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Tim Walz Seems Like He’s On the Brink Of Being Indicted Over Massive Medicaid Fraud

By NEWS COMMENTARY

In case you haven’t seen it, let’s go over the series of crises that have arisen during Governor Tim Walz’s two terms in office:

  • The 2020 Summer of Love, where he allowed much of Minneapolis to burn to the ground before he asked for National Guard assistance to quell the violence.
  • The Trans Agenda, where policies were crammed through the legislature, including tampons in the boys’ locker room and snatching children away from parents who would not affirm their gender identity, and were allowed to flourish, destroying families and bringing harm to communities. Which one could argue led to…
  • A trans male shooting up Annunciation Catholic Church, killing two and injuring 17.
  • Rampant Somali fraud.

The New York Times has finally decided that the decades-long fraud and corruption inside Minnesota’s Somali communities is “newsworthy.” In its newest entry in the ongoing series, How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch, the Times lays out what conservatives have been shouting for years: Gov. Walz didn’t just ignore the warning signs — he actively shut down or sidelined anyone who tried to blow the whistle. Instead of confronting rampant abuse of taxpayer dollars, Walz chose to protect the political ecosystem that allowed it to flourish.

Here’s more from the Times:

Mr. Walz, Minnesota’s second-term governor who gained national attention last year as Kamala Harris’s running mate in a White House bid, said this week that claims of racism did not hinder his administration’s response to fraud.

Mr. Walz has said that his administration may have erred on the side of generosity during the pandemic as the state pushed out large sums of money quickly, seeking to keep Minnesotans housed, fed and healthy.

“The programs are set up to move the money to people,” Mr. Walz said in an interview. “The programs are set up to improve people’s lives, and in many cases, the criminals find the loopholes.”

Mr. Walz, who is seeking a third term next year, has created a new task force to pursue fraud cases; made it easier for state agencies to share information with one another; and announced plans for new technology, including artificial intelligence tools, to spot suspicious billing practices.

“The message here in Minnesota,” Mr. Walz said, “is if you commit a crime, if you commit fraud against public dollars, you are going to go to prison.”

With Walz’s bid for the vice presidency now behind him, a long-term hold on the governor’s mansion is essentially the end of the political road. These revelations threaten to blow even that fallback plan apart — and if the scandal continues to snowball, it could open the door for Republicans to finally take back the governorship.

And maybe even land Walz behind bars if it turns out he is a co-conspirator in all this alleged fraud, since the FBI has already begun an investigation:

Fraud has already become a central issue in a competitive governor’s race. Lisa Demuth, a Republican and current Minnesota House speaker, accused the governor of raising taxes while letting “fraud run wild” in a video announcing her bid to replace Mr. Walz.

In recent months Mr. Walz’s administration began shutting down the housing program altogether, acknowledging that it was riddled with fraud. Last month the state hired an independent auditor to review claims for 14 other Medicaid-funded programs that the state said were at high risk of fraud.

With these new allegations tying him even closer to the fraud, Walz is suddenly acting concerned and pretending to take decisive action. But employees inside Minnesota’s Department of Human Services aren’t letting him get away with using a few staged moves as proof he deserves to keep the governor’s chair.

DHS-E publicly thanked The New York Times for finally covering what Minnesota’s legacy media ignored, but they didn’t stop there. They went straight to X and laid out what really happened under Walz — how he not only let the fraud fester, but actively targeted anyone who tried to expose it:

The department’s X posted noted:

Tim 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. Tim 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 by Tim Walz, certain DFL members and an indifferent mainstream media. It’s scary, isolating and left us wondering who we can turn to.

In addition to retaliating against whistleblower, Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance. Media and politicians supporting Tim Walz or the DFL-agenda attacked whistleblowers who were trying to raise red flags on fraudulent activities.

This is a cascade of systemic failures leading up to Tim Walz. Agency leaders appointed by Tim Walz willfully disregarded rules and laws to keep fraud reports quiet – even to the extent of threatening families of whistleblowers. These same leaders are not qualified for their jobs, instead getting leadership jobs via Tim Walz’s friendship so state government were left floundering. DFL lawmakers refused to acknowledge fraud and deflected any serious conversation to stop fraud. Biased mainstream media such as WCCO and MPR showed absolutely no interest in covering fraud happening in our own state. Programs, especially in behavioral health and disability services were built without any guardrails against fraud, all in an attempt to extract more funding from legislature and the federal government.

As staff, we firsthand witnessed and observed fraud happening yet we were shutdown, reassigned and told to keep quiet. Sometimes 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. To date, no single agency leader has been held responsible for their role in fraud whether it’s Shireen Gandhi, Jess Geil, Jodi Harpstead, Natasha Merz, Eric Grumdahl or others.

It is a structure created and maintained by Tim Walz who has created an environment of inter-related agencies and institutions including the media – that help foster fraud through retaliation and turning a blind eye in exchange for political gain in the form of high power agency leadership jobs or other perks.

Hooo boy! That’s some serious smack, for sure. But the department wasn’t done:

Fundamentally, Tim Walz is dishonest, lacks ethics and integrity, has poor leadership abilities, and has never taken any accountability for his role in fraud. Instead, Tim Walz deflects by blaming national politics for his own failings and distracts the public with inveterate lying. These lies include his reference of a budget surplus under his tenure. Fact is, Minnesota never had a surplus, we had been given federal ARPA funds that were conflated as surplus money otherwise, we’d be in a deficit. And those ARPA funds, which were meant to be temporary funds were used to create more leadership positions for Tim Walz “buddies.”

As such, we can’t fight fraud in Minnesota alone hence why we’re appealing to the federal levels of government. We need all the help we can get as Tim Walz’s agency leaders have upped their brazen approach in covering up their knowledge of fraud.

We are grateful to numerous solid politicians (esp the Fraud Committee) and media outlets who are trying to halt fraud. We are also grateful to other whistleblowers who are bravely stepping up.

Thank You NY Times for bringing the plight of Minnesota to the national stage.

So Walz isn’t going to be anywhere near the Oval Office anytime soon. And it could be that he will be out of a job as governor soon, too, and maybe even wearing prison stripes. We can only hope.

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