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JUST IN: Bombshell Report Links Amy Klobuchar To Minnesota Fraud Scandal
Another major Minnesota Democrat is being pulled into the political fallout surrounding an autism provider now under state investigation, with records showing the center’s CEO previously worked on Amy Klobuchar’s first U.S. Senate campaign.
Nimco Ahmed, CEO of Milestone Development Center, has been a fixture in Democratic-Farmer-Labor politics for years and recently drew attention after appearing alongside Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in a viral video.
Now Alpha News reports that Ahmed was also part of Klobuchar’s political operation during her first Senate run in 2006.
A 2006 profile published by Mshale reported that Ahmed joined the “Klobuchar team” and listed her contact email as [email protected].
Other archived articles from the outlet also identified Ahmed as a staffer on Klobuchar’s 2006 campaign.
Federal campaign finance records cited in the report indicate Klobuchar’s campaign paid Ahmed nearly $8,000 during that election cycle.
The connection is drawing new scrutiny because Milestone Development Center is currently under investigation by the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
DHS has confirmed that Milestone and Spectrum Therapy Center are both subjects of open investigations.
The agency has also said both providers were terminated from participating in Medicaid through Minnesota’s 2026 revalidation process and have appealed those decisions.
.@AmyKlobuchar made Minnesota’s fraud WORSE.
The receipts are all in the Fraud File… pic.twitter.com/pbKJha1wHM
— Restore Sanity (@RestoreSanityMN) September 21, 2026
Ahmed has not been charged with a crime, and DHS has not publicly detailed the scope of its investigation.
She has denied wrongdoing and accused Alpha News of bias in its reporting about Milestone.
The investigation centers in part on allegations raised by a former therapist, who told Alpha News he saw what he believed were red flags involving staffing, treatment and documentation at the center.
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The allegations have not been proven in court.
The political connection has drawn additional attention because Amy Klobuchar is running for governor while making government accountability and fraud prevention central themes of her campaign.
Klobuchar has promised “immediate action to root out fraud,” including a “top-to-bottom audit” of state government.
Republican state Rep. Max Rymer seized on the revelations, arguing that Ahmed’s relationships with prominent DFL politicians reflect a broader problem within the party.
“Fraud is so engrained in the Minnesota Democrat Party — a feature of their political apparatus, not a bug,” Rymer wrote on X.
Rymer also pointed to what he described as a pattern of “friendly photos together, financial earmarks for them, promises to protect them in closed door meetings.”
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“A never-ending insult to Minnesotans,” he added.
Long before Ahmed became the head of Milestone, she was building a profile as a Somali community activist and Democratic operative in Minnesota.
A May 2006 profile said Ahmed had been courted by multiple political campaigns before ultimately choosing to work with Klobuchar.
The article reported that Ahmed joined the “Klobuchar team” during Klobuchar’s first Senate campaign.
The same profile said Ahmed backed Klobuchar in part because she believed Somali immigrants “should be accommodated to achieve their American dream.”
There is no evidence that Klobuchar is accused of wrongdoing in connection with Milestone‘s current investigation.
The newly surfaced records instead show a past political relationship between Klobuchar and Ahmed nearly two decades before the autism center came under state scrutiny.
