Tag: Fraud
USDA disqualifies 1,562 retailers, prevents $835 million in fraudulent SNAP transactions
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service has disqualified 1,562 retailers associated with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and disabled 760...
EXCLUSIVE: Homeowner questions legitimacy of ‘businesses’ at suburban homes with flashy...
A concerned Minnesota homeowner—who will be referred to as "Rick" for safety reasons—had some suspicions about things he noticed in his Savage neighborhood.
He spoke...
Fraudsters would pay 100 percent tax on stolen funds if Minnesota...
Minnesota lawmakers, frustrated over their inability to recover funds lost to fraud, came up with a proposal: imposing a 100-percent tax on fraudsters’ ill-gotten...
Minnesota House impeachment push against Walz, Ellison stalls in 8-8 committee...
A Republican-led effort to launch impeachment investigations into Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison stalled Wednesday after the Minnesota House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee...
State auditor candidate proposes ‘fraud risk’ scoring system for all local...
A Republican state auditor candidate wants to grade every local government in Minnesota on its vulnerability to fraud. The proposal comes as Minnesota continues...
GOP lawmakers say Gov. Walz’s anti-fraud plans need more ‘teeth’
Several Republicans said during an April 13 meeting of Minnesota’s House anti-fraud committee that they see gaps in measures that several state lawmakers are...
$11 million fraud trial canceled after Minnesota defendant skips hearing
The main defendant in Minnesota’s largest state-prosecuted Medicaid fraud case, Abdirashid Ismail Said, is being sought on an arrest warrant after he failed to...
Feeding Our Future fraudster who donated to Keith Ellison pleads guilty
Two more defendants in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme have pleaded guilty, including one who donated to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s reelection...
Minnesota whistleblower alleges years of ‘reckless disregard’ at fraud-plagued agency
Seven years after Faye Bernstein first blew the whistle on waste, fraud, and abuse concerns, “nothing is changing” at the Minnesota Department of Human...
Acting attorney general says DOJ now targeting ‘fraud crisis’ across US
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is now centering its efforts on targeting what he called the...