{"id":1753,"date":"2026-06-11T08:36:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2026-06-11T08:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:36:42","slug":"dozens-of-whistleblowers-sounded-the-alarm-on-minnesota-fraud-and-tim-walzs-team-silenced-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1753","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of whistleblowers sounded the alarm on Minnesota fraud \u2014 and Tim Walz’s team silenced them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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 \u2014 with Minnesota the early prime example.<\/p>\n

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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\u00a0House Oversight Committee\u00a0report on benefit fraud in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

The committee how more than 30 whistleblowers tried to sound the alarm on fraud, only to be silenced by the Democrats running the state \u2014 e.g., with explicit orders to \u201cstop looking into\u201d obvious fraud because the folks in charge feared being labeled \u201cracist or Islamophobic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worse, the state Department of Human Services actually investigated state workers who called out <\/em>the fraud \u2014 tracking their phones, photographed their cars and even collected personal info such as their children\u2019s schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A worker who emailed that she knew of noncompliant contracts approved by management that put \u201cDHS funds at risk\u201d\u00a0found herself labeled \u201cdisruptive\u201d and put on investigative leave.<\/p>\n

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Hotlines and other ways of supposedly reporting fraud anonymously turned out not to be, as workers\u2019 confidential reports wound up being cited by HR as cause for discipline.<\/p>\n

Walz and Ellison claim they had no idea any of this was going on \u2014 not the fraud, not the refusal to investigate it, nor the crackdowns on state workers who exposed it.<\/p>\n

But the 205-page House report says otherwise, for example detailing Walz\u2019s refusal to act on erupting fraud issues and even ordering investigators to stop looking into Child-Care Assistance Program fraud.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That fraudsters stole billions in taxpayer money in just this one state is outrageous \u2014 but that the officials elected to protect the public sided with the fraudsters <\/em>is just obscene.<\/p>\n

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The state Department of Human Services actually investigated state workers who called out the fraud \u2014 tracking their phones, photographed their cars and even collected personal info such as their children\u2019s schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"\nDozens of whistleblowers sounded the alarm on Minnesota fraud \u2014 and Tim Walz's team silenced them - Metro Transit Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1753\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dozens of whistleblowers sounded the alarm on Minnesota fraud \u2014 and Tim Walz's team silenced them - 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