Posted on 03/07/2026 6:16:33 AM PST by MtnClimber
The new interim staff report on Minnesota’s fraud describes criminal activity that was enabled by a horrifying pattern of spineless government incompetence and systemic failure. Some say Minnesota is just the tip of the iceberg. Best guess? Government, both state and federal, is rife with it.
According to the March 4, 2026 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report, “The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Tim Walz and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota’s Fraud Explosion,” there was a massive failure in “governance and oversight” that allowed “known fraud and criminal schemes to flourish,” even as resources were diverted away from “the vulnerable populations these programs were intended to serve.”
Since 2018, it is estimated that “half or more of the $18 billion in total expenditures was fraud.” After the Trump administration threatened to withhold federal funding for Department of Human Services (DHS) programs “because of widespread fraud,” Minnesota “froze all provider enrollment for the high-risk programs in January 2026.”
The Investigation
The committee built the record with transcribed interviews with “nine current and former state officials spanning the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Department of Human Services (DHS), including former and temporary DHS commissioners and Walz’s former chief of staff.” Document production was limited: Walz’s office “produced 48 documents and email communications (totaling 177 pages), and Ellison’s office produced 11 documents (including one duplicate) totaling 97 pages.”
The report references 98 charged individuals tied to widespread fraud in Minnesota. It says 85 are Somali, and “more than 60 have been found guilty in court.” These criminal actors hijacked 14 Medicaid programs designated “‘high risk’ for fraud by DHS.”
The committee focused on four high-risk programs with the most indictments and confirmed fraud: Housing Stabilization Services (HSS), Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI), Integrated Community Supports (ICS),
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It wasn’t a failure of oversight, it was an orchestrated heist. Walz, Flanagan, Ellison, Omar, Klobuchar, Smith, Craig all knew, all participated, all profited.
All should be in prison as a result.
Probably so. Using the Somalis was not a risk during a democrat administration, but was a real weak link otherwise. I think Oregon has a bigger fraud scheme but it is much better hidden.
To the left this is not fraud, it is redistribution of wealth which they help to orchestrate.
It's worse than that.
The dirty little secret is that ALL our lives, we generally did not work for money, we did not save money, and we do not have money, since a dollar is a unit of debt. Has been since at least 1913. So many repercussions to this, it's literally unbelievable.
The good news today is the Trump Admin is in the process of restoral of real Constitutional money to the financial system. Note the attacks on the FED, Jerome Powell, prices of gold/silver, USDebtClock.org, Epstein files and Les Staley, Jamie Diamond and Mary Erdoes, Grace Report ("all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services that taxpayers expect from their government") just for starters.
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