The Difference Between Somali and Nigerian Fraud
Health care embezzlers tend to be a remarkably diverse set of immigrants.
Both Nigerian and Somali immigrants are notorious for embezzling funds from trusting Americans. But they go about it in rather different ways.
Minnesota Somalis prefer to minimize the number of non-Somalis allowed in on the action. This is seen, for instance, in the defendants in the 2022 case United States v. Aimee Marie Bock, et al. in which one white lady inspector and 43 Somalis were charged with stealing $240 million in taxpayer dollars by fraudulently concocting claims to have served 125,000,000 fictitious covid emergency meals to Somali-American children:
How many pairs of cousins are on this list? Heck, all 43 Somali crooks might be from just one clan or sub-clan. Who in America can tell?
In contrast, at least the unjustly usurped Nigerian princes forced to work in health care supply businesses in the United States tend …
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