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Despite this week’s well-timed ICE distraction, the fraud issue isn’t going away. ...

Yesterday, Vice President JD Vance announced the creation of a new DOJ position to investigate welfare fraud across America. Vance said the new assistant attorney general —selected but not yet named— will initially focus on the rampant fraud in Minnesota, but that it will ultimately be a “nationwide effort, because unfortunately, the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way.”

Vance also said Minnesota Governor Tim Walz “has enabled fraud, and maybe, in fact, has participated in fraud,” and explicitly called for his resignation. I’m not predicting anything, but if they charge a sitting governor with something, that would probably grab the news cycle right back. Just saying. ...

But VP Vance also linked the job to pursuing people who “are defrauding the United States by inciting violence against our law enforcement officers,” suggesting the role’s scope goes well beyond benefit fraud— including potentially NGOs funding protests and public‑order-slash-insurrection terrain.

On Tuesday, the Trump administration froze over $10 billion in federal child care, family assistance, and social services funds for five blue states —California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York— amid concerns over widespread fraud and misuse. The governors of those states called the moves “politically motivated” and meant to harm vulnerable, well-meaning, low-income families who are just trying to get rich the Somalian way.

This story isn’t going away, no matter how hard they try to distract everyone.

Washington State: Somali DayCare Centers Receive $2,600 Per Month For Each Ghost Child

Democrats Partner With Somalis To Defraud Taxpayers

Since 2009 investigators working for the State of Minnesota have known about that Somalis were committing welfare fraud. Since 2011 information about the day care fraud were surfacing. Democrats who run the state shut down the investigations. Tim Walz was well aware of this massive fraud network before he became governor in 2019 and allowed it to continue. In the meantime, the 30,000 Somalis living in the State of Washington were setting up 539 licensed day care centers with ghost children in the Greater Seattle Area.

Washington State: Somali DayCare Centers Receive $2,600 Per Month For Each Ghost Child

The Minnesota child care fraud saga is so strange because years ago it was fully investigated, documented, and reported on by a team of state investigators set up to catch and stop child care fraud.

They spent years gathering evidence including many hours of surveillance footage. In 2018 they compiled a detailed report and delivered it to their boss, the DHS Inspector General.

Directly from the report: "Investigators, as well as the Supervisor and Manager of this unit believe that the overall fraud rate in this program is at least 50% of the $217M paid to child care centers in CY2017."

What did the Inspector General do with this information? She refused to meet with her own team, refused to discuss the findings of the report, and then spent $90,000 of taxpayer money to have an outside company write a report saying the fraud isn't quite as bad as her own team of investigators was claiming.

Here's an email summarizing the fraud that the lead investigator sent the IG in 2018. Those currently in the MSM claiming that child care fraud isn't a serious problem should read this.

The real question is how highly paid state investigators spent years investigating child care fraud in MN, reported on said fraud, and eight years later not only was the fraud not stopped, it was bigger than ever.