Homeland Security agents in Minneapolis investigating "rampant fraud"

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Homeland Security agents are successful Minneapolis connected Monday "conducting a monolithic probe connected childcare and different rampant fraud," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said.

Two DHS officials archer CBS News that agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations subdivision are expected to inspect implicit 30 sites successful the metropolis connected Monday alone.

HSI has historically investigated transgression enactment with an planetary oregon migration nexus, specified arsenic kid exploitation, cause smuggling, individuality theft and fraud. Under the 2nd Trump administration, galore HSI agents person been assigned to enactment alongside ICE's migration enforcement subdivision to find and apprehension immigrants suspected of being successful the U.S. illegally.

Asked whether this effort successful Minneapolis is focused connected the suspected fraud there oregon immigration enforcement, a elder DHS authoritative said, a "little spot of everything."

The HSI probe comes a time aft FBI Director Kash Patel called previous fraud arrests successful Minnesota "just the extremity of a precise ample iceberg." He said that the bureau has "surged unit and investigative resources" to the authorities to analyse fraud.

Earlier this month, national prosecutors said the full fraud successful Minnesota's Medicaid programs could beryllium arsenic overmuch arsenic $9 billion, a fig that Gov. Tim Walz and different authorities officials have disputed.

This summer, Walz agreed with a erstwhile estimation from Thompson that fraud crossed each programs, including the Feeding Our Future scheme, which is not a DHS-administered program, could full $1 billion.

Thompson told reporters that determination are national investigations into each 14 of the Medicaid programs deemed "high risk" for fraud, which are besides taxable to a third-party outgo audit.

More than 90 radical person been accused, and successful galore cases convicted, of bilking hundreds of millions of dollars from the state, putting Walz's medication successful the blistery spot and drafting attacks from President Trump.

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Camilo Montoya-Galvez and Joe Walsh contributed to this report.