NEWS HEADLINES: Walz Accused of Threatening Whistleblowers Who Reported Minnesota Fraud * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Kaley

Walz Accused of Threatening Whistleblowers Who Reported Minnesota Fraud * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Kaley

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The Minnesota Somalian fraud scandal just got even worse.

Hundreds of social services workers are pinning the blame personally on Gov. Tim Walz, whom they say ignored their warnings about the fraud happening under his watch.

Not only that, but they are also accusing Gov. Walz of doing everything in his power to try to silence the whistleblowers who tried to expose the fraud.

An X account that claims to be associated with the Minnesota Department of Human Services posted this lengthy statement in response to a NYT story about the widespread fraud:

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 whistleblower, Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance. Media and politicians supporting Tim Walz or the DFL-agenda attacked whistleblowers who were trying to raise red flags on fraudulent activities.

This is a cascade of systemic failures leading up to Tim Walz. 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. These same leaders are not qualified for their jobs, instead getting leadership jobs via Tim Walz’s friendship so state government were left floundering. DFL lawmakers refused to acknowledge fraud and deflected any serious conversation to stop fraud. 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 whether it’s Shireen Gandhi, Jess Geil, Jodi Harpstead, Natasha Merz, Eric Grumdahl or others.

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. Instead, Tim Walz deflects by blaming national politics for his own failings and distracts the public with inveterate lying. These lies include his reference of a budget surplus under his tenure. Fact is, Minnesota never had a surplus, we had been given federal ARPA funds that were conflated as surplus money otherwise, we’d be in a deficit. And those ARPA funds, which were meant to be temporary funds were used to create more leadership positions for Tim Walz “buddies.”

As such, we can’t fight fraud in Minnesota alone hence why we’re appealing to the federal levels of government. We need all the help we can get as Tim Walz’s agency leaders have upped their brazen approach in covering up their knowledge of fraud.

We are grateful to numerous solid politicians (esp the Fraud Committee) and media outlets who are trying to halt fraud. We are also grateful to other whistleblowers who are bravely stepping up.

Thank You NY Times for bringing the plight of Minnesota to the national stage.

@nytimes

This NewsNation clip dove deeper into the accusations against Tim Walz:

Backup here, if needed:

TIM WALZ EXPOSED: Walz has reportedly THREATENED and INTIMIDATED Minnesota whistleblowers on rampant Somalian fraud.

This has become out-of-control.

Walz is the most problematic governor in the country! https://x.com/i/status/1995751458495758517/video/1

“Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports.”

This is absolutely wild and unacceptable.

Due to these accusations, Walz is now being investigated by the House Oversight Committee and Treasury Department.

The New York Post has more details on the investigation:

A powerful US House committee and the Treasury Department both launched investigations into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s role in a “massive fraud” scheme that involved Somali immigrants bilking more than $1 billion from taxpayers, they revealed Monday.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told The Post that his panel “will conduct a thorough investigation into Governor Walz’s failure to safeguard taxpayer dollars” as a result.

“Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was warned about massive fraud in a pandemic food-aid program for children, yet he failed to act. Instead, whistleblowers who raised concerns faced retaliation,” Comer said.

“Because of Governor Walz’s negligence, criminals — including Somali terrorists — stole nearly $1 billion from the program while children suffered.”

As chairman of the powerful GOP-led panel, Comer can issue subpoenas and refer alleged crimes to the Department of Justice for potential criminal prosecution.

The DOJ has already convicted 59 fraudsters in the scheme.

Also on Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent posted on X that he had instructed his investigators to dig into how “the feckless mismanagement of the Biden Administration and Governor Tim Walz” allowed tax dollars to be funneled to al-Shabab terrorists.

The revelations about the scale of the $1 billion fraud for a COVID-era food relief program are new — as is the claim that some of the money flowed back to the Somali terrorist organization.

But House Republicans have been looking at Walz and Minnesota over its leaky aid programs for months.

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Last year, Republicans on the House Education and Workforce Committee issued a subpoena to Walz for records, though it’s unclear what information — if any — his office provided. A rep for that panel didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The House Oversight probe comes following prosecutions of 78 scammers, often from Somalia, who took Minnesota taxpayers’ money as part of what the feds have called the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal.

The ploy, according to prosecutors, involved funneling money from state social services coffers — including at the Department of Human Services and Department of Education — to the nonprofit Feeding Our Future and other organizations to ostensibly feed school children.

Instead, the “depraved and brazen” plot used the funds to splurge on the lavish lifestyles of the nonprofit’s workers — including brand new fancy cars and real estate holdings as far away as Turkey and Kenya — between April 2020 and January 2022, prosecutors said.

The FBI raided the fake nonprofit that same month and it later dissolved. Many of the reimbursement claims from the organizations were sent to state departments and then on to federal agencies such as the USDA.

We are so blessed that this man did not wind up as Vice President of the United States.

Can you imagine?

Instead, Tim Walz is now facing a very real possibility of going to jail.

What do you think?

Should Walz go to prison for his alleged role in the Minnesota Somalian fraud scheme?

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

View the original article here.





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