U.S. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer just crossed a line that Minnesota’s political establishment
hoped no one would touch. He’s openly calling for criminal prosecution of Governor Tim Walz
if a bombshell welfare fraud scandal was knowingly buried. Billions may be gone.
Evidence may have been ignored. And some money may have flowed to terr… Continues…
Tom Emmer’s demand for potential criminal charges against Governor Tim
Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison marks a rare moment when a sprawling
bureaucratic scandal becomes a personal, high-stakes reckoning.
The allegations go far beyond sloppy oversight: whistleblowers
claim senior officials were warned about massive fraud in child nutrition,
childcare assistance, housing stabilization, autism services,
and other safety-net programs, yet failed to act decisively.
With estimates of up to $9 billion in combined federal and state losses, the numbers alone are staggering.
The Feeding Our Future case, with at least $250 million
allegedly stolen and dozens already convicted or pleading guilty,
now looks like the opening chapter rather than the whole story.
Investigators are probing 14 state-run programs, with prosecutors
suggesting that as much as half of $18 billion spent since 2018 could be fraudulent.
Emmer’s praise for an independent journalist who uncovered dormant,
publicly funded childcare centers underscores his core accusation
: that outsiders found in days what government either missed for years—or chose not to see at all.
