Posted on 09/04/2024 11:57:20 AM PDT by DFG
The House Education and Workforce Committee subpoenaed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday for records related to a $250 million COVID-19 relief fraud scheme that occurred on his watch.
Walz, 60, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, was ordered to hand over any documents about the scandal, which involved pandemic relief funds being distributed via “the Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) administration of federal child nutrition programs (FCNP).”
Rather than nourishing hungry children, however, the money funded lavish lifestyles — including fancy cars and real estate holdings as far away as Turkey and Kenya — for the operators of a fraudulent Minneapolis-based nonprofit, Feeding Our Future.
State agencies were tasked with administering the funds and then submitting reimbursement claims to the USDA.
“The Committee must now compel the production of responsive documents that will show the extent of the actions taken by you and your administration relating to MDE’s administration of the FCNP and the extent of your responsibilities and actions addressing the massive fraud that resulted in the abuse of taxpayer dollars intended for hungry children,” Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said in a letter accompanying the subpoena.
At least 70 people were initially charged for their involvement in the “depraved and brazen” gambit, as one prosecutor put it, between April 2020 and January 2022, when the FBI conducted raids of the fake nonprofit.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“occurred on his watch”?
No Walz was the architect of the fraud.
THIS IS BEYOND DELICIOUS
This will probably go nowhere, but the very idea that a subpoena was issued is great political ammunition for our side.
Walz meet Spiro Agnew.
A charged Felon running for VP office!
RE: Spiro Agnew.
I know you mean to reference resignation from VP.
But I still like the way Agnew took on the mission of blasting the soft on crime ACLU leftists in the Dem Party.
He took no prisoners.
Walz piled on taxpayers ordering them to “Mind your Own Damn Business,”
But he graciously allowed Somali thieves to steal $250M tax dollars.
Judge Warned Tim Walz to Stop Lying About $250 Million Fraud by Minnesota Somalis
Walz’s DOE failed to conduct proper oversight over the tax-funded program.
Breitbart ^ | 8-7-2024 | Tim Moran / FR Posted on 8/18/2024, 9:27:13 AM 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: The Somali 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 Somalis allegedly used the fraudulent groups to file for relief funding at mosques across Gov Walz’s 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 Dept 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 ...
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 being fed
<><>brazenly, within just days or weeks of being formed, the Somalis were feeding kids.
<><>they created dozens of phony shell companies to steal tax dollars from the federal program
<><>phony shell companies received and laundered $250 million fraudulent proceeds
<><>they falsified govt documents to get their hands on tax dollars
<><>fraudulent data ‘documented’ the number of children and meals served
<><>false invoices ‘documented’ phony purchases of food served to phantom children
<><>fake attendance rosters listed phantom names and ages of children being fed
<><>Somalis fabricated and created fake names from “www.listofrandomnames.com” web site
<><>federal tax dollars only reimbursed for meals served to children,
<><>so the conniving Somalis used Excel to falsify the ages on the rosters.
Despite knowing the claims were fraudulent, the Somali’s phony, “Feeding Our Future,” submitted fraudulent claims and then disbursed the fraudulently obtained $250 million Federal Child Nutrition Program tax funds to the individuals and entities colluding in the scheme.
<><>sponsors of the 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 administrative fees, “Feeding Our Future” fraudsters colluded to solicit and receive bribes and kickbacks from individual Somalis 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.
Details of the Somali $250 million fraud is a revealing
insight into the greed of these ingrates, given shelter here.
Odd isnt it......the refugees “magically knew” all
the ins and outs of sophisticated federal programs.
Musta had help from “someone” in Congress who represents them.....snx.
Tampon Timmy didn’t want to do anything about the fraud right under his nose because... Muslims.
Ha.
Maybe his fellow veterans who stood side by side with him in war as he shouldered his weapon before laying it down beside his many medals will now come to his defense. /S
((crickets))
And we all know walz will not comply.
10% for someone?
It’s a party requirement it’s what keeps the machine alive.
This went on for quite a while, at apparently high levels, and involved a whole lotta peeps.
Mister Walz might claim that he knew nothing about it (just a guess), but might their have been major league "covering up" at some point?
Trying to recall, wasn't Nixon sent packing in disgrace less for the actual Watergate break-in but more for the coverup?
Details of the Somali $250 million fraud is a revealing
insight into the greed of these ingrates, given shelter here.
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land of the lakes is fully occupied country now that the somalis have planted their own flag over their conquest
ugh
Would that make it scrum-didly-umptious?
Suck on that Waltz !
MN taxpayers are paying for Walz to live in a 6 bedroom lakeside home for 18 months at $17K a month while a $6M renovation is done on the Governor’s mansion .
Gotta keep thos Somali overlords happy.
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