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The Minnesota Board of Pardons on June 10 pardoned a man convicted of raping a 10-year-old girl, according to a New York Times report. The three-person state board, which includes Gov. Tim Walz, pardoned Tou Lue Vang, from Laos, a week before he was set to be deported. Vang was convicted in 2005. Vang had pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual conduct in a plea deal that prevented him from serving prison time, the NYTimes reported. The pardon means that Vang can now fight the deportation. NEW: DHS is accusing MN Gov. Tim Walz of trying to shield a Laotian illegal...

U.S. District Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz threw out subpoenas against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other officials regarding immigration. “This course of events- in and of itself-establishes beyond reasonable dispute that the subpoenas were a part of a broader campaign to coerce state and local officials in Minnesota to assist the Trump administration in its enforcement of immigration laws,” wrote Schiltz. “And, of course, this campaign played out against the backdrop of the Trump administration’s well-established history of using criminal investigations to retaliate against and pressure the President’s political and personal adversaries.” President Donald Trump and his administration initiated...

A federal judge on Monday quashed grand jury subpoenas issued to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other Minnesota officials. US District Judge Patrick Schiltz, a George W. Bush appointee said the subpoenas were retaliatory. The Justice Department in January issued subpoenas to Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and other far-left Minnesota officials. The DOJ previously launched a criminal investigation into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and far-left Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for interfering with ICE operations. According to CBS News, the investigation centered around public statements made by Walz and Frey....

Over 7,700 suspected "ghost students" have now been flagged in the Minnesota public education system. This comes as the federal government is working to crack down on fraudsters and scammers across the nation. Scammers known as "ghost students" enroll in colleges, claim financial aid, then disappear with taxpayer funds, and the Minnesota State system, which has 33 colleges and universities, has now identified over 7,700 in the 2024-2025 school year in the public university system. The Minnesota education system was recently given $3 million to verify students as well as identify scammers. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon has previously...

Senior Minnesota state officials allegedly hired outside investigators to silence whistleblowers in an attempt to cover up widespread state social services fraud, a House committee report released Monday found. A 200-page staff report by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform found that Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s state administration intimidated and retaliated against state employees who raised concerns about fraud, soliciting private investigators to reveal employees’ personal details. The report, titled “The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Tim Walz and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota’s Fraud Explosion,” exposed that senior state officials, as high as allegedly Gov. Walz, were...

In the end, the most appalling thing about the ballooning US social-services fraud scandals is the eager collusion of state officials in robbing the public by the billions — with Minnesota the early prime example. Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday asked the Justice Department to investigate and perhaps prosecute Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and other high officials over the evidence laid out in a devastating House Oversight Committee report on benefit fraud in Minnesota. The committee documented how more than 30 whistleblowers tried to sound the alarm on fraud, only to be silenced by the Democrats...

🚨🚨 Today - 15 individuals have been indicted for over $90 million in an alleged massive healthcare fraud scheme in Minnesota, after a sweeping FBI investigation with @TheJusticeDept and our Interagency Partners. These charges involve the two LARGEST Medicaid fraud cases ever charged in this district and first-of-their kind charges involving 7 additional Medicaid programs. As alleged, the defendants defrauded Minnesota public healthcare resources for tens of millions, targeting programs such as Housing Stabilization Services, Child Care, Medicaid programs, Individualized Home Supports (IHS), and more. In one case, defendants even developed a scheme worth over $40 million to target the...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tore into President Donald Trump in Spain on Saturday, calling him "trigger-happy," adding that he has "no exit plan" for the Iran War. "We've got a feeble-minded, trigger-happy president who plunged us into a war where no threat was present, with no clear objectives and no exit plan. We need to call that what it is. That's fascism. Or at least it's fascist curious as they would be," Walz said at the Global Progressive Mobilization event in Barcelona. ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced Friday that its National Fraud Enforcement Division (NFED) thwarted fraud schemes targeting $340 million in taxpayer funds in its first week on the job — with more than $10 million paid back in restitution. The NFED’s first big win was the sentencing of Abdullahe Nur Jesow April 9 to three years and seven months in prison for his role in bilking taxpayers out of $250 million meant for a child nutrition program that operated out of a bogus headquarters in Minneapolis during the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds weren’t spent by the co-conspirators —...

After moving out of nearly a million square feet of office space in downtown Minneapolis’ City Center building five years ago, Target paid almost $110 million last month to officially break its lease that ran through 2031. Now the owner of the 51-story tower at 33 S. 6th St. — an entity tied to South Korean conglomerate Samsung — is preparing to list the property for sale, according to a Feb. 2 loan servicer report.

BREAKING: Transgender Minnesota State Rep. Leigh Finke (D) says that queer kids need access to porn websites for “educational” purposes. He is arguing that Age verification is oppression because some kids need porn content for "education."

Minnesota is in the midst of what state health officials call the nation's "largest known outbreak" of TMVII, a sexually transmitted fungal skin infection that can cause severe ringworm. TMVII, or trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII, is the only known fungal-based sexually transmitted disease, according to the Minnesota Department of Health, and it's treatable with oral antifungals. The first case was reported in New York City in 2024, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with Minnesota's first reported case in July 2025, when a patient sought treatment for a genital rash. The health department says there are now...

Agitators swarm Minnesota capitol and chant outside Tim Walz’s office Dozens gathered inside the Capitol building, shouting anti-ICE slogans and demanding accountability as they marched toward the governor’s doors. Dozens of agitators packed the Minnesota Capitol on Tuesday, their chants echoing through the halls as tension over federal immigration enforcement boiled into a standoff just feet from Gov. Tim Walz’s office. The protest comes amid a broader wave of demonstrations following recent fatal encounters involving federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, with activists calling for accountability and changes to enforcement policies. On Tuesday afternoon, around 200 agitators gathered outside Walz’s office...

Oh, Look! Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz welcomed high school students to the State Capitol building for a "walk out" in protest of ICE operations in the state - quickly devolves into an all-out brawl!

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has authorized the state’s National Guard to help support local law enforcement as tensions have risen in Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of Renee Good.The National Guard will help protect critical infrastructure and maintain public safety, a news release from Walzs’ office said.“Yesterday, I directed the National Guard to be ready should they be needed,” Walz said in a statement. “They remain ready in the event they are needed to help keep the peace, ensure public safety, and allow for peaceful demonstrations.”He also thanked Minnesotans as they have “met this moment,” adding “we have every reason...

"I'm not going anywhere. You can make all your requests for me to resign — over my dead body will that happen! ...and the question they need to ask is, when does the guy in the White House resign?" Video at link (just hit the X to close the log in box if it pops up - you don't have to have a FB account to view it - it is a public video).

GOV. WALZ: "This is a concerted effort to try and destroy the president's opponents — to destroy the rule of law." Video at link (just hit the X to close the log in box if it pops up - you don't have to have a FB account to view it - it is a public video).

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz abruptly dropped his bid for a third term on Monday, amid a growing fraud scandal in which allegedly billions of taxpayer dollars were swindled on his watch. Democrat Walz, former Vice President Kamala Harris’ veep pick in 2024, had launched his campaign for a third term back in September. No Minnesota governor has been elected three times since the term of office was doubled to four years in the 1960s. “In September, I announced that I would run for a historic third term as Minnesota’s Governor. And I have every confidence that, if I gave it...

The ongoing Somali fraud scandal has brought an end to Governor Tim Walz’s political career in Minnesota. He announced this morning that he will not seek a third term. Here is Walz’s full statement via KTTC: In September, I announced that I would run for a historic third term as Minnesota’s Governor. And I have every confidence that, if I gave it my all, I would succeed in that effort. But as I reflected on this moment with my family and my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion that I can’t give a political campaign my all....