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The Fraud Scandal In Tim Walz’s Minnesota Just Got Millions of Dollars Worse

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The deeper investigators dig, the more fraud they are finding in blue states like Minnesota. If Democrats had consciences, they’d be ashamed of themselves. But they’re not, of course, because the money was being stolen by constituents. And as long as people are voting for them, it’s easy for Democrats to look the other way.

Like in Minnesota, where millions more in fraud of taxpayer funds have just been found:

Another scam was recently uncovered in Minnesota, involving at least 33 state college campuses. Reportedly, “ghost students” are collecting financial aid by enrolling in universities under fake aliases and pocketing the money before disappearing. There are more than 7,700 suspected so far.

Does Gov. Tim Walz do anything other than advocate for tampons in high school boys’ restrooms?

Fox 9 spoke with Jennifer Kerber, a fraud expert at Socure, who explained the scam:

They enroll in college under a fake identity. Sometimes they might even show up online and pretend to engage for a period of time. They do whatever needs to be done to trigger the disbursement of financial aid, and then they disappear. So, the student never existed, but the money is real.

It gets worse. Not only are these scammers stealing taxpayer money, but they are taking spots away from real students, which costs the school money by depriving them of students:

In one online class that had 50 spots, as soon as it opened up, within two minutes, all of the spots were taken. So, this professor thought he had this really hot class that he was going to be offering, and it turns out only two of the students enrolled in the class were real. The rest were all fake.

In December, Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon wrote to Governor Walz, informing him that a recent scam had cost taxpayers over $12 million. She stated that the state had reportedly received $3 million to help verify identities and address the issue.

In response to the uncovered fraud, House Republicans recently passed the No Aid for Ghost Students Act. However, further action is necessary. It is estimated that nearly $9 billion in taxpayer dollars have been stolen through systemic fraud in Minnesota, and this figure is likely to increase as more scandals come to light.

Walz could have been second-in-command of our country. That would have been a disaster given he can’t even efficiently run his own state.

The nub of the problem is this, however. Democrats have, through the years, set up programs where hundreds of billions of tax dollars are doled out with little or no oversight. Of course, there will be fraud. There have been decades of fraud.

Now that it’s being uncovered by the Trump administration, Democrats still don’t want to end these programs. What does that tell you?