Heiress sparks new turn in Somali fraud scandal by speculating link to MURDER of Minnesota Democrat lawmaker
Democrat lawmaker Melissa Hortman was fatally shot alongside her husband on June 14. Socialite Sara Foster said she believes the murders are linked to the state's Somali fraud scheme.
A Minnesota state senator has slammed actress and socialite Sara Foster after she linked the murder of Democrat lawmaker Melissa Hortman to the erupting Somali fraud probe.
Hortman and her husband Mark were fatally shot in their Brooklyn Park home by suspect Vance Luther Boelter earlier this year.
Boelter allegedly planned to target 45 liberal lawmakers and abortion providers, according to police.
But Foster, the 44-year-old daughter of Canadian record producer David Foster, took to X on Saturday to suggest Hortman's death is linked to investigations into alleged fraud in the Somali community in Minnesota.
Scrutiny over the state's spending intensified this week after a viral video emerged showing an apparently empty daycare in Hennepin County which has allegedly received $4 million in taxpayers' money.
'So are we just planning on pretending like her murder isn’t connected to the multi billion fraud scandal just uncovered? Mmmmkay,' Foster wrote.
Foster wrote the comment alongside a video showing Hortman weeping after she had cast the lone Democratic vote in favor of repealing eligibility for undocumented adults to access MinnesotaCare just days before she was killed.
Foster's remarks were panned by Republican State Senator Julia Coleman, who shut down the 'conspiracy theory', stating 'the fraud had nothing to do with the assassinations'.
Actress and socialite Sara Foster (pictured in September) has claimed the death of Democrat lawmaker Melissa Hortman is linked to the ongoing Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota
Hortman was tragically shot to death alongside her husband, Mark, on June 14 in their Brooklyn Park home
'I am a Minnesota Republican legislator. I never agreed with Melissa. Not once. But I’m begging people to stop sharing this conspiracy theory,' Coleman wrote on X on Sunday.
She went on to discuss the video of Hortman, who was visibly emotional following a meeting on her decision to cast a vote that broke with her political party.
In the clip, Hortman said: 'What I worry about is that people will lose their health insurance. I know that people will be hurt by that vote, and I'm...
'We worked very hard to try to get a budget deal that wouldn't include that provision. And we tried any other way we could to come to a budget agreement with Republicans and they wouldn't have it.'