Good day all. The fraud levels in Minnesota have finally achieved critical media mass and entered into the general awareness of America. This was in spite of the flat out cover-up of the crimes by the Legacy Media. Now the “Somali Affair” is starting to implicate members of the Minnesota political class, such as Tampon Tim Walz.
As the estimates of the amount stolen by the Somali immigrants reach over $9 billion dollars, and appears to be increasing, The Minnesota political class is in full CYA mode. This especially includes the Minnesota State Attorney General, Keith Ellison. It was under his watch that all this happened and it’s looking like he either ignored it or worse, aided it. Now he’s claiming that he “Shut down fraud.” Here are the details from Townhall:
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said the state had “shut down” scammers the same week prosecutors announced roughly $9 billion in fraud.
Ellison likely referred to a $4.25 million multistate settlement with Menards, a home-improvement retail chain, that resolves claims that the company deceptively marketed its merchandise credit-check program and engaged in price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ellison also announced settlements with the Kia and Hyundai automakers over a lawsuit alleging the companies didn’t do enough to stop a “Kia boys” theft trend on social media, in which children steal vehicles using basic tools like a screwdriver.
This is what is known as, a “Drop in the Pacific.” Now I don’t know anything about the cases referred to, but with what the U.S. Attorney’s office has been doing for the last couple of years, and these cases are probably important to the people involved, where was Ellison’s office as the Somali immigrant community was robbing the taxpayers blind? Ellison’s claim is now being roundly and soundly laughed at. Here are those details from Fox News:
Minnesota’s attorney general was widely mocked by conservatives on social media over the weekend for a social media post touting his work to crack down on fraudsters at the same time a massive fraud scandal that could total up to $9 billion has exploded in the state over the last several years.
“Scammers thought Minnesotans were easy targets,” Democrat Keith Ellison, who has been Minnesota attorney general since 2019, posted on X on Friday in a message that is approaching 1 million views.
“They were wrong. From student loan scams to fake utility callers, we shut them down this year — fast.”
The problem for Ellison is that while he was going after these small groups, he did nothing about the billion dollar fraud that was occurring right under his nose.
Ellison’s video, where he promoted various wins cracking down on robocalls and online scams, was blasted online by those pointing out the fraud scandal involving government agencies and welfare programs that has rocked the state under his watch.
“Spare us your feign outrage, Keith,” Minnesota Republican Rep. Tom Emmer posted on X. “You’ve done nothing but enable and exacerbate fraud in Minnesota. This all happened on your watch. Welcome to the party.”
“Scammers were right,” former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab, who worked on the Feeding Our Future fraud case in the state, posted on X. “Minnesota was an easy target. That’s why they stole literally BILLIONS of dollars from us.”
This was just a sample of the comments on Ellison’s malfeasance and incompetence. Of course, it might be that Ellison wasn’t incompetent, but actually enabling what was happening. Needless to say, Ellison is trying to climb out of the hole he dug for himself.
In a statement to Fox News Digital received after publication, a spokesperson for Ellison’s office said, “The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office has broad authority in civil law to protect consumers, and Attorney General Ellison regularly uses that authority to protect Minnesota consumers from scams, deception, and fraud by businesses, corporations, and other individual bad actors.”
Big deal. We aren’t talking about civil cases. We’re talking about criminal cases and active conspiracies to defraud the state of Minnesota and the United States of America. Where the hell were you?
“That’s what the video is about.”
“When it comes to criminal fraud against federal- and state-funded Medicaid programs, the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of Attorney General Ellison’s Office works closely with the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute it, including on the very cases in which the Justice Department announced new indictments on Thursday.”
The spokesperson added that Ellison’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit is “one of the most successful units of its size in the country: in the last 7 years, it has won more than 300 convictions and $80 million in judgments for the State.”
“In a recent audit, the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recognized Minnesota for winning more Medicaid fraud convictions than any other comparably sized state.”
Please excuse me for not believing one word that was just said. The U.S. Attorney’s office is investigating and prosecuting what is going to be the largest fraud case in American history and it happened under YOUR watch. Just what the Hell were you doing? Whacking off in your office?
Ellison, along with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have been the target of heated criticism from conservatives and Republican officials in the state over the fraud scandal that has infiltrated several government agencies and, according to a press conference from federal prosecutors last week, could end up costing taxpayers up to $9 billion.
I think it’s gone past the point of criticism. Now we need investigation. What did they know? When did they know it? Why did they allow this to happen? Did their policies allow this to happen? Inquiring minds want to know!
“Tim Walz was responsible for putting into place the commissioners of the different departments who are allowing all this money to go out, and then you had Keith Ellison, who not only should have done something about stopping the fraud once he had a sense that things were happening, he should have started to investigate it,” Teirab told Fox News Digital in an interview earlier this month.
“He now tries to say that he was working hand in hand with the federal government… absolutely false, lying about what he did, what he knew and when he knew it.”
Ellison is a Democratic Communist. He lies about everything. Worse yet, the Somali Affair is now moving into other states. Some of these states are Republican controlled and it appears that the state authorities might not have known what was going on. Now that they do, they are moving hard and fast to shut things down.
I have no idea where things are going in regards to all this. However, the levels of fraud we’re seeing could not have happened without people at the state government level either being a part of it or at the very least, turning a blind eye to it. Now is the time for Bondi to pull her personal massager out, put it away and start putting resources into investigating all the blue Democrat run states.
It’s also time for congress to look into doing what they’ve always said was unthinkable. Shutting down all these programs. The Democrats can whine and complain, but this is almost all on them. I won’t be at all surprised if one or two members of Congress might not be involved in this themselves.
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