The slow pace at which Democrats in Minnesota have addressed the enormous $9 billion so-called Somali fraud scandal — playing politics with it rather than seeing it as the crime that it is — has allowed the situation to worsen.

Last week, one of the principal suspects, Abdirashid Ismail Said, who was accused of orchestrating an $11 million Medicaid fraud scheme, failed to show up for a scheduled court date and is now on the run.

Said was allowed by the Democratic-controlled court system to post bail, reflecting how unseriously this issue is being taken. It is no surprise that a man who allegedly stole $11 million did not hesitate to put up the $150,000 bond that the court required for him to go free pending trial — without having to surrender his passport.

Of course, Said then skipped town, running from the court hearing. With him being accused of stealing $11 million in federal Medicare funds earmarked for home healthcare agencies to help seniors and the poor, it should have been obvious he would not show up.

Democrats have not taken the evidence of fraud........

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