‘Seriously, how are Democrats not getting raided and thrown in prison?’
Minnesota and its officials have been under fire in recent weeks after a City-Journal investigation revealed bluntly: “Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.”
Now we know why the Democrat governor and the Democrats in power in the state didn’t stop it: They feared offending a “core voting bloc,” the Somalian immigrant community that was perpetrating the fraud.
Evidence shows so far that just one of the frauds was the many child-care facilities set up by the community, and their subsequent claims to have distributed many, many more daycare services or meals than they actually did, inflating their government checks.
Estimates that the schemes cost Minnesota taxpayers at least a billion dollars, much of which was sent by the Somali community back to Somalia, where it found its way into the checkbooks of al-Shabaab terrorists.
Already, the U.S. Treasury, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Housing and Urban Development are investigating.
Now, an online organization has revealed U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., reading a memo from that Democrat administration about why an investigation was not pursued.
“Here’s what a fraud investigator in the [Minnesota] attorney general’s office said. She said, ‘There is a perception that, I’m quoting now, that forcefully tackling this issue would cause political backlash from the Somali community, which is a core voting bloc for Democrats.”