WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump’s Small Business Administration has revealed alarming signs that the Biden administration may have ignored or even enabled widespread fraud tied to the massive Somali-run pandemic-aid scheme in Minnesota — a scandal Attorney General Merrick Garland himself once called “the country’s largest pandemic relief fraud scheme.”
The development emerged after former Sen. Kelly Loeffler announced that Trump’s SBA immediately began auditing COVID-era loans the moment the President returned to office.
“From day one, we’ve gone back to COVID-era loans that were forgiven under the Biden administration that had hold codes for potential fraud,” Loeffler said — a stunning admission that many suspicious loans were simply rubber-stamped under Biden with no serious oversight.
The Minnesota fraud operation, which exploded under Gov. Tim Walz’s watch, saw hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars siphoned away. Now, Trump’s SBA is uncovering evidence that Biden-era bureaucrats failed to review or vet loans connected to the scandal, despite being fully aware of the scale of the fraud.
Loeffler suggested the key question is simple:
If Biden’s own Attorney General admitted the fraud was historic, why didn’t Biden’s SBA stop it?
Trump’s administration is now aggressively auditing every questionable loan — and early findings suggest the Biden team allowed fraudulent applications to slip through the system, even as prosecutions were underway in Minnesota.
