Eric Eggers of the Government Accountability Institute says Minnesota is facing “massive” welfare fraud involving phony daycare operations, food banks, and autism services that he said have siphoned billions in federal funds courtesy of the American taxpayer.
Eggers says the schemes were enabled by what they described as lax Biden administration policies and said there were suspicions of kickbacks benefiting Minnesota Democrats, including Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, tied to the Somali community.
“There are as many as 125 million meals that they pretended existed,” Eggers said. “And then just kind of, like, went away. Minnesota, unlike Ohio, has a far more permissive qualification system. Basically, it’s an honor system. It’s self-attestation. But it was aided and abetted by a very compliant Biden administration. The person who was in charge of Medicaid at the end of the Biden era wrote a letter to the state saying, ‘Hey, we don’t care if you suspect fraud is happening.'”
Eggers continued: “Kickbacks were a part of this business model — at least the feeding programs. And that’s just one element of it. I would just say this: Tim Walz resigned, and that’s been the latest news to kind of further this story. But I would say the fraud, in my opinion, doesn’t just exist solely within the welfare programs.”
The discussion also linked the alleged fraud to voter integrity concerns, citing Minnesota’s same-day registration and vouching systems and asserting they could allow non-citizens to vote.
“Minnesota has historically and famously one of the more lenient forms of voting,” Eggers said. “In fact, if you remember when Al Franken was elected to the Senate, it was a recount and ended up being settled over about 300 ballots. And it was later reported that there was significant issues about the mishandling of ballots. He found them in trunks at a number well above the margin.”
Eggers added: “So many people believe that Al Franken, who, by the way, was the deciding vote in the Obamacare vote, was elected because of voter fraud. But Minnesota has something known as vouching. So, you don’t have to have ID, you don’t have to have proof of residency. But if you have someone else who is a registered voter who says, I vouch for that person, they can vouch for up to eight different voters.”
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