FBI agents showed up at a Minneapolis childcare center with a battering ram.
The center had been billing taxpayers for children who weren't there – and Tim Walz's Minnesota had known about it for years.
A former Vikings captain who watched this fraud network grow from the inside went on Fox News – and what he said is something Walz never wanted America to hear.
FBI Raids More Than 20 Minneapolis Daycare Centers in Minnesota Fraud Crackdown
Federal agents executed 22 search warrants across the Minneapolis area – childcare centers, businesses, and homes – with at least one team using a battering ram to force entry.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed agents executed criminal search warrants "relating to rampant fraud of U.S. taxpayers' dollars."
FBI agents were photographed loading computer monitors and evidence out of the Mini Childcare Center in south Minneapolis – one of the sites that went viral in December when a YouTuber showed it empty of children while collecting government payments.
Jack Brewer, a former Minnesota Vikings team captain who played at the University of Minnesota and has watched this fraud unfold for years, didn't hesitate.
"Americans should celebrate today," Brewer told Fox News. "Finally, we have an FBI that is actually sticking up for the poor in this country and stopping this corruption that's happening in Minneapolis and the surrounding areas, where they're robbing, literally robbing, the orphan, the widow, and those in poverty."
"Thank God Kash Patel and the federal government are stepping in, because they are the only ones who will even attempt to police this place. Minnesota will not police itself."
He didn't stop there.
"Many liberal cities, but especially Minneapolis, have become completely lawless," Brewer said. "They will not, by any means, police themselves – at the state level, the local level, or the city level. All they do is let people get away with crime after crime after crime, no matter if it's violent crime or white-collar crime."
How the Feeding Our Future Fraud Grew to 250 Million Dollars Under Tim Walz
Brewer has been sounding the alarm since before most Americans knew Minnesota had a fraud crisis.
He watched it from the inside.
During his playing career with the Vikings, Brewer said he witnessed alleged fraudsters purchasing Bentleys and Maseratis at Twin Cities dealerships where he had endorsement deals.
Those luxury car purchases came out of Feeding Our Future – a nonprofit that claimed to feed tens of thousands of children during COVID while submitting fake meal counts and pocketing federal child nutrition money.
The DOJ has charged 79 people in the Feeding Our Future scheme alone, with 65 convicted.
Stolen funds were wired to banks in Somalia, Kenya, and China.
The fraud didn't stop at food programs.
State auditors placed 14 Medicaid programs under review for fraud.
FOX 9 reported that DHS emails from 2018 warned Walz's state officials they had a massive fraud problem – four years before the first federal charges landed.
Walz added $5 million for investigators in 2019 and called it handled.
It wasn't.
Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock sued the state for racial discrimination when regulators tried to slow her down – and Minnesota backed off.
Kash Patel Shuts Down Walz After the Governor Claims Credit for the Raids
Brewer spent years watching this fraud network operate.
His diagnosis is direct.
"They prey on vulnerable people," Brewer said of the convicted fraudsters. "I believe they get into these networks and pass it on amongst each other – how to steal from the U.S. government and how to exploit the very people those programs were created to help. Those people are gross. They are robbing the people who need help the most and turning suffering into their own personal business model."
Kash Patel had already declared Minnesota fraud a top FBI priority and surged agents into the state.
Walz – who dropped his reelection bid in January after the fraud scandal ended his political career – tried to claim credit for Tuesday's raids on X, saying his state agencies had flagged the irregular behavior.
Patel shut that down immediately.
"This FBI and DOJ with our DHS partners drafted and executed every search warrant today," Patel posted. "But go ahead and take credit for our work while we smoke out the fraud plaguing Minnesota under your governorship."
The House Oversight Committee, investigating an estimated $9 billion in total Minnesota fraud, had its own response: "Sit this one out, Tim."
Brewer explained what Walz created.
"Minnesota is literally vulnerable to these schemes from all of these folks who have figured out how to manipulate the system," he said. "They've created industries of corruption."
An FBI that actually enforces the law just showed up to prove him right.
Sources:
- Alex Raskin, "Ex-Vikings star breaks silence on FBI raids targeting alleged Somali fraudsters in Minnesota," Daily Mail, April 29, 2026.
- Bill Melugin and Stephen Sorace, "Kash Patel fires back at Walz for claiming raid credit," Fox News, April 28, 2026.
- Bill Melugin and Stephen Sorace, "Former Vikings captain reacts to FBI raids on alleged Somali fraudsters in Minnesota," Fox News, April 29, 2026.
- "Timeline of alleged Minnesota daycare fraud," CBS Minnesota, April 29, 2026.
- "Through the years: A decade of investigating fraud in Minnesota," FOX 9, December 29, 2025.
- "Two More Defendants Plead Guilty in Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme," U.S. Department of Justice, April 2026.
