{"id":4192,"date":"2025-12-02T01:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2025-12-02T01:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:04:18","slug":"new-tim-walz-publicly-backstabbed-exposed-by-hundreds-of-his-own-state-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=4192","title":{"rendered":"NEW: Tim Walz Publicly Backstabbed, Exposed By Hundreds Of His Own State Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hundreds of fed-up employees inside the Minnesota Department of Human Services are publicly torching Gov. Tim Walz, accusing him of letting a \u201cmassive fraud\u201d operation mushroom on his watch and punishing the whistleblowers who tried to stop it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than $1 billion in taxpayer cash was siphoned off by scammers in the Feeding Our Future scheme, the biggest COVID-era fraud case in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response,\u201d the Minnesota DHS employees\u2019 X account, representing over 480 workers, wrote Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation,\u201d the group added. \u201cIt\u2019s scary, isolating and left us wondering who we can turn to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The outrage comes as the Justice Department just secured its 78th prosecution tied to the scam. At least 59 people have been convicted so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, fraudsters exploited Minnesota\u2019s sprawling social-services programs, setting up shell companies that billed the state for services prosecutors say never happened. Feeding Our Future, founded in 2016 and supposedly dedicated to feeding schoolchildren, teamed up with dozens of local outfits claiming to provide meals to tens of thousands of low-income kids. The nonprofit dissolved in 2022 as investigators revealed the cash was blown on luxury cars, foreign real estate, and other lavish purchases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other groups tied to Minnesota\u2019s safety-net programs were caught committing fraud as well. Prosecutors say many of the scams were driven by networks within the state\u2019s roughly 80,000-strong Somali\u00a0diaspora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs staff, we firsthand witnessed and observed fraud happening yet we were shutdown, reassigned and told to keep quiet,\u201d the DHS workers\u2019 account said. \u201cSometimes more. Leadership did not want to appear to discriminate against certain communities and were unwilling to take action, such as stopping fraud, that would have an adverse impact on their image.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal charges started rolling out in 2022. Once investigators dug into the paperwork, the scale of the corruption became clear. One homelessness program ballooned from $2.6 million in 2021 to $104 million last year \u2014 driven almost entirely by fraud, according to the New York Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMinnesota has become the land of 10,000 frauds under Tim Walz,\u201d House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told The Post. \u201cThis is a total slap in the face to the hardworking, law-abiding people of Minnesota. The Walz administration is either too incompetent or completely unwilling to clean up their own mess.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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