Minnesota’s multimillion-dollar day care fraud reportedly stretches back to 2014, saw scammers leave U.S. with up to $1M a pop in cash | 29 Dec 2025 | Minnesota’s rampant fraud involving taxpayer-funded day care reportedly goes back at least as far as 2014 and allegedly involved scammers stuffing carry-on luggage with as much as $1 million a pop to smuggle out of the country. Tens of millions of dollars in cash transported in luggage started flying out of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport around a decade ago, with a marked uptick beginning in 2016 when travelers departed with a total of $84 million and another $100 million the next year, Fox 9 reported in 2018. The troubling report has taken on explosive new significance since the feds alleged a mind-boggling up to $9 billion fraud scheme in which supposed businesses such as day cares lied about providing desperately needed services to the needy to illegally rake in millions off dollars in government funding.