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Did you hear the one about the FBI investigation in the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners that caught one of them with his hand in the cookie jar of his own nonprofit?
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Three years ago, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott appointed longtime social worker and behavioral-health entrepreneur Mujahid Muhammad to the city's Board of School Commissioners. His primary organization, KEYS — Keep Encouraging Youth to Succeed — since 2009 purportedly was involved it counseling, youth recreation, senior services, workforce training, and “culinary therapy”—using grocery deliveries and cooking lessons with families needing mental-health support.
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Project Baltimore reported last week that it "has been digging into KEYS Empowers financials and found that in federal filings, KEYS reports paying out over $400,000 in salaries to zero employees."

Then there's this from the Baltimore Banner: "A nonprofit called KEYS Empowers Inc. that lists the same address as its headquarters and Muhammad as the executive director reported receiving more than $4.7 million in government funds for the 2023 and 2024 tax years, tax filings show. That money made up the entirety of KEYS Empowers revenue for those years."

The raid was part of the Trump administration's "coordinated crackdown on Medicaid fraud across the country," as Fox45 put it.

Fox45 News also reported that City Schools is “in the process of terminating its contractual agreement with KEYS Development," and that while the "FBI has not disclosed the focus of its investigation into Keys Empowers or Muhammad... the nonprofit’s most recent IRS filings do raise some red flags."

A separate Fox45 report found that an "analysis of Medicaid spending data from 2018 to 2024 published by the federal government revealed that KEYS received $32.3 million taxpayer dollars through the program."

That's a lot of cooking lessons for an organization with reportedly zero employees.

Federal agents executed a search warrant at Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) Washington, D.C., home early Monday morning as part of a criminal fraud investigation into her immigration paperwork, according to an exclusive report from Fox News Digital.

The search began at around 6 a.m. Two sources close to the investigation told the outlet that the probe focuses on immigration documents the Somali-born congresswoman's late father filled out on her behalf when she was a child. Homeland Security Investigations and the Department of Homeland Security are leading the operation, and the Justice Department is also involved. Multiple agents wearing HSI jackets were seen outside the residence.

Now we know that the Department of Justice has joined the investigation. DHS investigators raided Omar's Washington, D.C. residence this morning pursuant to a Department of Justice warrant, ABC News reported earlier today:

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Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C.-area residence was searched early Monday morning, a Department of Justice spokesperson said, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

Sources tell ABC News that the investigation relates to Omar’s immigration paperwork.

"Today in the Washington, D.C. area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice," a DOJ spokesperson said. "This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation."

Fox News also reported on the raid, but its source claims it relates to Omar's own entry paperwork:

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Multiple federal agents with HSI jackets were seen outside Omar's Washington, D.C. home in the early hours of Monday.

Two sources close to the investigation say the search stems from a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman's immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child.