Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent: Reward Money for Whistleblowers in Minnesota’s Growing Fraud Scandal

Breitbart ^ | 01/10/2026 | Lowell Cauffiel

[DFG]

Cash payments will be waiting for whistleblowers who provide information related to Minnesota’s unfolding fraud scandal, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday.

The announcement of reward money comes as the Trump administration is pursuing wide-scale fraud investigations in Minnesota due to persistent allegations involving money-laundering schemes, pirating of federal human services funds, and other misuse of taxpayer money.

“We know that these rats will turn on each other,” Bessent told Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle on Friday.

“We are going to offer whistleblower payments to anyone who wants to tell us the who, what, when, where, and how this fraud has been done. I think that that will give us a great leap forward on how to get it done,” he added.

The secretary did not detail how whistleblowers should go about tipping off authorities, though the Treasury Department does have a webpage dedicated to reporting “fraud, waste, and abuse.”

Persistent and multi-agency allegations of fraud, many tied to the Somali community in the state, have been unfolding on almost a daily basis in recent weeks as the administration has also ramped up its illegal immigration crackdown there.

As Breitbart News reported back in December, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that 85 Somalian nationals have been charged regarding ongoing fraud taking place in Minnesota, with “more prosecutions coming.”

Those comments followed independent journalist Nick Shirley’s video showing him visiting daycare centers that were reportedly receiving millions of dollars in federal aid despite there being no signs of children at the locations.

The scope of the fraud scandal has expanded substantially since then and resulted in Gov. Tim Walz announcing that he will not be running for reelection.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: fraud; minnesota; whistleblowers

[bigbob]

Tim Walz did it in the governor’s mansion with his head shoved up his ass.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“”””“We know that these rats will turn on each other,” Bessent told Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle on Friday. “We are going to offer whistleblower payments to anyone who wants to tell us the who, what, when, where, and how””””

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I am liking Bessent more and more. Publicly calling the MN Democrat Government Employees a bunch of rats is classic.

[jroehl]

1) You have to know who is getting money for childcare, then
2) Spend time hanging outside their building to see if any kids show up.

Can we get a list of the people who are receiving childcare funds? I would like to know that.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The whole thing is a gigantic Democrat power play going back decades. Kunstler nails it today.

Their main client in all this mischief is the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party’s chief motivation, its raison d’être going on at least ten years now, has been to hide its multifarious crimes, its vast racketeering operations now garishly on display in the state of Minnesota, where the grift just went too far and was done right in America’s face.

Who can possibly fail to see how it works? Import a bunch of people from a foreign land. . . enable them to set up a vast network of social services frauds. . . organize them for ballot harvesting and election fraud. . . and kick-back bundles of money to Democratic Party politicians.

If anybody notices, yell “racist!” Sound the klaxon to turn out a thousand LARPing protesters on the Soros payroll. Provide them with signs, banners, black-bloc outfits, cartoon costumes, pride flags, umbrellas, snacks, bullhorns, pallets of bricks, and hope that some of them get hurt so you can manufacture the next martyr.

The crescendo of this long-running seditious treason was the wide open border during the four-year fake presidency of “Joe Biden,” including the colossal coordinated scam of funding who-knows-how-many NGOs with additional US taxpayer money, funneled through the UN, to process, transport, and outfit with social security numbers and debit cards X-millions of alien mutts, professional terrorists, gang-bangers, mental patients, and actual soldiers from faraway lands, and sprinkle them into every cranny of the republic to queer the next election and otherwise cause as much disruption as possible to the everyday life of actual US citizens.

They flooded the country with millions dependent on the Democratic Party’s largess — your tax dollars — and now they are doing everything possible to prevent the removal of this riffraff back to their countries of origin. Starting a civil war over it, in fact, because that’s what it’s come to. The federal agents tasked with the removal operation are apparently not allowed to defend themselves when the LARPing street cadres attack them. There have been 66 car attacks against ICE officers since January, 2025. State and local officials in Minneapolis have behaved so dishonestly that federal investigators kicked them off what is now a federal case in the matter of “ICE-tracker” Renee Nicole Good, shot dead at the scene in her car. Minnesota will not be permitted to turn ICE agent Jonathan Ross into another Derek Chauvin. That sort of hustle is over.

"That sort of hustle is over." Don't count the chickens before they are hatched. The Dems insatiable thirst for power means they will invent new schemes to destroy the Republic.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””Can we get a list of the people who are receiving childcare funds? I would like to know that.”””

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I have not seen a list.

In the 2024 Walz vs. Vance debate, Walz was bragging that something like 1500 new daycares had opened up during his governorship.

[xp38]

Minnesota for sure but how about making it nationwide?

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””The whole thing is a gigantic Democrat power play going back decades. Kunstler nails it today.”””

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Yes, Kunstler nails hit. He confirms all of my yapping on FR about NGOs, corrupt election systems, and other waste, fraud, abuse issues.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””Minnesota for sure but how about making it nationwide?”””

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At Bessent’s presser he said MN would be the template for doing the same thing in the other states.

Remember that Rome was not built in a day and taking down the Democrat Mafia Family will also take time.

[FlingWingFlyer]

No telling how many pallets of Tampons Tiny Timmy Twolips gave away cheap to the Sammies.

[jroehl]

To get a list of all providers (child care centers, family child care homes, etc.) receiving **federal funds** for childcare in Minnesota (primarily through the **Child Care Assistance Program - CCAP**), note that **individual recipient-level data** (names of families or specific payments) is **protected** under privacy laws (e.g., HIPAA, FERPA, and state data privacy rules). Public disclosure of personal recipients is not available.

However, **licensed providers** receiving CCAP funds are publicly trackable through state resources, as CCAP payments go to licensed or registered providers. Here’s how to access the most complete public information:

### 1. **Main Public Tool: DHS Licensing Information Lookup** (Free, Online, Searchable)
This is the primary official source for all DHS-licensed child care programs in Minnesota, including those eligible for and receiving CCAP funds.

- Website: https://licensinglookup.dhs.state.mn.us/
- Search by: Provider name, city, county, ZIP code, license number, or program type (e.g., Family Child Care, Child Care Center).
- What you get: License status, license holder, type of service, effective dates, monitoring visits, complaints, and more.
- Why it’s useful: Nearly all CCAP providers must be licensed/certified, so this covers the vast majority receiving federal/state funds.

### 2. **Parent Aware Provider Search** (Also Free)
- Website: https://www.parentaware.org/
- Search for licensed and rated providers (many CCAP participants are rated here).
- Includes quality ratings, capacity, and contact info.

### 3. **County/Tribal CCAP Agency Directory**
CCAP is administered locally by counties and tribes. The state provides a contact list for providers:
- PDF/Guide: https://minnesotadcyf.us.engagementhq.com/26673/widgets/101181/documents/69612 (2025 CCAP Provider Contact List)
- Or search county offices: https://mn.gov/dhs/general-public/about-dhs/contact-us/county-and-tribal-nation-offices/
- Contact your county for local provider lists (some publish partial directories).

### 4. **Aggregated/Statistical Data (Not Individual Providers)**
- Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) reports: https://dcyf.mn.gov/programs-directory/child-care-assistance-program
- Annual reports show total providers, funding, and participation (e.g., ~4,000 providers serve ~23,000 children monthly via CCAP).

### Limitations
- **No full public list of “all CCAP-funded providers”** exists in one downloadable file due to privacy and data protection rules.
- **FOIA/Data Request**: You can submit a data request to DCYF (via mn.gov/dhs or email) for aggregated/non-personal data, but individual provider payment details are typically withheld.

**Best starting point**: Use the DHS Licensing Lookup tool above — search by county (e.g., Hennepin for Minneapolis area) and filter for child care types. It’s the most comprehensive public resource.

If you need help searching a specific county or type of provider, provide more details!

[curious7]

Hopefully they will prioritize the swing states in the coming election and hamstring the commie’s ability to fund the election fraud there.

[jroehl]

That was from Grok. Notice that they will use privacy rules to protect the thieves.

[Aria]

A girl here in Washington started calling daycares that were listed on the state website and got women who could barely speak English who indicated they had no openings or whatever.

When she started calling there were over 170 listings...yesterday they were down to 72 listings on the website.

[jroehl]

It has been my experience that sunshine laws, whistleblower laws and so forth are a lot of fun for politicians to pass but when you attempt to avail yourself of these mechanisms, the bureaucrats have figured out a hundred ways to thwart your attempts.

Read “The Trial” by Franz Kafka

[Liz]

Laugh break.

There’s hundreds of leftwing journalists and airheaded
Democrats looking high and low, searching Minneapolis
<><>for just one clean, well-run Somali daycare full of happy thriving children
<><>for daycares w/ well-kept record books to show the tax-paying public
<><>perhaps there’s a lawful Somali-run food bank providing food for the hungry.
<><>Or a law-abiding Somali autism treatment center with doctors and therapists treating patients.
<><>Or a Somali transport company, happily carrying the aged and infirm to Dr’s appointments.

Lefties are looking for “Anything” to prove Nick Shirley had just found a few bad apples.......
(like Abraham trying desperately to find ten righteous souls)........

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There's "waste," but it's probably 1% of the outright fraud.

The whole thing was engineering by Democrats at the highest levels. There's no way these deformed Somalian neanderthals with IQ of 70 who were pirating ships a couple years ago suddenly thought:

"I KNOW!! Screw piracy! Let's go to America and scam their welfare systems! We'll create bogus "learing centers" and "autism centers" and fake "non-emergency transportation services" and collect hundreds of millions. Then we'll spirit the money back here in briefcases full of cash. We'll sneak it right by the banks and TSA! We'll be RICH RICH RICH."

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“”””Hopefully they will prioritize the swing states in the coming election and hamstring the commie’s ability to fund the election fraud there.””””

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I am also hopeful the lack of money going to paid protestors will depress their enthusiasm to do massive cheating in Nov 2026.

[parmamenian]

For the love of God, please arrest somebody already. You can’t track the money trail to these fraudsters???

[tennmountainman]

Deploy every available FBI Agent to MN.