Two groups of Minnesota Republican lawmakers are calling on the state’s new U.S. attorney to launch a fraud investigation into a report that suggests taxpayer dollars are going to the Al-Shabaab in Somalia.

Federal prosecutors have charged a 78th defendant in a sweeping Minnesota fraud case alleging millions in taxpayer funds meant to feed children were stolen and some may have been funneled to al-Shabab,

Officials say some money siphoned away by Somali immigrants made its way to Kenya and Somalia to the Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group Al Shabab.

The radical Islamic terror group, which is a longstanding ally of al Qaeda and considered a threat to US interests, has likely been the beneficiary of money stolen in a spate of scams and sent to

Welfare fraud by Minnesota’s Somali population funneled taxpayer money to the Islamic terrorist organization Al-Shabaab, City Journal reported, citing law enforcement sources. “Untold millions” of state dollars flowed from Minnesota-based Somalis to the overseas group,