
At 10 AM Eastern Standard Time this morning, Minnesota Governor Tim “Code Talker” Walz and Attorney General Keith “Money is Power” Ellison are both scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee in Part II of the Committee’s investigation into what might be the biggest social services fraud in American history— at least $9 billion looted from programs meant to feed children, support autistic kids, house the disabled, and provide Medicaid to the most vulnerable Minnesotans.
In other words, the fraudsters were not just stealing taxpayer money. Like in New York, they were stealing from
children, autistic kids, the disabled, the elderly, and the sick. They are indeed the lowest of the low. Even below pond scum. They are the icky residue that pond scum leaves behind. The Residuans.
Even
more despicable are the people who looked the other way, helped the scummy Residuans, covered up for them, and all the while failed to protect our most vulnerable citizens.
In Part I of the Oversight hearing, held back in January, state lawmakers told Congressmen that, at minimum, Governor Walz and AG Ellison failed to stop the fraud. According to whistleblowers who’d tried to expose the massive scheme, Walz and Ellison listened carefully to their alarmed reports, focused intently on the problem, and then squashed the whistleblowers into jelly. Minnesota’s Legislative Auditor piled on, reporting that the state’s Behavioral Health Administration failed to comply with most requirements, lacked basic internal controls to prevent waste and abuse, and essentially held the bag while Somali pirates scooped in billions.
Adding insult to injury, the pirates turned around and exported the money —money provided by generous Americans to care for sick children and disabled seniors— to foreign countries and terrorists. It’s hard to imagine a more horrifying scenario.
Making things even more awkward for Attorney General Ellison, there’s an inconvenient 2021 audio recording of his call with members of the Somali community— some of whom were later convicted of defrauding millions in taxpayer money by
the DOJ after donating to Ellison’s campaign. Ellison’s office points to its record of prosecuting over 300
other Medicaid fraud cases as some kind of defense.
But there’s a weird problem. If he was so diligently prosecuting fraud, then
how did the biggest fraud scheme in US history happen anyway? Hmmm? We’re waiting.
Corrupt drug prosecutors have been known to aggressively prosecute their patrons’
rivals, which both helps their friends and provides cover against future corruption allegations. An experienced RICO lawyer might guess that Ellison’s ‘300 fraud prosecutions’ —which all appeared
after the fraud story hove into view— were of his Somali donors’
competitors, and were just meant to create an illusion of justice. I’m just spitballing. It’s only a theory. Don’t sue me.
During the Hearing Part I, Ellison regurgitated a series of defiant, Hillary-esque non-answers. Expect more of the same today. Walz, on the other hand, will experience his first sworn Congressional testimony, and we will learn how he handles the pressure. “Coach” Walz has only previously faced fawning media who tossed softballs and whispered the answers to him between cuts. It should be fun. Stand by for updates.
We don’t yet know how big and invasive the fraud investigation could get. So we can only wonder about several potentially massive possibilities. How might the scandal affect the presidential prospects of oleaginous Governor Newsom? Governor Walz already announced he won’t run for re-election. Who
else might have to resign in disgrace?
Will any public officials be arrested?
Then I wondered: How will funding freezes and fraud crackdowns affect
Democrat fundraising before the midterms? And then I tripped and fell down the rabbit hole. C’mon down here with me.
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