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We’ve Got $9 Billion Problems—and Accountability Ain’t One

It is not an audited loss, and it may ultimately prove too high. Federal officials should have to document and defend it. Before Minnesota’s Medicaid fraud became national news, it...
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Counterpoint: Minnesota needs an auditor of all public accounts

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Fraud scandals, weak internal controls and growing financial complexity make the case for giving Minnesota’s elected State Auditor...
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Due Process With Receipts: Taxpayer-Funded Defense Requires Continuous Financial Scrutiny

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The constitutional right to counsel must be protected, even in Minnesota’s most serious fraud prosecutions. But court-appointed representation...
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Minneapolis Can’t Be the Soft Target in a National Aid System

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By Paul Elison Minnesota’s community colleges have become the front line of a problem that can’t be solved with...
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Audit: MN Department of Human Services could’ve done more to investigate autism kickbacks

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Kickbacks are not unique to autism services — for example, they also appear common in Integrated Community Supports,...

Minnesota Fraud News Digest: March 8–14, 2026

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Minnesota Fraud News Digest: March 8–14, 2026 This week in Minnesota, the "war on fraud" transitioned from a war of words in Washington to a...

Stop Indicting Ghosts: The Real Fraud in Minnesota is Official Innocence

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"Flashlights Pointed Outward: How the Language of 'Fraud' Masks the Systemic Failure to Intervene Upstream." By Kushinda Zeleke All year, Minnesota's political vocabulary has been saturated with...

Watch: Gov. Walz outlines major plan to overhaul DHS amid fraud concerns

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugO5wqpoQA0 Gov. Walz unveiled a plan to 'reform and refine' DHS in hopes to completely eliminate fraud in the system.

The Impossible Math: Congressional Hearing Details Breakdown in Minnesota Oversight

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In a high-stakes Congressional hearing Wednesday, Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison faced a four-hour interrogation over what investigators described as a...

Watch: David Schultz interviewed on his recent article about the history of fraud in Minnesota

Fraud Crisis David Schultz -
https://youtu.be/I2YiA_0GUTw?si=1gH9uePjrCGTpYY9 Hamline University political science professor and Minneapolis Times Editor-In-Chief David Schultz joined FOX 9's All Day on Monday, February 16, to talk about the...

The Long Road to Crisis: How Minnesota’s Bipartisan Retreat from Oversight Created Today’s Fraud Problems

Fraud Crisis David Schultz -
When massive fraud scandals erupted in Minnesota's publicly funded programs in recent years, the political finger-pointing began immediately. But the roots of the crisis...

$1 billion in Medicaid funding vulnerable to fraud, according to DHS audit

Fraud Crisis Aaron Jones -
The presence of the audit itself appeared to have a chilling effect on bad actors. As the 14 high-risk programs gained national attention in...

Departed Prosecutor Thompson: “Systemic” Failures In Fraud Schemes

Fraud Crisis Marshall H. Tanick -
In his first and so far only public comments since his departure three weeks ago as the head Federal fraud prosecutor in Minnesota, Joe...

Six Additional Defendants Charged, One Defendant Pleads Guilty in Ongoing Fraud Schemes

Fraud Crisis David Tinjum -
Defendants Charged in Autism and Housing Schemes, New ICS Investigation Begins Via U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota – Six additional defendants have been charged...

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