Posted on 01/07/2026 8:15:02 AM PST by Red Badger
You know how the Somali childcare fraud has been a big thing, kind of an open secret in Minnesota for years now?
Well, not only has this been happening for at least a decade, but, according to this report, the state has known about it for at least that long.
Check out these receipts from Maze on X detailing a nine-year-old investigation into the fraud at Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program -- an investigation that went nowhere.
The Minnesota child care fraud saga is so strange because years ago it was fully investigated, documented, and reported on by a team of state investigators set up to catch and stop child care fraud.
They spent years gathering evidence including many hours of surveillance footage. In 2018 they compiled a detailed report and delivered it to their boss, the DHS Inspector General.
Directly from the report: 'Investigators, as well as the Supervisor and Manager of this unit believe that the overall fraud rate in this program is at least 50% of the $217M paid to child care centers in CY2017.'
What did the Inspector General do with this information? She refused to meet with her own team, refused to discuss the findings of the report, and then spent $90,000 of taxpayer money to have an outside company write a report saying the fraud isn't quite as bad as her own team of investigators was claiming.
Woke is a heckuva drug, isn't it?
So is corruption, scamming, and Democratic politics in general.
Here's part of the email to the inspector general with the results of the investigation, detailing fraud going back to 2014.
There are 13 pages of the report, and if you want to read the whole thing you can start here.
But here's the main problem:
The Inspector General was a woman named Carolyn Ham. The child fraud inspectors who worked for her claimed that she wouldn’t even speak to them.
She was placed on paid leave for about 8 months and then allowed to leave the position without disciplinary action.— MAZE (@mazemoore) January 6, 2026
In addition to the stonewalling, according to these reports, she hired an outside investigator to - essentially - override her office's findings and clear the fraudsters of a large part of their wrongdoing.
This helps explain how the fraud has gone on so long. It was discovered a decade ago and is somehow now worse than ever.
This is the woman who deliberately derailed the Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota.
Democrats, go ahead and ignore this. We know you will.
Elders Against Fossil Fuels? Now I’ve seen everything.
The Dems are trying to turn Walz into the scapegoat for the Somali fraud. The reality is that the entire Dem establishment in Minnesota participated in it and should be kicked out of office and perhaps jailed. The MSM is going to do its best to run cover for the Dems on this.
Lock her up! Let her share a cell with Hitlery.
Where are the arrest? Why are the people running Minnesota government not facing justice?
The FBI has forensic auditors, I’d like to see a team give her finances a very invasive examination.
Arrest and jail. Strip pensions. She actually threatened the families of whistle-blowers. (What schools and bus-stops do your children use?”)
Re your post: I’ll go out on a limb and predict that nobody in the giant Dem Minnesota fraud machine will ever be punished. Lots of people will be exposed but they will quietly fade away. At the very least people like Walz should be required to pay restitution to U.S. taxpayers, but there is some kind of aversion in this country to holding anyone accountable for anything. As a nation we seem to accept corruption instead of punishing it.
Pls see my #9.
Can you spell ‘kick backs’
Communists are the same all over the world. Threaten, intimidate and rule thru fear..................
Is she sure that sign shouldn’t read Old Fossils Against Elder Food.
How many shovels did she use up shoveling money out the window ?
Why are Caucasian AMERICAN Taxpayers paying 9 billion dollars to feed, provide daycare, baby sit and change crappy diapers for the spawn of knuckledragging Somali losers?
HHS said this yesterday.
“”””Unfortunately, the Biden-Harris administration adopted rules for the Child Care and Development Fund that created serious vulnerabilities.
Those policies weakened accountability and made fraud easier, not harder.
That’s why today we released a proposed rule to repeal those Biden-era mandates.
The proposed rule does three important things. First, it ends the requirement that taxpayer dollars must pay for child care before services are provided.
States will no longer be forced to send payments to providers up front.
Second, it ends the mandate for enrollment-based billing. Payments can once again be based on verified attendance, not just enrollment, so that providers can’t bill for children who never show up.
And third, it ends the mandate to pre-fund guaranteed seats at child care centers without competition.”””
The Minnesota fraudsters will use the above Biden-Harris Rule Changes to CYA their fraudulent activities.
“Those policies weakened accountability and made fraud easier, not harder.”
As they were designed to do................
Am I weird for finding it funny that the Attorney General is a Muslim and the Inspector General is Ham?
And by the way... where is the interest in Minnesota’s very news-prominent Attorney General, former Vice Chair of the DNC, Keith Ellison?
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