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Who can file ethics complaints against Minnesota governors depends on the route: formal impeachment petitions come through the Legislature under the state constitution, while internal legislative ethi...
March 5, 2019 special review concluded that Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) was vulnerable to fraud because state controls were insufficient to prevent, detect, and investigate improper payments,...
A 2019 state review found that Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) likely suffered several million dollars in fraudulent billing, while prosecutions up to that point had documented about ...
Multiple investigations of alleged fraud and misconduct connected to programs overseen by Gov. Tim Walz have been led by federal law enforcement (including the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office), state p...
The last several years of reporting and official audits show wrestled with widespread fraud across multiple social‑services programs — from pandemic-era school meals to and behavioral‑health grants — ...
Criminal prosecutions tied specifically to Child Care Assistance Program () date back at least to the mid‑2010s, with state prosecutors charging “at least a dozen” providers and individuals by 2019 an...
Prosecutors must tie specific criminal intent, knowing participation, or corrupt acts to identifiable elected officials rather than to systemic failures or to private fraudsters—an evidentiary bar tha...
’s exposure to massive losses in and federal child‑nutrition reimbursements grew out of systemic gaps: fragmented state oversight and verification weaknesses that were amplified by pandemic-era progra...
State reporting and court records show that has prosecuted multiple providers over the past decade but that convictions have been uneven: some defendants were convicted, some cases ended in hung jurie...
’s auditors have measured improper payments in Medicaid primarily through program evaluations, post-payment recovery audits, and by tracking federal improper-payment rates reported by , while measurem...
Two types of official documents anchor the public accounting of sprawling fraud probes: state legislative and agency audits that flag missing oversight and specific dollar figures tied to program year...
The concluded that the lacked adequate internal controls over grants, documenting a pattern of missing or backdated files, insufficient monitoring such as site visits, and improper payments; OLA recom...
Official, public accounting of exists in the form of targeted audits, court-driven indictments and agency-led program reviews — most notably legislative-auditor reports on childcare and food-aid progr...
The Walz administration proposed a roughly $39 million anti-fraud package after the Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) released its Feeding Our Future review, including a new centralized investig...
Federal prosecutors and U.S. administration officials have repeatedly cited a headline estimate that Minnesota programs may have lost roughly $9 billion or more to fraud since 2018, but that figure is...
A range of Republican politicians and conservative outlets have publicly accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of corruption or culpable negligence for fraud that occurred in state-administered social servi...
The Office of the Legislative Auditor’s special review concludes that the Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) oversight of Feeding Our Future was “inadequate” and “created opportunities for frau...
Available reporting shows significant allegations of fraud and administrative lapses in multiple Minnesota programs under Gov. Tim Walz’s watch, and the administration has responded with executive ord...