NYT: How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
Minnesota is a shit show, and that Walz was almost vice president.
The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness.
Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people with felonies, accusing them of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government program meant to keep children fed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Anybody who could figure out that Somalis aren’t Scandinavian, would have seen this coming.
The episode has raised broader questions for some residents about the sustainability of Minnesota’s Scandinavian-modeled system of robust safety net programs bankrolled by high taxes.
