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EXCLUSIVE: Former Minnesota employee reveals suspected fraud scheme of ‘fake injuries’ at Somali businesseshttps://alphanews.org/exclusive-former-minnesota-employee-reveals-suspected-fraud-scheme-of-fake-injuries-at-somali-businesses/It’s perhaps yet another kind of Somali fraud that we haven’t heard much about, and one that may involve fake businesses, fake injuries, and fake workers’ comp claims.
Janeen Balsimo retired in the fall after working as a Minnesota state employee for nearly 30 years. She joined Liz Collin on her podcast.
Balsimo spent her last years at the Department of Human Services (DHS) in the Tort Recovery Unit as a tort specialist.
She said that she wanted to blow the whistle on workers’ comp cases after what she noticed the last couple of years at her job—as hindsight and the exposure of fraud throughout Minnesota provided even more perspective.
Balsimo explained how she “recovered taxpayer dollars where another party should have been paying for the bills. For instance, like auto accidents or work comp. So we would get cases from attorneys representing the client.”
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However, she noticed a strange trend emerging in her normally routine work. “About a year ago, I can remember my caseloads of Somalian cases were going way up. They were going up so much I even confided in another coworker. She had noticed it as well,” Balsimo said.
She said “that’s when I noticed my Somali cases, they all worked at a daycare center, an adult care center, a hospice or an autism center. And I found that really strange and they ended in the LLC because I had to keep typing it over and over and it was just really strange to me.”
“Then I retired a few weeks before the Nick Shirley exposure … and one day I was watching a video and I noticed the names of the businesses he was investigating. And they looked really familiar. Like I almost remember the name of the businesses just by typing them all the time and just dealing with them. And I could not believe it … it all came together, Balsimo said.
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“Out of my just work comp cases, because we have other types of injury cases as well, I would say it seemed like 50% of my work comp cases … were Somali cases,” she recalled.
She said it amounted to hundreds of cases, if not more.
“It’s unbelievable the extent of the fraud. It’s actually really disturbing. And it makes sense. I mean, our taxes so high over the last seven years. You know, the taxpayers are the ones that are suffering for this fraud and just everything that’s going on in Minnesota right now,” Balsimo said.
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However, when Alpha News reached out to DHS to ask if there is any type of investigation into workers’ comp cases, a spokesperson directed Alpha News to Minnesota’s Department of Labor and Industry (DLI).
Neither DHS or DLI directly answered if anyone is investigating Balsimo’s concerns. Instead, DLI explained how the workers’ comp system in Minnesota operates and 
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