YazataDec 1, 2025 06:54 AM (This post was last modified: Dec 1, 2025 07:11 AM by Yazata.)
When the New York Times takes notice of scandal in a state led by a prominent democrat, you know that the brown anal extrusions have finally hit the fan!
This appears to have been one of the largest frauds in US history, currently at $1.2 billion and rising. Minnesota isn't the largest state, with a total 2025 social services budget of $16.8 billion (half the state's $32 billion in general fund spending), so $1.2 billion is big money in that context. (Minnesota prides itself on its Scandinavian style welfare state.)
What people are really talking about is that this extraordinarily large fraud was discovered by the Biden DOJ who investigated it and began a series of successful prosecutions. But does anyone remember Minnesota governor Tim Waltz being asked a single question about it during his Vice Presidential campaign? Did the establishment media ever report on it at all? The establishment journalists must have known about it by then.
Well, now that Tampon Tim lost the 2024 election and is politically expendable, the New York Times finally ran a big story on it.
The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness.
Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people with felonies, accusing them of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government program meant to keep children fed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
At first, many in the state saw the case as a one-off abuse during a health emergency. But as new schemes targeting the state’s generous safety net programs came to light, state and federal officials began to grapple with a jarring reality.
Over the last five years, law enforcement officials say, fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars’ worth of social services that were never provided.
Federal prosecutors say that 59 people have been convicted in those schemes so far, and that more than $1 billion in taxpayers’ money has been stolen in three plots they are investigating...
...Critics of the Walz administration say that the fraud persisted partly because state officials were fearful of alienating the Somali community in Minnesota...
...The first public sign of a major problem in the state’s social services system came in 2022, when federal prosecutors began charging defendants in connection to a program aimed at feeding hungry children. Merrick B. Garland, attorney general during the Biden administration, called it the country’s largest pandemic relief fraud scheme.
The prosecutors focused on a Minneapolis nonprofit organization called Feeding Our Future, which became a partner to dozens of local businesses that enrolled as feeding sites.
State agencies reimbursed the group and its partners for invoices claiming to have fed tens of thousands of children. In reality, federal prosecutors said, most of the meals were nonexistent, and business owners spent the funds on luxury cars, houses and even real estate projects abroad...
...Behind the scenes, as federal investigators sifted through bank records and interviewed witnesses, they said they realized that the meals fraud was not an isolated incident. In September, prosecutors charged nine people in two new plots tied to public funds meant for those in need.
In one case, hundreds of providers were reimbursed for assistance they claimed to have provided to people at risk for homelessness, though federal authorities said services weren’t provided.
The program’s annual cost ballooned to more than $104 million last year, the authorities said, from a budgeted projection of $2.6 million when it began in 2020. Two of eight people charged in the scenario have pleaded guilty; six others have pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial.
In another program, aimed to provide therapy for autistic children, prosecutors said providers recruited children in Minneapolis’s Somali community, falsely certifying them as qualifying for autism treatment and paying their parents kickbacks for their cooperation...
Ms. Hassan is of Somali ancestry, as are all but eight of the 86 people charged in the meals, housing and autism therapy fraud cases, according to prosecutors...
...Red flags in the meals program surfaced in the early months of the pandemic, but the money kept flowing.
In 2020, Minnesota Department of Education officials who administered the program became overwhelmed by the number of applicants seeking to register new feeding sites and began raising questions about the plausibility of some invoices.
Feeding Our Future, the nonprofit group that was the largest provider in the pandemic program, responded with a warning. In an email, the group told the state agency that failing to promptly approve new applicants from “minority-owned businesses” would result in a lawsuit featuring accusations of racism that would be “sprawled across the news.”...
...A report by Minnesota’s nonpartisan Office of the Legislative Auditor about the lapses that enabled the meals fraud later found that the threat of litigation and of negative press affected how state officials used their regulatory power...
...“There is a perception that forcefully tackling this issue might cause political backlash among the Somali community, which is a core voting bloc” for Democrats, said Mr. Magan, who is among the few prominent figures in the Somali community to speak about the fraud.
...Mr. Thompson, a career prosecutor who served as interim U.S. attorney for several months this year, and who declined to discuss his own political preferences, said he believed that race sensitivities had played a major role in the rise of fraud. As pandemic assistance was disbursed, the state was also reeling from the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020, he said.
“This was a huge part of the problem,” Mr. Thompson said during an interview in the summer. “Allegations of racism can be a reputation or career killer.”...
Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation by Tim Walz, certain DFL members and an indifferent mainstream media. It’s scary, isolating and left us wondering who we can turn to.
In addition to retaliating against whistleblowers, Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance...
...Agency leaders appointed by Tim Walz willfully disregarded rules and laws to keep fraud reports quiet - even to the extent of threatening families of whistleblowers...
Biased mainstream media such as WCCO and MPR showed absolutely no interest in covering fraud happening in our own state. Programs, especially in behavioral health and disability services were built without any guardrails against fraud, all in an attempt to extract more funding from legislature and the federal government.
As staff, we firsthand witnessed and observed fraud happening yet we were shutdown, reassigned and told to keep quiet. Sometimes more. Leadership did not want to appear to discriminate against certain communities and were unwilling to take action, such as stopping fraud, that would have an adverse impact on their image. To date, no single agency leader has been held responsible for their role in fraud...
It is a structure created and maintained by Tim Walz who has created an environment of inter-related agencies and institutions including the media - that help foster fraud through retaliation and turning a blind eye in exchange for political gain in the form of high power agency leadership jobs or other perks.
Fundamentally, Tim Walz is dishonest, lacks ethics and integrity, has poor leadership abilities, and has never taken any accountability for his role in fraud...
...Thank You NY Times for bringing the plight of Minnesota to the national stage.
C CDec 1, 2025 08:03 PM (This post was last modified: Dec 1, 2025 08:29 PM by C C.)
(Dec 1, 2025 06:54 AM)Yazata Wrote: [....] What people are really talking about is that this extraordinarily large fraud was discovered by the Biden DOJ who investigated it and began a series of successful prosecutions. But does anyone remember Minnesota governor Tim Waltz being asked a single question about it during his Vice Presidential campaign? Did the establishment media ever report on it at all? The establishment journalists must have known about it by then. Well, now that Tampon Tim lost the 2024 election and is politically expendable, the New York Times finally ran a big story on it. [...]
If Harris/Waltz had been elected, it would be the NY Post or Washington Examiner finally having to give it extensive coverage, with the establishment then reciprocally switching from light, "keep it in the shadow" reporting to aggressively dismissing it as crazy conspiracy mindset overblowing the matter (akin to the Hunter Biden controversy or something).
But, yeah, since among other offenses Kamala ruffled some feathers with her book 107 Days and the H/W duo turned-out to be a "loser stain" on Party reputation, Waltz can now be kicked outside the sheet-metal erected barrier and sacrificed to the zombie hordes.
VIDEO EXCERPTS: It [Minnesota] should be a wonderful place to live. [...] It should be a place where you work hard, pay your taxes, and don't have to worry that political correctness is keeping people from preventing mass fraud in, for example, the Somali community.
[...] If you haven't seen the story itself, the headline here is how fraud swamped Minnesota's social services system on Tim Walls's watch. We now know why it came out: Because the New York Times was trying to beat Chris Rufo and City Journal and the Manhattan Institute to publishing a story about all of this.
But Sean, something that strikes me is anybody who was following this story knew that there were massive allegations of fraud against the Somali community in Minnesota over the last couple of years. And everyone has known there are significant assimilation concerns.
Minnesota conservatives have been screaming like hell into the void about this for years, and only in 2025 is this suddenly a big issue because there's fraud. I mean, it does seem kind of crazy.
Yeah. The fraud is obviously a problem. It's been reported on a ton. Rufo, Walter Kirn and County Highway did good work. ... You know, I've got a very good friend born and raised in Minneapolis, built his business there, who ended up leaving because of the insanity that took over that city. They refer to Minneapolis as Little Mogadishu. That's a very normal thing to hear when you go there -- for years. For years.
The fraud is a symptom. The major problem here is you have an entire group of people who are incapable of being assimilated into America...
I, for one, applaud the brilliance of the Somali entrepreneurs who realized running a daycare for children is much more profitable without the daycare or the children
(Dec 30, 2025 09:31 AM)Yazata Wrote: The editor of the Babylon Bee says
I, for one, applaud the brilliance of the Somali entrepreneurs who realized running a daycare for children is much more profitable without the daycare or the children
(Dec 30, 2025 09:31 AM)Yazata Wrote: The editor of the Babylon Bee says
I, for one, applaud the brilliance of the Somali entrepreneurs who realized running a daycare for children is much more profitable without the daycare or the children
It must be brute force pirate mentality, as it's hard to imagine that much brilliance in a population with an average IQ of 68-84, due to inbreeding.
(Jan 5, 2026 10:01 PM)Syne Wrote: Tampon Tim is rage quitting... not running for reelection amid all the scandal in his state, just leave his mess for someone else to clean up.
I was just going to post this, but Syne beat me to it.
What an abject comedown for a guy who just a year ago was riding high as the Democratic party's national candidate for Vice President!
I guess that he saw the writing on the wall. Minnesota has a reputation as a bright blue state, but apart from the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, it's mostly red. And this Somali fraud scandal is doing Tim no good with his metropolitan base.
So he probably decided that his reelection was at risk, that he would have to campaign very hard to have any chance at all, and that he would be hit with the fraud scandal at every campaign appearance.
Well, he already had 2 terms, in a state where there's no term limit for governor. He was actually hoping to be the first to do three consecutive terms. LOL!
BREAKING: BOMBSHELL Minnesota auditor report just dropped and it confirms Tim Walz's Department of Human Services FABRICATED RECORDS and did not verify grant recipients, tried COVERING THEIR TRACKS, enabling massive fraud.
"Perhaps the most EXPLOSIVE revelation is that managers within DHS tried to cover their tracks by backdating and creating NEW DOCUMENTS."
"Sent millions of dollars out the door in grants without making proper checks into who was receiving them. And that is not even the most jaw-dropping finding!"
"One outrageous example, the auditors found a grantee that was paid $672,000 for one month of work WITHOUT ANY INFO on what they do!"
"And the audit says the grant manager who paid it then left DHS a couple days later and became a paid consultant for that company!"
"TO ME, THAT'S CRIMINAL."
"During the audit multiple DHS managers backdated or created new documents to try to cover their tracks."
WOW. THIS IS BAD.
It sounds like the Minnesota Department of Human Services was a bureaucratic disaster area. They didn't keep required documentation on the hundreds of millions of dollars that they shoveled out to politically connected grantees, then when the auditors showed up demanding to see the documentation, they created fake documents!
The acting Head of the Department of Human Services says she is shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to hear all this!
By all accounts the Federal Department of Justice is surging prosecutors into Minnesota as we speak. It remains to be seen whether anyone faces trial or goes to jail. But one thing is sure - despite the winter weather in Minnesota, things are getting hot in the Twin Cities!
And speculation is rife on the internet about whether Tim Walz resigns by the end of the week.
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