Former Vikings captain reacts to FBI raids on alleged Somali fraudsters in Minnesota

Former Minnesota Vikings skipper and Minnesota Golden Gophers shot prima Jack Brewer has witnessed an arc of transgression and punishment involving his state's Somali community.

After antecedently telling Fox News Digital that helium saw alleged Somali fraudsters bargain luxury sports cars during his playing vocation with the Vikings, Brewer witnessed the FBI behaviour raids connected the alleged Somali fraudsters astatine the halfway of a years-long Minnesota payment fraud scheme.

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Jack Brewer stands with instrumentality enforcement officers successful Minneapolis. (Fox News, Getty Images)

"Americans should observe today. Finally, we person an FBI that is really sticking up for the mediocre successful this state and stopping this corruption that’s happening successful Minneapolis and the surrounding areas, wherever they’re robbing, virtually robbing, the orphan, the widow, and those successful poverty," Brewer told Fox News Digital aboriginal connected Tuesday.

"Thank God Kash Patel and the national authorities are stepping in, due to the fact that they are the lone ones who volition adjacent effort to constabulary this place. Minnesota volition not constabulary itself."

Federal authorities raided much than 20 locations, including childcare facilities, successful Minneapolis connected Tuesday arsenic portion of a sweeping fraud probe into mostly Somali-owned businesses, sources confirmed to Fox News.

Authorities executed 22 national hunt warrants successful Minnesota connected Tuesday greeting arsenic portion of the operation, which is not immigration-related.

The raids halfway connected national fraud investigations into mostly Somali-owned businesses, including childcare facilities that registered their daycare with the authorities but were allegedly billing for attraction that was not provided.

"They prey connected susceptible people," Brewer said of the alleged fraudsters.

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Jack Brewer, erstwhile Minnesota Vikings safety, speaks during a sheet astatine the Conservative Political Action Conference successful Orlando, Fla., connected Feb. 27, 2021. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks astatine a property league astatine City Hall aft a wide shooting astatine Annunciation Catholic School successful Minneapolis, Minn., connected Aug. 28, 2025. (Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg; Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

"I judge they get into these networks and walk it connected amongst each different — however to bargain from the U.S. authorities and however to exploit the precise radical those programs were created to help. Those radical are gross. They are robbing the radical who request assistance the astir and turning suffering into their ain idiosyncratic concern model."

Brewer was a standout peculiar teams subordinate and squad skipper for the Minnesota Vikings. Signed arsenic a escaped agent, helium played 15 games successful 2002, starring the squad successful peculiar teams tackles and securing his archetypal vocation interception against Green Bay. He was named squad skipper successful 2003.

Prior to that, helium was a standout information and squad skipper astatine the University of Minnesota aft transferring from SMU, earning First Team All-Big Ten honors and starring antiaircraft backs successful tackles successful 2001.

"Minnesota is 1 of the astir fatherless places successful America, peculiarly due to the fact that 28% of their households are single-family households, the immense bulk being azygous moms. Minnesota is virtually susceptible to these schemes from each of these folks who person figured retired however to manipulate the system, and they’ve created industries of corruption," Brewer added.

"Many wide cities, but particularly Minneapolis, person go wholly lawless. They volition not, by immoderate means, constabulary themselves — astatine the authorities level, the section level, oregon the metropolis level. All they bash is fto radical get distant with transgression aft transgression aft crime, nary substance if it’s convulsive transgression oregon white-collar crime... What tin you bash to really spell to jailhouse successful Minnesota? If you look astatine it, they person immoderate of the shortest situation sentences, they fto radical close retired of jail, and it becomes a free-for-all. It is simply a implicit free-for-all."

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Minnesota has been nether the spotlight for years for Medicaid fraud, including a monolithic $300 cardinal pandemic fraud lawsuit involving the nonprofit Feeding Our Future. It drew renewed nationalist attraction successful 2025 arsenic convictions piled up and the authorities became a flashpoint successful the Trump administration’s broader "war connected fraud."

In 2022, during erstwhile President Joe Biden’s administration, 47 radical were charged. As of December, 57 radical person been convicted, either due to the fact that they pleaded blameworthy oregon mislaid astatine trial. Most of the defendants are of Somali descent.

Fox News' Bill Melugin and Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.

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