Kamala Harris and the DNC were repeatedly warned about the widespread fraud in Minnesota under the leadership of Democrat Governor Tim Walz during her 2024 presidential campaign, a group of nearly five hundred Minnesota Department of Human Services employees reported Monday.
“[W]e did write to Kamala Harris and the DNC - multiple times - warning them about Tim Walz & his incompetence, fraud scandals and retaliation,” a post on the Minnesota Staff Fraud Reporting Commentary (formerly, Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees) X.com account explained Monday:
“We tried our best to keep the public informed as our tweets are public. Maybe Kamala Harris turned a blind eye to fraud like her running mate?”
The employees shared a reply to then-candidate Harris back from September 11, 2024 warning her about the fraud taking place in their state and the harm being wrought by her running mate, Gov. Walz:
“Ms. Harris, please listen to Minnesota State Employees who work everyday (sic) to deliver best services possible to our state & people who expect no less & pay our wages. Tim Walz has caused incredible harm to our state & agencies, retaliated against whistleblowers against fraud.”
The post includes a chart of “Selected Minnesota Fraud/Waste Cases 2019-2024” listing 21 state-funded programs receiving a total of more than a half-billion dollars of taxpayer money.
At the top of that list: Feeding Our Future – a $250 million fraud scheme that the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) has been prosecuting and investigating since 2022, resulting in charges against 78 individuals and more than 50 convictions to-date.
“When notifying Kamala Harris, we were hoping she would reconsider her choice of running mate,” the Minnesota Human Services employees explained in a follow-up post. “If Kamala Harris won and she had Tim Walz’s baggage, it would harm the country immeasurably.”
Investigations into the Feeding Our Future scam contributed to the exposure of more apparent pervasive fraud involving other programs in Minnesota, The New York Times reported Sunday:
“Over the last five years, law enforcement officials say, fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars’ worth of social services that were never provided.”
In three schemes currently under investigation, taxpayers were reportedly bilked out of more than a billion dollars (total) by scam organizations pretending to provide social services.
“Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota” and even retaliated against whistleblowers and attempted to discredit reports of fraud, the group wrote:
"We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports.”
