals refer to as «patterns of life» — detailed pictures of a person’s routines, habits and activities.
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«The sale of location data in particular on Americans’ devices puts military personnel at risk, can expose their families and other people in their lives, and allow anyone with the data to see the sites they visit, map patterns of life, run intelligence operations against them, and more,» Sherman said. «It’s a serious national security threat.»
The lawmakers’ letter raises fresh questions about how much commercially available data foreign adversaries can access and whether existing Pentagon safeguards are sufficient to protect American troops operating in sensitive environments around the world.
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