As Minnesota’s massive welfare fraud scandal continues to widen, new details are emerging about how the scheme was allowed to grow into one of the largest taxpayer theft operations in U.S. history.
According to Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), state officials effectively admitted they refused to act because it would hurt the Democrats’ political interests.
Speaking on the Senate floor, Kennedy read from an internal memo written by a fraud investigator inside Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office.
The document directly identifies political fear, not investigative difficulty, as the primary reason state authorities avoided confronting the sprawling crimes.
“Here’s what a fraud investigator in the Attorney General’s office said,” Kennedy told colleagues.
“She said, ‘There is a perception that I’m quoting now, that forcefully tackling this issue would cause political backlash from the Somali community, which is a core voting block for Democrats.’”
WATCH:
The memo sheds light on how a network of fraud operations, largely connected to Somali-run nonprofits, was reportedly able to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars from federal child-nutrition programs, including the now-infamous Feeding Our Future scheme.
Public anger in Minnesota is now overwhelming.
New polling shows voters place clear blame on Democrat Governor Tim Walz for failing to prevent or uncover the scandal.
According to the Washington Free Beacon:
“Seventy-nine percent of registered voters in Minnesota think fraud in state programs is either the biggest or a major problem in their state, and just 14 percent think Gov. Tim Walz did enough to stop the fraud, according to a Monday KSTP and Survey USA poll.”
In total, 92% of Minnesotans surveyed said the fraud is a problem.
Twenty-five percent called it the biggest problem in the state, 54 percent called it a major problem, and only 13 percent said it was a minor issue.
Sixty-nine percent of respondents said Walz needs to “do more” to “stop fraud in Minnesota.”
The scandal continues to expand, with federal prosecutors issuing 78 indictments so far and more expected.
Investigators say the fraud was not limited to one operation but spread across multiple Somali-run networks that exploited federal nutrition funds with virtually no state oversight.
Walz now faces growing calls to resign over the systemic failures that occurred under his administration.
Those failures, according to Kennedy’s reading of Ellison’s own internal memo, now appear to have been politically motivated.
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