Gov. Tim Walz announced today, Governor Walz Orders Third-Party Audit of Medicaid Billing at DHS:Governor orders pause on all payments for 14 DHS Medicaid services until audit is complete. The…
Anwar Ahmed Adow, age 25, became the first defendant to plead guilty in the Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) fraud case.
Yesterday, former Legislative Auditor Jim Nobles published a commentary in the Minnesota Star Tribune under the headline, Former legislative auditor: Is the Walz administration finally awake about fraud? The recent…
Former Acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson sat down with KSTP-5 for another interview, this time as part of their What the Fraud? series. A four-minute excerpt: Thompson again emphasizes that…
Republicans and Democrats point to health care as the major sticking point in the current government shutdown. Republicans contend that the democrats are shutting down government to pay for illegal…
Jose Alberto Arroyo-Sotelo is our Minnesota Man of the Day. Dramatic scenes played out up in Fridley and Brooklyn Park earlier this month, when Arroyo was taken into custody by…
If someone is ineligible because they live in another state, are on another program, or are dead, the taxpayers should stop paying the insurance companies for their care.
Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast! This week, Grace and Kathryn break down the latest out of Minnesota: First, a new DHS study reveals that half of Minnesota’s immigrants…
Massive taxpayer subsidies are paid out to nonprofits for “free” lawyers for illegal aliens. The Minnesota Star Tribune reports, ‘Up to our eyeballs’: Immigration lawyers struggle to keep up during…
Author, journalist, gubernatorial candidate, and California resident Michael Shellenberger has been a fearless voice exposing the policy mistakes made in the Golden State regarding crime, homelessness, environmental alarmism, and leadership.…
There’s a new, disturbing epidemic sweeping through Minnesota. It has shown up on the government radar, infecting state agency social benefit programs and siphoning taxpayer money by the millions: fraud.…
But how much? Estimates range above $6 billion (with a “b”) just for the state Dept. of Human Services (DHS). “Health and human services” outpaces the general category of “education”…
Today’s fraud involves a program called “Integrated Community Supports” (ICS). For the record, is it, Do you really need to hear anything else? So, what is ICS? From DHS: Services…
Today’s (alleged) fraud comes to us courtesy of investigative reporter A.J. Lagoe and the KARE-11 team. They report, TikTok video alleges Medicaid billing fraud. The details, A Minnesota company is…
“Minnesota officials alerted to housing fraud two years before indictment,” reads the headline this morning in the Minnesota Star Tribune. The “housing fraud” refers to the state Medicaid program Housing…
“I have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor and the depth of the fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away” Thompson said.
Joe Thompson, the Acting U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, announced eight (8) criminal charges in the massive fraud involving the state’s Housing Stabilization Services program (HSS). Over the past 4 1/2…
Eric Grumdahl, Assistant Commissioner of the state Department of Human Services (DHS) became the first bureaucrat in the seven-year tenure of Gov. Tim Walz to be held accountable for the…
KARE-11 TV is out with a report: KARE 11 Investigates: Ethics questions emerge over Sen. Fateh’s housing bill and wife’s company ties. Sen. Omar Fateh (DFL-Minneapolis) is by some accounts…
Alpha News reports: Minnesota DHS takes a step to improve background checks. It’s about time. The requirement will also apply to contractors, interns, volunteers, and existing employees with Criminal Justice…
The fraud-ridden Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) program at the state Dept. of Human Services (DHS) was shut down late last month and payments to all program providers were stopped. When…
When the Walz administration allowed illegal aliens into the Minnesota taxpayer-supported healthcare system, a bulletin was provided by the Minnesota Department of Human Services that basically provided a roadmap for…
Joe Thompson gets results. The acting United States Attorney for Minnesota launched an investigation into the fraud-riddled Medicaid program Housing Stabilization Services (HSS). Don’t be confused. HSS doesn’t provide actual…
There should be far less of it. Ideally, the amount of fraud perpetrated against state and federal welfare programs should be zero. That’s my controversial opinion. Someone else who doesn’t…