The Golden Age fraud crackdown just came down hard on Minnesota. Standing with the Vice President’s Fraud Task Force on Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that on Thursday, FBI Minneapolis and its partners executed 17 search warrants in a single day, wrapping them into a 26-count federal indictment.

Three of the warrants hit a child care center, two hit the homes of the center’s owners, and two more targeted an early intensive developmental and behavioral intervention (EIDBI) unit, Minnesota’s Medicaid-funded autism therapy program. Agents arrested four people: Feisal Elmi of Aspen Associates, charged with 11 counts of health care fraud and $8 million in intended loss; Jama Mohamod of American Home Health Care, six counts and $3.27 million; Faiza Ahmed of Home Sweet Home, eight counts and $10 million; and Habiba Mohamed of Smart Therapy, one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States in a scheme Patel put at nearly $20 million.

“The subjects intended to defraud thousands of victims of over $41 million, money that was supposed to go to those in need with our precious taxpayer dollars,” Patel said. “Instead, they thought they could get away with their crimes. They did not succeed because of this team and the president, the vice president’s anti-fraud task force.” The FBI put actual losses at $21.65 million. All four are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.

Patel said the results are part of a nationwide surge: in 21 months, the FBI has made more than 2,811 fraud arrests, secured 2,749 indictments and seized more than $2.3 billion, up 71 percent. In the Feeding Our Future case, 81 people have been charged and 70 convicted, with $533 million in restitution ordered, and the revived Most Wanted Fraudsters list has already brought back six fugitives tied to about $2 billion in losses.

The Trump team brought more firepower to Minnesota. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a $25 million fraud whistleblower incentive program paying tips of up to $30,000, and said Treasury has recovered $175 million in payments sent to dead people. Assistant Attorney General McDonald said 14 Minnesota fraud defendants have been sentenced to a combined 988 months in prison in about 115 days. The message to anyone stealing from American taxpayers: the party is over.