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Ed Department: Nearly 2,000 Minnesota ‘Ghost Students’ Fraudulently Received $12.5 Million
The Federalist ^ | December 16, 2025 | Breccan F. Thies

Posted on 12/17/2025 4:41:27 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 12/17/2025 4:41:27 AM PST by Red Badger
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Democrats doing what Democrats do. Nothing to see here, move along.


2 posted on 12/17/2025 4:45:10 AM PST by Russ (I )
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Wake me when someone is perp-walked


3 posted on 12/17/2025 4:46:06 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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and pocketed the rest–without attending the college at all,”

How is that any different from college football?

4 posted on 12/17/2025 4:49:51 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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Tip of the iceberg.


5 posted on 12/17/2025 4:51:48 AM PST by Rlsau1
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Damn, the one time I thought an article was from the Babylon Bee without looking at the heading. The only way we should ever accept Puerto Rico, the Caribbean Garbage landfill is if Somalisota withdraws from the United States.


6 posted on 12/17/2025 4:52:25 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Freedom isn' FREE. Neither is Socialism. Somebody has to pick up the tab for the freeloaders.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

At least the football players show up on Saturday’s games.........


7 posted on 12/17/2025 4:54:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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McMahon needs to “claw” this 12.5 million taxpayer dollars from Walz’s jock strap and his Sammie’s boxes of race card coupons.


8 posted on 12/17/2025 4:55:42 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Freedom isn' FREE. Neither is Socialism. Somebody has to pick up the tab for the freeloaders.)
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My bet is a lot of districts nationwide are doing this, and not just the major metros.

Every district in the country needs to be audited.


9 posted on 12/17/2025 4:56:18 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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everyone involved should be (and should have been)
fired, tried, jailed, with loss of their pensions and homes.


10 posted on 12/17/2025 4:58:00 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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BRAVE AI:

As of 2022, there are 3,144 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. When including the 100 county equivalents in the U.S. territories, the total number of counties and county-equivalents in the United States is 3,244.


11 posted on 12/17/2025 4:58:28 AM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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So are these “ghost students” also voting in Governor Topper’s Minnesota?


12 posted on 12/17/2025 5:00:53 AM PST by Bernard ("Nothing is as expensive as that which the government provides for free." - Ronald Reagan)
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From 2022 and Baltimordor...

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/failure-factory-project-baltimore-investigates-ghost-students

From 2020 and Indiana...

https://www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2020/2/26/21178644/how-the-state-missed-thousands-of-ghost-students-at-two-indiana-virtual-schools/

2010 and Indiana...

https://www.ibj.com/articles/22642-ghost-students-cost-indiana-94-million-in-2009

2014 and Chicago...

https://blackyouthproject.com/report-chicago-public-school-administrators-faked-data-to-pad-school-enrollment-gain-additional-resources/

And not just students, union reps masquerading as teachers...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/pennsylvania-school-district-hit-with-ghost-teacher-lawsuit


13 posted on 12/17/2025 5:07:58 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: Hot Tabasco

College football is funded mostly with gate and TV rights receipts, not taxpayer funding.


14 posted on 12/17/2025 5:07:59 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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15 posted on 12/17/2025 5:08:23 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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“[Y]our careless lack of oversight and abuse of the welfare system has attracted fraudsters from around the world, especially from Somalia, to establish a beachhead of criminality in our country,”

Carelessness or design?

I would put my money or design.

Tampon Tim is as crooked as 50 miles of West Virginia highway.

16 posted on 12/17/2025 5:09:08 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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Here is my assessment on MN having grown up there.
Since the 60’s, it has been pretty much one party rule.
There was a brief move right during Reagan but they were eventually kicked out by the Minneapolis university machine.
Over the decades, the DFL experimented to see how far they could go.
Since no one complained or bothered to investigate, they began their march into full on Socialism.

Obama began the real change as many of his minions from Chicago began gaining power in MN.
It all became about $$$$$ and if you wanted money, there was a group that would make sure you got LOTS.

Minnesotans who never figured they would amount to anything had huge amounts of cash dropped in their laps.
I know this for sure as I saw it happen to family members.

Now the lights are on MN and they can’t hide.
All they can do is block and evade but as history shows us, the DNC is REALLY good at “block and evade”

The national GOP needs to stop playing with Epstein, Rand, and surprisingly “Crossfire Hurricane” (block and evade has won) and concentrate on MN and the corruption.


17 posted on 12/17/2025 5:52:29 AM PST by Zathras
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But President Trump had a mean tweet. We should be looking at that and not the massive fraud allowed by a tarded governor. /sarc


18 posted on 12/17/2025 5:52:41 AM PST by Dan Zachary
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It’s also happening in Ohio and Maine, both of which have sizeable Somali communities..............


19 posted on 12/17/2025 5:54:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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And just as fraudulent is the Minnesota news media who is downplaying this scandal, defending the policitians, and even endorsing Walz for re-election!


20 posted on 12/17/2025 5:55:32 AM PST by MNnice
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