Posted on 08/18/2024 6:27:13 AM PDT by dennisw
Ramsey County District Court Judge John Guthmann in 2022 admonished Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) for making “inaccurate” and “false” statements in claiming he forced the governor to continue making payments to the scandal-ridden Feeding Our Future nonprofit, which is at the center of a scheme to steal $250 million from a coronavirus-era welfare program.
Breitbart News reported about how Gov. Walz’s lax oversight of a federal food aid program led to dozens of Somali migrants stealing $250 million for a program meant for children in need.
In September 2022, the Justice Department charged 47 Somali immigrants in Minnesota with stealing $250 million from a coronavirus relief program meant to feed needy children. Only $50 million has been recovered as of June.
Breitbart News reported in June:
The scheme involved the 47 defendants, whom prosecutors say created an umbrella group called “Feeding Our Future” and then created numerous sub-groups that were advertised as bringing food to needy children during the pandemic. The accused allegedly used the fraudulent groups to file for relief funding at mosques across Minnesota. Once they obtained the funding, they reported feeding thousands of children every day and supplied rosters of non-existent children to the government to show their outreach.
One such fraudulent feeding center was so brazen that it just copied all the names from a website called listofrandomnames.com and sent that list to federal authorities to claim that it fed the people on the list, prosecutors said.
An audit by a nonpartisan watchdog found that Walz’s Department of Education failed to conduct proper oversight over the program.
Walz has claimed that he was forced to continue making payments to Feeding Our Future, which Guthmann strongly slapped down in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
In a 2022 statement, Guthmann approved a release stating that Walz’s claim is “false:”
On February 26, 2022, the Star Tribune reported on a federal investigation of FOF. The article included the following false statement: “In April 2021, Ramsey County District Judge John Guthmann told the department it didn’t have the authority to stop payments and ordered the department to resume payments.” Since February, that Star Tribune quote has been repeated or paraphrased on many occasions by many other media outlets. The same media sources reported that, in her April 4, 2022, testimony to the Minnesota Senate, the Commissioner of the Education stated that the MN Department of Education tried to stop payments to FOF, only to be ordered by Judge Guthmann to resume payments.
That is false. Then, when federal indictments were announced this week, many new reports were published. On September 22, 2022, Governor Tim Walz told the media that the Minnesota Department of Education attempted to end payments to FOF because of possible fraud, but that Judge Guthmann ordered payments to continue in April 2021. That is also false.
As the public court record and Judge Guthmann’s orders make plain, Judge Guthmann never issued an order requiring the MN Department of Education to resume food reimbursement payments to FOF. The Department of Education voluntarily resumed payments and informed the court that FOF resolved the “serious deficiencies” that prompted it to suspend payments temporarily. All of the MN Department of Education food reimbursement payments to FOF were made voluntarily, without any court order. [Emphasis added]
The Judge’s statement then said that it was Walz’s Department of Education that resumed payments to FOF, claiming that the nonprofit’s “serious deficiencies” were resolved as of June 2021.
Walz’s claim nis false? Totalitarian Tim lies? Who’da thunkit?
What was his cut and how much did he sent to his beloved China? This freak truly despises the United States of America and all Caucasians. He will be stealing money just like the Bidens but he’s not half as smart as them.
BTTT
So they cleaned up all the fraud in two months?
CCP puppet Putz demonstrates how careless socialists are with taxpayer money. In this case it was federal money so he even cared less. Worse, when exposed, he lied about it. Oversight is non existent when 250 million is disbursed for meals in a state with 5 million people. A common theme in stories about Putz is that he is a terrible liar.
Somali Muslims are the worst, most useless possible immigrants ever. The dumb+evil Lutheran Church brought them to Minneapolis and Minnesota. 100,000 of them. (Might be a bit fewer)
Walz is a member of the Lutheran Church. Did he become one in Minnestoa for political benefits? He was born in Nebraska, migrated to Minnesota.
As a Commiecrat, Tampontim has long demonstrated that he is a pathological liar.
Gov. Walz’s lax oversight of a federal food aid program led to dozens of Somali migrants stealing $250 million for a program meant for children in need.
Walz’s skills are as useless as Harris skills are what a team
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In Wisconsin, last week voters voted down by a large margin a referendum to give control of these kinds of funds to the legislature instead of just the governor controlling it. They just don’t get the connection with federal money being used for vote buying schemes.
Walz is a member of the so-called "Evangelical Lutheran Church of America", which is better known as the "XXXA", since it has nothing to do with being Evangelical, Lutheran, or even Christian. This apostate organization fondles itself in leftist perversion and wokeism.
Why don’t Republicans demand to see HIS bank records?
They own his ass.
“...Tampontim has long demonstrated that he is a pathological liar.”
Don’t forget, muslims are taught to lie to “non-believers”.
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Thank you!
Pastor Charles is rolling over in his grave.
No kidding!
So is Martin Luther!
doj.gov
The thieving Somalis colluded to recruit other Somalis to open
phony Child Nutrition Program sites throughout Walz’s Minnesota.
<><>They fraudulently claimed 1000’s of children a day were fed within just days or weeks of being formed.
<><>they created dozens of phony shell companies to enroll in the federal program
<><>phony shell companies were invented to receive and launder the $250 million fraudulent proceeds
<><>they falsified documents to get their hands on tax dollars
<><>They submitted fraudulent data to document the number of children and meals served
<><>They submitted false invoices purporting to document the purchase of food served to phantom children
<><> The Somalis submitted fake attendance rosters purporting to list the names and ages of children being fed
<><>rosters were fabricated and created using fake names from a website called “www.listofrandomnames.com.”
<><>the federal program only reimbursed for meals served to children,
<><>so the conniving Somalis used an Excel formula to falsify the age column of the rosters.
Despite knowing the claims were fraudulent, the Somali’s phony, “Feeding Our Future,” submitted fraudulent claims and then disbursed the fraudulently obtained Federal Child Nutrition Program funds to the individuals and entities colluding in the scheme.
<><>In exchange for sponsoring these sites’ fraudulent participation in the program, “Feeding Our Future” received more than $18 million in administrative fees to which it was not entitled.
<><>In addition to the administrative fees, Feeding Our Future employees solicited and received bribes and kickbacks from individuals and companies sponsored by Feeding Our Future.
<><>Many of these kickbacks were paid in cash or disguised as “consulting fees” paid to shell companies created by Feeding Our Future employees to make them appear legitimate.
The thieving Somalis went on high-end spending sprees purchasing luxury cars and property
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