Posted on 12/18/2025 3:58:18 PM PST by Red Badger
The fraud in Minnesota's welfare system is so astronomical that, after years of looking, they are still tallying up the damages.
But the number runs upwards of $10 billion, and counting. To put that in perspective, that is the yearly GDP of Somalia, to pick a country at random.
I would say "unbelievable," but this is Walz's Minnesota.
US Attorney’s Office: ‘Half or more’ of $18B billed through state programs tied to fraud https://t.co/ZQhtLwcoCF— David Strom (@DavidStrom) December 18, 2025
“The magnitude of fraud in Minnesota cannot be overstated." Gee, I wonder why.
As the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced a new batch of charges related to suspected fraudulent billing in Minnesota’s government services, officials painted a dire portrait of just how extensive the problem might be.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson on Thursday said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pulled claims for 14 programs identified by Minnesota officials as being particularly vulnerable to fraud and found $18 billion in Medicaid billing since 2018.
While not all of those payments were illegitimate, Thompson estimated “half or more” of the $18 billion was received through fraudulent means, though he said prosecutors are still working to find the exact number.
“The magnitude of fraud in Minnesota cannot be overstated. It’s staggering amounts of money that’s been lost,” Thompson said.
I'm certain that it is a coincidence, but 2018 was the year that Tim Walz was elected. Not that fraud in Minnesota began in 2018, but it certainly has been going strong as one of our larger industries since he entered office.
Lest you think that half of all Medicaid payments being fraudulent is the extent of the fraud, that is hardly the case. That's just Medicaid. There are plenty more welfare programs that have been plundered, and you will recall that this saga all started with the Feeding Our Future scandal in which hundreds of millions of dollars were stolen in a massive cash grab over a couple of years, and before that a widely ignored but 9-figure daycare fraud scandal that mostly got swept under the rug.
HALF or more of all Medicaid billing was fraudulent. Let that sink in. Mull on it. Let it roll around in your brain.
It boggles the mind, even though none of us should really be shocked by now. Almost every program that funnels money to people who actually are deserving is used to funnel money by the truckload to scammers. The people we are trying to help are held up as the excuse for spending the money, but the real intent behind the programs is to steal the taxpayers blind.
Poor people in need of help are like the starving children you see on TV—props. "Send us money!" And sure, some goes to a good cause, but that is just the cost of doing business. And the real business is stealing.
Now ask yourself: Is it humanly possible for this scale of fraud to go unnoticed by the people charged with running these programs? After all, their sole job is to run the programs. It's not like it's a distraction from their daily jobs. It IS their job to keep track of all this.
Look, you can't run a program with zero fraud for many reasons, just as you can't run a grocery store without wastage. You run into questions of whether the juice of preventing some level of fraud is worth the squeeze of the effort and money you spend to root it out.
Assume 5% or so is a reasonable trade-off, or pick your number. It certainly isn't 50%! You might as well not have that expensive bureaucracy in the first place.
Except the bureaucracy is part of the point, isn't it? More public employees, pensions, Democrat voters... And the money shoveled out the door goes to favored constituencies, which means more outside supporters, campaign workers, Democrat voters...
I know it is hard for my good liberal friends to grasp, but a vast percentage of government spending has nothing to do with providing public services. Public services are the side gig for a corrupt political system that spreads tax dollars around for a political machine, enriching favored people.
I would compare the Walz administration to the Mafia, but to be fair, the Mafia was far less greedy. At least if you paid protection money, nobody would dare steal from you or vandalize your store. Here in Minnesota, you pay your protection money, it goes to various groups and individuals, and they also rob and vandalize your store.
Now, think on this: Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz over everybody else to be her Vice President. Do you believe that the background check completely missed this? If so, what does that say? If not, what does THAT say? Joe Biden-level corruption looks small in retrospect, doesn't it?
Walz would have sold half the country before he left office.
But Walz didn’t know nothin’ about it.
We have to stop spending money all together for welfare. It’s rampant with fraud.
Obviously the systems are ran by grifters. Just rubber stamping applicants without doing diligence.
Failure all around.
Yet Republicans DO NOTHING as usual.
At what point does 51% of the whole program consist of fraud?
and Haitians in Boston cashing in on SNAP , they’re doing it everywhere
When the government is so corrupt that they don’t give a damn.............
The majority of Immigrants (legal and illegal), IMO, look at the USA as a naive child, ripe for the plucking, and for the most part, are correct.
As long as we keep paying taxes, why would anything change?
Not a single person will be held accountable for this massive theft/fraud.
Here’s how the SNAP/Food Stamp program fraud works:
1. Open a store. They opened up mini-stores all around Boston, some were no more than sheds and shelves with electricity.
2. Apply for a government license to accept EBT/SNAP/Food Stamps at your ‘stores’. As long as you sell some foods, it doesn’t matter what else you sell, beer, liquor, tobacco products, vapes and junk foods.
3. Spread the word that your stores will give a cash back discounted of course, say 50 cents on the dollar.
4. Don’t keep any records of what is ‘sold’. A quart of milk and a quart of beer are the same thing.
5. Use fraudulent food donations, like MREs, from legitimate charities that are supposed to go overseas to starving children, and sell them for $8 each.
Damn it what the hell is Blondi doing..about anything?
If you make the fraud big enough... It’s too much to count and then it makes it tougher to prosecute... These criminals are smarter than they look.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson on Thursday said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pulled claims for 14 programs identified by Minnesota officials as being particularly vulnerable to fraud and found $18 billion in Medicaid billing since 2018.
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Any wonder why they’re pushing so hard for the obama care extension
Any wonder why we’re 39 trillion dollars in debt?..........
I believe Trump wants to make an example of what happens when fraud takes taxpayer’s money as happened(happening) in Minnesota. I think this will be a target for the DOJ at Trump’s direction. Don’t doubt for a moment that Tim Waltz will not be indicted. I think this is going to massive.
Nine billion here, ten billion there. Eventually, it adds up to real money. < /sarc >
This goes a long way toward explaining why we have a $36 trillion national debt.
It may seem like a question with an obvious answer, but to whom did the money flow, and to what purpose. If there was a purpose besides just to fill the pockets of hordes of greedy grifters, then there was a plan with an organizational structure. That implies a criminal enterprise which falls under RICO statutes. And, who is at the top of that enterprise?
The problem was democrats covered for the people doing the fraud for two reasons - first they didn't want to be called racist - and second they wanted the Somali vote... ugly corrupt cowardly democrats WERE THE PROBLEM.
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