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One must remember that to the third worlder, “fraud” is not a thing. There is only money and ways to get money. The idea of a communal safety net to be used in good faith but not abused for personal gain is not a part of their worldview. One of many reasons they have to go back.

About 8 years ago we looked into opening a childcare center. We sourced a location. We spoke repeatedly to the state licensing folks. We did all the math. It came down to being over regulated. You had to track the food, the number of toilets, the handwashing stations, the feet from the door to the nearest pot shop, the staff training. It was overwhelming and not worth it frankly. The fire mitigation plan alone was outrageous. We gave up after a year.

What I’ve learned now is that I am a damned fool. An idiot. I was supposed to know it was all a song and a dance government joke. Just DO FRAUD guys! I spent all that time trying to figure out if I could possibly be compliant enough when I just needed an address and zero ethics!! I’m not being flippant. I’m being serious. I am dumb. If I had an IQ of 69 and no scruples I’d be rich and town would have a licensed center at the island next door.

I am irrationally mad that I spent that much time trying to comply with a farce and then gave up because of what felt like insurmountable regulations.

This cursed image is high art.

Everything is stolen down to the counterfeit Supreme phone case made in China, stolen from a brand who's entire style is corporate theft of an artist. Everything appropriated. Derivative theft five times removed made in China and sold back to us.

Generations of grift and slopification, a whole lineage of fake. The Somali gets a million dollars to live your American Dream while you wake up and go to a job you hate.

The laminated educational posters on the wall. It says spring from how many springs ago? The neglect. The entropy. The aesthetic of government work and decay in cheerful fonts.

The shock and anger on the Somali's face. The hijab and the fleece. The dissonance of a daycare meant for nurturing and the reality of the fraud and extraction.

She has her phone in her hand recording him in a surveillance Mexican standoff. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy. Baudrillard's simulacra.

Warhol said everybody would be famous for 15 minutes but he didn't realize it would be for getting caught. This is American mode collapse. Everything is garbled. The functions have failed in ways we couldn't predict.

Supreme. Hello Spring. Learn to Grow.

It recursively makes you angrier the more you look at it until you start laughing at the sheer absurdity of whatever it is we've built here.

If you think daycare with no kids is bad wait til you see how much money we waste on trying to educate nıgger kids in public schools.

In 2018 Minnesota child care fraud investigators noted that often times when a business is forced to closed after fraud has been proven, within weeks a new one opens in the same location (usually owned by the same person).

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2008647566045356488

In 2018 Minnesota child care fraud investigators noted that often times when a business is forced to closed after fraud has been proven, within weeks a new one opens in the same location (usually owned by the same person).

Minnesota’s fraud story saw two big developments yesterday. First, there was a massive ICE surge into the state’s capital, Minneapolis. A surge of two thousand federal agents. It’s arguable whether it set the Guinness record, but it was still historic.

DHS deploys 2,000 federal agents to Minneapolis area to carry out 'largest immigration operation ever'
The Trump administration has launched its largest immigration enforcement operation,
deploying up to 2,000 federal agents to the Minneapolis area.

Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said DHS had surged law enforcement resources to the state— and had already arrested over 1,000 people it described as killers, rapists, pedophiles, and gang members. This is inarguably the Trump Administration’s largest single-city immigration action— and all for Tim Walz’s hometown.

Next, CBS —the new CBS!— ran an even more momentous story yesterday headlined, “Audit of Minnesota DHS grant programs finds “widespread failures in oversight.” This new fraud audit —which the state failed, of course— was categorically different from previous audits. This one wasn’t looking at provider fraud. The investigation, conducted by the Financial Audit Division, was looking at oversight failure in one (big) state welfare agency: the Behavioral Health Administration. In other words, it looked at how the state had failed to stop the fraud for so long. ...

“BHA failed to verify that grantees were providing the services they were paid for, failed to put basic financial controls in place, and then created documentation after the fact to mislead auditors.”

“During the course of our audit,” the auditors wrote in a cover letter to lawmakers, “we identified a number of documents that BHA either backdated or created after our audit began.” In other words, it was comprehensive, across-the-board negligence combined with active efforts to cover it up. Fraud among those tasked with stopping fraud.

Don’t pass too quickly by the discovery of backdated documents. The fact that auditors found any backdated documents raises the natural question of how many they didn’t find. In other words, once we’ve established that staff is willing to fabricate documentation, then who knows how much fake paperwork is in the file? Some documents, like a site visit log form, would be devilishly hard to verify outside the file.

The auditors anonymously surveyed rank-and-file BHA staff. Many (13%) reported they had been asked to do something they believed was unethical, and for others (11%), something contrary to law or regulations. “Most of those employees responded that BHA leadership had made these requests,” the report noted. ...

In one exemplary case, a grantee received an unusually large single monthly payment of $672,647.78; the grantee and its subcontractors could not provide adequate documentary support. “We questioned whether the grantee actually provided the grant‑related services,” the auditors said. Then they dropped the bomb: the BHA employee who approved that unsually large payment “left DHS a few days after approving it and later started to provide consulting services to the grantee.”

Gee, I wonder what happened there?

Here’s the thing. Unlike previous audits that uncovered fraudsters, this one proves that citizens can’t trust the government workers who administer the welfare programs, which is an entirely different and even bigger problem. In other words —try to follow me here, Portlanders— we can pass all the paperwork requirements that we want, to try to stop fraud, but if the department heads force grant workers to ignore the rules, and if grant administrators work with the fraudsters, there’s no use.

It simply doesn’t matter how many rules there are, if the government workers in charge of enforcing the rules are crooked (or stupid).

A ringleader of the $250 million Minnesota welfare fraud scandal has been ordered to forfeit her Porsche, diamond jewelry, Louis Vuitton bags and millions of dollars in bank accounts.

An order from a judge just before New Year's Eve was the latest ignominy for Aimee Bock, 44, who prosecutors declared was behind one of the biggest fraud schemes of the pandemic era.

The vast majority of the more than 57 people so far convicted in the case are part of Minnesota's Somali community - Bock is not - and the case has exploded onto the national stage.

On Monday, Minnesota governor Tim Walz announced he would not run for a third term after it happened 'on my watch' and admitted 'the buck does stop with me.'

In a preliminary court order, reviewed by the Daily Mail, Bock was ordered to forfeit $3,506,066 seized from a Bank of America account in the name of her nonprofit Feeding Our Future, along with $179,455 in a personal account.

She was also ordered to give up her Porsche Panamera, around 60 laptops, iPads and iPhones found at three addresses, along with a diamond necklace, bracelet, earrings and her Louis Vuitton purse and backpack.

Bock was found guilty in March after a six-week trial on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bribery, and conspiracy to commit federal program bribery.

She is being held in Sherburne County Jail in Minnesota, awaiting sentence.