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A massive welfare-fraud scandal, involving millions of dollars in stolen taxpayer money, is now unfolding in Maine, mirroring the billion-dollar criminal scam that is currently rocking Minnesota.

A former insider has stepped forward alleging that Gateway Community Services, a Somali-owned company in Maine, systematically falsified Medicaid billing records in a scheme eerily similar to the one federal prosecutors say looted Minnesota taxpayers and helped fuel criminal networks.

Those involved in the fraud scheme, according to ICE, funneled stolen taxpayer money to Al-Shabaab, a designated terrorist organization.

Christopher Bernardini, a former “billing guru” for Gateway, told NewsNation that the organization routinely billed Maine’s Medicaid program for services never provided. ...

“When I had clients calling me to tell me their staff hadn’t shown up, and I was told to bill those hours anyway.

“It just got worse and worse until I started really putting up a stink.”

He also said the company manipulated its electronic monitoring system to make it appear that field workers were visiting vulnerable clients when they weren’t.

Gateway received $28.8 million in Medicaid funds, according to documents obtained by The Maine Wire.

The company’s owner, Abdullahi Ali, reportedly has political ties in Somalia.

Ali was billing MaineCare after returning to Somalia to run to be the Warlord of Jubaland.

Bernardini says Ali bragged about using stolen taxpayer money to buy weapons and fund a militia in Somalia.

A Somali immigrant in Minnesota is under federal investigation after posting a TikTok video in which he openly threatened to shoot Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents amid heightened federal enforcement activity targeting criminal illegal aliens in the Twin Cities.

The man was identified by the New York Post as Hasan Mohamed, a student at the taxpayer-funded Minnesota State University.

“ICE, I actually heard you guys pulled up to Owatonna, the big O, and you pulled up when I was not there?” Mohamed said in the now-deleted clip.

“Y’all so p–s-ass s–t, boy.

“You’re gonna get popped next time I see you.