Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz revealed a prime example of the rampant fraud that has gone on in Minnesota, where Somali swindlers have bilked taxpayers out of billions of dollars.
In a Friday video posted on social media, Dr. Oz visited the infamous Griggs-Midway Building in St. Paul, a former linen factory where hundreds of Medicaid businesses operated out of.
“You’d never believe the kinds of fraud schemes happening in Minnesota. @HHS_Jim and I were taken aback to say the least. Here’s just a snippet of what we saw on the ground and are working to stop,” the CMS chief said in a post to X, along with the short video pulling back the curtain on the “industrial scale fraud” that’s gone on in the Twin Cities that Democrats are desperate to cover up.
You’d never believe the kinds of fraud schemes happening in Minnesota. @HHS_Jim and I were taken aback to say the least.
Here’s just a snippet of what we saw on the ground and are working to stop. pic.twitter.com/UNgpjrMoIk
— DrOzCMS (@DrOzCMS) January 23, 2026
“Behind me is the Griggs-Midway Building; it looks like a factory because it was a factory, a linen factory, they made cloth back there,” he began. “They converted it to an office building.”
“You’ll notice all those little signs there, and there’s tons of little businesses inside,” Oz said as the camera panned the front of the building. “Roughly 400 Medicaid businesses were started in the building behind me over the last several years. They generated about $380 million of billing that you, the taxpayer, were putting up.”
“The means roughly each business had a million dollars in billing. It’s an industrial area, there’s no reason that you have a mother bring her child there,” he continued. “You can’t imagine getting extra business support. An autistic child probably wouldn’t want to come here to hear the noise, it’s just not a hospitable place.”
“The question is, how is it possible 400 businesses, billing almost $400 million, were able to thrive here?” Oz asked. “What did the owner of the business, this building, think what was happening inside? Why did no one in the state figure out this was a concern?”
“And perplexingly to me, in a place of this nature, an industrial complex that people would not come to for childcare, autism care or transportation support, how is it possible this could come up like an abscess in the heart of Minneapolis and nobody was watching?” Dr. Oz wondered.
“I think it’s because they weren’t looking,” he said. “They didn’t want to know that this problem was happening here, and it’s very concerning to me that only now, when there’s more federal supervision, are people beginning to ask the tough questions.”
Oz then drew attention to a “watch group” at the location that was surveilling the two officials, “taking pictures of us, they’re calling around trying to find out what’s going down.”
“We’re here to figure out why these folks are being defrauded. Why the people who live in Minnesota aren’t getting access to the care they deserve because it’s been stolen,” he said.
“But the fact that you’ve got people behind me in cars, concerned that we’re even talking about this story, should be something that worries you. It bothers me,” Dr. Oz added. “There’s been a censoring of truth, an inability just to own what’s happening in their state that’s concerning to me.”
President Donald J. Trump has called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s state “a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity,” and as FBI Director Kash Patel recently said, the fraud exposed so far is only the “tip of a very large iceberg.”
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