Fact Check Team: Minnesota's Somali community, from refugees to political powerhouses
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Minnesota is home to the largest Somali community in the United States, a community that, over the last three decades, has been at the center of both praise and scrutiny. The latest controversy stems from a federal investigation into a network of nonprofits and individuals, including some Somali Minnesotans, accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic-era food aid by claiming to feed children who never existed.
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