Tag: Kristin Robbins
‘A culture that enabled fraud’: Minnesota oversight committee releases final report
The Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee in the Minnesota House of Representatives released its final report after two years of hearings on...
GOP turns to Congress after Minnesota Dems block subpoena for Omar’s...
(The Center Square) – Minnesota House Republicans want help from U.S. congressional oversight leaders after Democrats on a state committee blocked an effort to subpoena...
Minnesota committee fails to subpoena Omar after unanswered records request
(The Center Square) – Democrats on a Minnesota House committee refused to support a subpoena targeting U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar after Republicans accused her of...
Republican Kristin Robbins suspends campaign for governor of Minnesota
Minnesota state Rep. Kristin Robbins announced that she is suspending her campaign for Minnesota governor. In a lengthy Friday statement, Robbins said she came...
Lawmakers question Omar’s role in fraud scandal as she skips hearing
(The Center Square) – Minnesota lawmakers are questioning U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s role in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme as investigations and prosecutions continue.
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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...
‘Tip of the iceberg’: Lawmaker says systematic failures fueled Minnesota fraud
(The Center Square) – Minnesota’s fraud committee is uncovering what its Republican chair calls a systemic failure of oversight that allowed billions in taxpayer dollars to...
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...
Millions in cash leaving Minneapolis airport draws lawmakers’ scrutiny
(The Center Square) – Minnesota lawmakers are raising concerns about reports that hundreds of millions of dollars are leaving Minnesota's airport destined for foreign...
Rep. Kristin Robbins: How relaxed COVID-era rules fueled Minnesota’s biggest scam
(RealClearWire) -- In my testimony before the Senate last week as chair of the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and Oversight Committee, I outlined the genesis...