Former Vikings captain Jack Brewer opens up about witnessing Minnesota's 'Somali elite' amid fraud revelations

Jack Brewer, CEO of The Brewer Group, reacts to Minnesota mayors expressing deep concern over state fraud and unchecked spending, resulting in an estimated $9 billion deficit.

Former Minnesota Viking and University of Minnesota football player Jack Brewer said he's seen high-end business involving the "elite" Somali population in Minnesota up close. In the process, he witnessed a demographic and class transformation in his home state.

"You go to one of them, and they have Bentley and Maserati dealerships in Minnesota. I know because I’ve done business with them, and I’ve been endorsed by them as an athlete," Brewer told Fox News Digital. 

"Now, you go in there, and some of their main customers are these Somali fraudsters buying high-end cars in a state that gets four months of sunlight and decent weather. They’re driving around sports cars like you would see in Beverly Hills or South Beach Miami, all off the back of the American taxpayer."

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Images of empty daycare centers have become a sudden cultural flashpoint across the nation. Minnesota is embroiled in a growing scandal after revelations that potentially billions in taxpayer dollars were distributed fraudulently through members of the state's Somali population.

Brewer recalls the moment he began to see that reality take shape, when the Somali population began to suddenly boom across his state 28 years ago. He witnessed this as a husband to a Muslim American legal immigrant. 

"I have been in Minnesota a long time. My wife was born and raised there, from a family of immigrants that came from the Middle East, came to America, assimilated and not just assimilated but actually made me more patriotic," Brewer said. 

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