You know how the Somali childcare fraud has been a big thing, kind of an open secret in Minnesota for years now?
Well, not only has this been happening for at least a decade, but, according to this report, the state has known about it for at least that long.
Check out these receipts from Maze on X detailing a nine-year-old investigation into the fraud at Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program -- an investigation that went nowhere.
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.
Woke is a heckuva drug, isn't it?
So is corruption, scamming, and Democratic politics in general.
Here's part of the email to the inspector general with the results of the investigation, detailing fraud going back to 2014.
There are 13 pages of the report, and if you want to read the whole thing you can start here.
But here's the main problem:
In addition to the stonewalling, according to these reports, she hired an outside investigator to - essentially - override her office's findings and clear the fraudsters of a large part of their wrongdoing.
This helps explain how the fraud has gone on so long. It was discovered a decade ago and is somehow now worse than ever.
Democrats, go ahead and ignore this. We know you will.
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