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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).

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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.

The cash moved overseas in luggage by Somali couriers from the Minneapolis airport was 10 to 100 times larger than the total foreign exodus of money at other larger American airports the last two years, officials tell Just the News.

Homeland Security Department officials said the statistics they have gathered in recent weeks show the movement of cash out of Minnesota was substantially abnormal and should have raised red flags during the Biden administration, long before the Trump administration began investigating it as part of a major fraud scheme that stole billions from taxpayers in the state.

Just the News reported Tuesday that the Transportation Security Administration detected and flagged nearly $700 million in cash moved in luggage out of the Minneapolis airport by Somali couriers in 2024 and 2025 alone, a stunning total that averaged nearly $1 million a day. ...

Similarly, in 2024, the total currency discovered over $10,000 traveling internationally out of Atlanta and JFK was less than 1% of the currency discovered at Minneapolis.