Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) was nearly elected to be the country’s next vice president. Lost in that is that his state has become the fraud capital of the United States.
Minnesota’s Department of Health and Human Services is moving to scrap the “Housing Stabilization Services” program, which is funded by Medicaid and the state’s taxpayers, due to widespread fraud. The initial annual cost of the program was expected to be $2.6 million, but it quickly jumped to $21 million. The cost rose every year, with last year costing $104 million and 2025 on pace to surpass $120 million.
It has been revealed that members of Minnesota’s Somali community were allegedly defrauding the program, enrolling people in nonexistent services through nonexistent companies. The acting U.S. attorney for the district of Minnesota said that six of the eight people charged so far were members of the state’s Somali community, and that this is just the first round of charges that his office is pursuing.
These charges came just before another Somali Minnesotan was charged in a $14 million fraud case involving federal funds for children with autism. It is alleged that she helped secure fake autism diagnoses for children to help parents enroll them in the program, with “kickback payments” ranging “from approximately $300 to $1500 per month, per child.”
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Meanwhile, on Thursday, a 77th person has been charged in “the largest Covid-19 fraud scheme in the country.” That would be the “Feeding Our Future” scandal, a $250 million fraud scheme where multiple people are accused of defrauding Federal Child Nutrition Program reimbursement funds by lying about feeding thousands of children daily during the pandemic. Federal prosecutors have brought charges for about half a billion dollars’ worth of fraud in Minnesota, and expect that number could jump past $1 billion. To top it all off, the investigation by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo into the scope of this fraud revealed that a chunk of this money is making its way back to Somalia, including into the hands of the terrorist group Al-Shabaab.
All of this has happened right under the nose of Walz as he ran around the country talking about how he could beat up conservatives and how he hoped that President Donald Trump would die. Under Walz, Minnesota has become synonymous with wide-scale fraud schemes, a fact that should hound him as he runs for reelection next year and remind voters how wise their decision was to reject the Democratic ticket last year.
