{"id":331715,"date":"2026-04-28T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/fbi-raids-minneapolis-childcare-facilities-part-of-sweeping-fraud-investigation.html"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:59:04","slug":"fbi-raids-minneapolis-childcare-facilities-part-of-sweeping-fraud-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/fbi-raids-minneapolis-childcare-facilities-part-of-sweeping-fraud-investigation.html","title":{"rendered":"FBI raids Minneapolis childcare facilities, part of sweeping fraud investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofnews.b-cdn.net\/timesofnewscdn\/usa\/30f736d3_image.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News Flash top headlines for April 28\" width=\"896\" height=\"500\" data-v-324c3b57=\"\" \/> <span class=\"overlay\" data-v-324c3b57=\"\">Video<\/span><\/a> <!--&gt; \n\n<h4 class=\"title\" data-v-324c3b57=\"\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Fox News Flash top headlines for April 28<\/a><\/h4>\n\n \n\n<p data-v-324c3b57=\"\">Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on FoxNews.com.<\/p>\n\n \n\n<p class=\"speakable\">Federal authorities raided more than 20 locations, including childcare facilities, in Minneapolis on Tuesday as part of a sweeping fraud investigation into largely Somali-owned businesses, the Department of Justice confirmed to Fox News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"speakable\">\"Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,\" a Department of Justice spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities executed 22 federal search warrants in Minnesota on Tuesday morning as part of the operation, which is not immigration-related.<\/p>\n\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofnews.b-cdn.net\/timesofnewscdn\/usa\/b0b973a9_fbi-agent.jpg\" alt=\"FBI agent jacket\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/> \n\n<p><span>The FBI raided childcare facilities in Minneapolis on Tuesday as part of a sweeping fraud investigation, Fox News has learned.<\/span> <span>(iStock)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>This is a developing story; check back for updates.<\/i><\/p>\n\n --> <!--&gt; \n\n<p>Bill Melugin serves\u00a0as congressional correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC)\u00a0based in Washington, D.C. He joined the network in May 2021.<\/p>\n\n--><\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fbi-raids-minneapolis-childcare-facilities-part-sweeping-fraud-investigation<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Article source: https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fbi-raids-minneapolis-childcare-facilities-part-sweeping-fraud-investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-331715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}