$1 billion of fraud under Tim Walz

Jay Kolls of KSTP-TV 5 has the scoop. In an interview that aired tonight (Tuesday), Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson tells KSTP:

that when current investigations are prosecuted and finished, the scope of fraud in Minnesota government programs could exceed $1 billion.

“It’s an extraordinary problem, the fraud that’s pervasive in this state,” said Thompson.

Although neither Kolls nor Thompson mentions our ScandalTracker work, they mention many of the specific items we’ve been tracking in a total already at nearly two-thirds of a billion dollars ($662 million).

A final accounting for just the Feeding Our Future, autism clinic, and Housing Stabilization Services scandals will each add over a hundred million dollars to the total, pushing the amount lost to fraud under Gov. Tim Walz (2019-present) over the $1 billion mark.

We also know that the Feds are actively investigating fraud within the adult day care state program.

When Thompson was asked by Kolls if things were getting better, Thompson replied, “I’m not prepared to say that, yet.”

Buckle up!