Two men from Pennsylvania pleaded guilty Monday to “fraud tourism,” i.e., repeatedly traveling to Minneapolis to swindle $3.5 million from the state’s Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) program by using artificial intelligence (AI) to create phony records to hide their scheme. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has begun to unravel what it referred to as the “prolific fraud on government programs in Minnesota” through collaboration between the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota and the DOJ’s Criminal Division’s Fraud Section.