Tim Walz Hit With New FRAUD Scandal

Ok, I guess this isn’t a “new” scandal, but it’s newly resurfacing….

And since I actually hadn’t heard about it before, I figured you might not have either.

Imagine losing $250 million…

Or worse, imagine as Governor getting scammed out of $250 million!

Would that make you unfit to lead?

If you get scammed out of $250 million, I’m not electing you to the local school PTA, let alone Governor or Vice President!

But that’s what happened to Tim Walz.

Allegedly.

Here’s Jesse Watters breaking it all down:

🚨BOMBSHELL REPORT: Tim Walz allowed $250 MILLION COVID-19 FRAUD under his watch. pic.twitter.com/60EbKw54e9

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) August 10, 2024

And the NY Post:

Tim Walz hit with House subpoena for records on $250M Minn. COVID fraud https://t.co/qfXn5QDTxQ pic.twitter.com/BD1Xiii69O

— New York Post (@nypost) September 4, 2024

Fox News has more details on how “Tim Walz’s school lunch fiasco got scammed for $250 million right under his nose”:

The Democrat media and Harris-Walz campaign are working overtime to seize the narrative surrounding the freshly coronated ticket of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Walz is rightly under fire for his overstated military record, frightening views on free speech and dubious relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. Rather than addressing these issues, Democrats are embracing the infamous advice of “Mad Men” character Don Draper: “If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.”

You may have noticed the media heaping praise on Walz’s policies as governor, including the universal school lunch legislation he signed in 2023. Ignoring that the program abuses taxpayer dollars by allowing wealthy families to take advantage of school lunch programs, the media roundly casts it in a positive light. Why? To change the conversation.

The truth is that Walz’s history of providing meals to hungry children isn’t about feeding them at all. Beginning in 2020, Walz allowed a fraud of massive proportions that exploited a taxpayer-funded child nutrition program during the pandemic. Some even called it the “greatest grift in U.S. history.”

According to federal prosecutors, a Minnesota-based nonprofit called Feeding Our Future (FOF) committed the nation’s largest pandemic relief fraud. $250 million was stolen from under the nose of Governor Tim Walz and his army of state education bureaucrats. Five defendants have been convicted, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The fraud was conducted as a series of cascading kickbacks based on FOF’s fraudulent reporting to Walz’s administration. FOF’s food sites overrepresented the number of meals they served to hungry children by the thousands, set up shell companies to sell the story and then pocketed the millions in extra cash from reimbursements.

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The official narrative boasts the drama of a soap opera and the tension of a Hitchcock film. It features corruption, greed and even a well-placed $120,000 bribe on a juror’s doorstep.

While the scandalous details abound, the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor released a report that breaks down the fraud allegations over 103 plainly written pages. There, hidden crumbs reveal how such a fraudulent scheme was even possible: Walz had structured the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) in such a way that proper oversight was near impossible.

The report shows that MDE suffers the same affliction as all the overwrought government agencies I oversee: diffuse decision-making that obscures accountability. As chairwoman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, I am all too familiar with education bureaucracies like the MDE enabling the misuse of taxpayer dollars.

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Take, for instance, page 55 of the report, which states that “MDE inappropriately asked Feeding Our Future to investigate complaints about itself.” Essentially, a complainant would approach the Minnesota of Department of Education with an issue involving FOF, and education officials would say, “Figure it out amongst yourselves.” It’s like a court allowing a defendant to be the judge at his or her own trial, a patently absurd way to dodge responsibility.

Or on page 48, the report finds that MDE welcomed loose oversight requirements for high-risk sponsors. While this ostensibly helped maximize the number of meals served, according to the report, it also “put the programs’ integrity at risk.” A more cynical and honest assessment is that weakening the guardrails helped divert funds from hungry children.

There is currently no evidence to suggest Walz was in on the fraud, but you have to wonder when something like that happens right under your nose, was there any complicity anywhere in this for Walz?

Politics is a DIRTY game and it seems to me like the longer anyone is in politics, the richer they become.

Is this how the game is played?

Watch for more here:

The Walz Administration has lost hundreds and hundreds of millions dollars to fraud in the past couple years. It’s unacceptable, and the only people on the hook for it are the taxpayers. I spoke about this briefly on the floor this session, take a look 👇 pic.twitter.com/OpIlWhPyFu

— 🇺🇸Mary🇺🇸 (@RepMaryFranson) June 17, 2024

And here:

Tim Walz oversaw the largest Covid fraud to date, in which Somalis scammed hundreds of millions of dollars under the false premise of ‘feeding children’ – a state audit found the Walz administration had reason to know all along, and let it happen anyway. New video on… pic.twitter.com/mRkb6qgt5c

— Matt Christiansen (@MLChristiansen) August 10, 2024

The “largest COVID fraud to date”….wow, what an accomplishment!