State Continues To Send Funds To Non-Profit Amid Reports
What’s happening in Minnesota right now isn’t just bureaucratic negligence — it’s a damning indictment of a welfare system that continues to shovel taxpayer money into questionable hands, even when red flags are flying high and in plain sight.
The latest example? Ka Joog, a Somali youth charity once hailed by officials as a community partner, continued to receive six-figure taxpayer-funded payments after its chairman, Ali Elmi, was arrested in a $9 million fraud case. That’s not speculation. That’s documented fact.
KTSP-TV uncovered that Minnesota’s Department of Human Services (DHS) kept sending $600,000 checks to Ka Joog without interruption, long after Elmi was charged in the fall of 2023 for his alleged role in siphoning millions from the state’s Personal Care Assistance program. And yet, no internal investigation into Ka Joog itself was launched. No audit. No pause. No accountability. Just business as usual.
Minnesota NGO continued to get hundreds of thousands in state grants after its board chair was charged in a massive fraud case
The founders of the nonprofit are from Somalia, they got caught stealing $9 million taxpayer dollars, and Democrats KEPT SENDING MONEY
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This is the same charity, mind you, that has failed to file the basic financial disclosures required by the state. Ka Joog isn’t even properly registered as a charitable organization with Minnesota’s attorney general — and still, over $2.7 million in public funds flowed into its coffers. It’s almost as if paperwork, transparency, and accountability don’t apply if your group checks the right political boxes.
Republican State Rep. Isaac Schultz didn’t mince words, calling the DHS “asleep at the wheel” and pointing to a systemic failure of internal communication. But this is bigger than a sleepy agency. This is an entire apparatus that appears either unwilling or incapable of basic due diligence.
Worse still, KTSP’s broader investigation found that Ka Joog is just the tip of the iceberg. As much as $20 million in state welfare funding has gone to groups that have not even fulfilled the basic legal requirement of registering as charities.
These organizations are not properly vetted. They’re not held to basic standards. And yet, they keep getting taxpayer money — all under the watch of a state government that claims to champion oversight and equity.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t about denying legitimate services to vulnerable communities. It’s about ensuring those services are delivered by legitimate organizations — ones that actually follow the law, file their paperwork, and spend public money responsibly. When millions are funneled into shady or unverified operations, the people who lose are the very communities the programs are supposed to serve.