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Investigations into welfare fraud in Minnesota, including daycare and benefits programs.
is in the midst of multiple overlapping fraud investigations that prosecutors say touch scores of cases and potentially hundreds of millions — and by some federal estimates, as much as billions — of d...
probes and linked federal prosecutions have produced a mix of indictments tied to earlier and broader fraud schemes, administrative audits finding documentation flaws, precautionary freezes of federal...
is not uniformly declining to investigate ; state investigators have opened probes into some centers while , and demanded documentation—creating overlapping jurisdiction, procedural limits, and politi...
Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) has been the subject of renewed scrutiny after state and federal probes revealed instances of billing for children not served and a cluster of prosecut...
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...
The claim that "it's patently obvious that there is a cover-up taking place" reflects a widespread political narrative being advanced in recent weeks; House Republicans have explicitly alleged a state...
is not literally “cheating” the poor as a single, covert scheme, but a combination of documented , federal funding threats, and policy changes has produced real harms and political narratives that lea...