All the right circumstances are...

Editor's note: ...in place for theft and fraud to continue in America. Federal investigators broke up a $250 million scheme that sold fake nursing diplomas to about 15,000 people nationwide, targeting Haitian immigrant communities in South Florida. Brokers worked with accredited nursing school owners to issue bogus diplomas, often for $16,000 each. Forty three people have been convicted, serving four to six years and forfeiting millions in proceeds. Since buying a fake degree isn't a federal crime, authorities haven't pursued the fraudulent "nurses" themselves, though about two dozen Florida nursing schools tied to the scheme have been shut down. If you check into a nursing home check the nurse's credentials. Might end up with the wrong saline solution in your intravenous feed, or worse, you might get injected with a Pfizer injection with undisclosed mRNA DNA in the syringe.
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Minnesota's Anti-ICE Relief Fund Shut Down Due To Rampant Fraud

By Zero Hedge | September 19, 2026

Officials in Hennepin County, Minnesota, shut down a $2 million relief fund for businesses claiming to be affected by federal immigration enforcement after officials discovered widespread fraud among applicants, forcing them to end the program. The county board created the fund to help businesses "harmed" by Operation Metro Surge, the federal immigration enforcement operation that began in December 2025. Federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis in January, turning it into one of the most scrutinized immigration enforcement actions in the country.

Of about 300 applications submitted, only 82 were deemed legitimate. Officials distributed only $500,000 before shutting the program down.

County officials found the problem ran deeper than a few opportunists padding their paperwork. Site visits revealed businesses listed on applications that did not exist. Investigators found the same AI-generated language pasted into dozens of unrelated applications with little variation.

Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Lunde said the fraud reflected a broader breakdown. "The fact that people, after all this fraud, felt that they could apply and get away with it, I think it's a problem because clearly there's no fear out there," Lunde said. "Until we get it where people fear things, then they're gonna keep doing it."

Lunde described watching the numbers deteriorate in real time. "Then at a certain point we're like, 'OK, we're getting declining results on that.' And so we said it's time to stop the program. So we just stopped processing at that point," he said. He described the bulk of the applications as fraudulent outright, a flood of fabricated claims rather than a handful of bad actors slipping through the cracks.

Neither Hennepin County nor Walz's office responded to Fox News' requests for comment.

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