Minnesota Welfare Administrators Made ‘Systemic Effort’ to Doctor and Even Fake Official Documents to Give out Massive ‘Grants’
Minnesota has gone from the Land of 10,000 Lakes to the Land of 10,000 scams.
With bad news rising on a near-daily basis — including Tuesday’s fatal shooting after a woman apparently tried to hit Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with her car — the state that gave America the simpering jape named Tim Walz is giving the country good reason to wonder if there’s anything good in its Democrat-dominated government.
And an audit released Monday is just making things worse.
According to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, the audit by the Office of the Legislative Auditor — a nonpartisan agency — found that a program run from the state’s Department of Human Services displayed a cavalier attitude toward spending tax dollars that would have made Tammany Hall blush.
It’s important to note that this is a different animal entirely from the “day care” scandal based largely in the state’s Somali immigrant community that is making headlines. This is in the Behavioral Health Administration, which is supposed to be focused on treating mental health and addictions, according to KARE-TV in Minneapolis.
Not only were public dollars showered on groups without adequate safeguards against corruption, according to KARE, the audit found that Behavioral Health Administration staffers had engaged in a “systemic effort” to cover their tracks by doctoring or even faking documentation that was supposed to make sure public money was well spent.
“Frankly, in the 27-plus years I’ve been with the OLA, I’ve never seen this before,” Legislative Auditor Judy Randall told lawmakers, according to KARE, while presenting the audit’s findings.
“I will say we’ve had suspicions periodically, but we’ve never been able to prove it, to document it, and we did in this case. And it’s very troubling.”
“Very troubling” is the kind of understatement one might expect from an auditor.
Some other words that might be more appropriate? How about “jaw-dropping”? “Mind blowing”? “Infuriating”?
If this is the kind of thing Democrats in America’s heartland are up to that we know about, how much more is going on that has never been made public?
The audit itself is replete with notes about violations of basic bookkeeping to ensure taxpayer money isn’t stolen.