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your support. So, what the heck is going on up

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in Sama, I mean Minnesota? Like the Somali's got it

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going on up there? Man. They they found that soft

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underbelly of Minnesota benefits and they have just been just

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going to town cutting it open, just drinking from the

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lifeblood of the left wing welfare state. Minnesota is drowning

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in fraud. That's how the story started over Its City Journal,

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a piece by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Ruffo. I started

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watching this burst onto the scene during my vacation last week,

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where yes, I somehow another contracted some congestion in my chest.

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It's still there, and so I apologize for the rough

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sounding nature of my voice, although it does make it

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somewhat gravelly sounding, which I've always wanted as a broadcaster. Anyway,

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billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration

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of Governor Tim jazz Hands Walls Democratic. I added the

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jazz hands there, but he does do the jazz hands.

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Have you noticed that? But he does the waving. It's

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like jazz hands. Anyway, Democratic state officials overseeing one of

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the most generous welfare regimes in the are asleep at

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the switch, and the media, duty bound by progressive pieties,

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refused to connect the dots. Although I will say the

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New York Times has now got onto this story, so

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credit where it is due. The New York Times is

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now covering the story. City Journal broke the story, although

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to be fair, like we kind of already knew a

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lot of this like two years ago, which is weird

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because do you remember Governor Tim Walls was put on

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the presidential ticket to be the VEEP for Kamala Harris,

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and nobody talked about this story, this scandal, which has

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now exploded because now there are even more dots to connect.

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And as Christopher Rufo just tweeted out within the hour,

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the Somali fraud story reveals a truth that liberals would

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prefer to ignore. And this is why I think. I

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think he's exactly right. I think this is why people

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are uncomfortable talking about this story. It's because of the

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racial dynamic, the cultural dynamic. There is a cultural dynamic

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at play, and he articulates it. Christopher Rufo articulates it thusly,

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when Nordic welfare state culture and Somali piracy culture collide,

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the result is mass looting of the public treasury. I'm

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old enough to remember when a state representative from Mecklemburg County,

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a Democrat, Carla Cunningham, in a debate on the floor

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in the General Assembly in Raleigh a few months ago,

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and she pointed out that not all cultures are equal,

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and her felt, hello, Democrats lost their minds. How dare

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she say such a thing. And you'll recall there was

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another state lawmaker from Mecklenburg County. I forget his last name,

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it's tedros something, or maybe his last name is Tedros

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but I had him on the show. His legislative assistant

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sent out a press release condemning Carla Cunningham. So I replied,

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and I said, I'd love to have him on the show,

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and she booked. It don't know if that'll ever happen again,

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because I kept asking whether or not his assertion could

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be supported by some evidence. Make your case that all

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cultures because he was mad that she said all cultures

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are not equal, and he was mad she said that,

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and I said, well, do you believe that that's true?

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And then he kept saying about, oh, it's the context

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of this argument, it's the context of the bill, it's

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the context of the debate and all of this. And

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he could never articulate why she was wrong to say that,

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And of course she was not wrong to say that.

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In fact, there was a story out of Minneapolis. I

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believe it's Minneapolis, Saint Paul. Yeah, Saint Paul Minnesota rather

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because the name of the Islamic Center is the Saint

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Paul Islamic Center, which I did have to do a

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double take on that. Yeah, the Saint Paul Islamic Center

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put out a statement in defense of one of their

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members who just got arrested for raping a thirteen year old,

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and they put out the statement saying that he wasn't

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aware he had not fully assimilated to the American culture.

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He's a Somali so they apparently the Islamic Center of

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Saint Paul has apparently not gotten the memo that all

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cultures are equal, so because they're like, oh, no, he

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didn't know. He's from Somalia. He didn't know that that's

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not allowed here. All cultures are not equal. That's not

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to say better or worse in total right, because some

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cultures may have very good things about them and very

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bad things. And if you're going to do an assessment

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and compare, then you got to look at the totality

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of the culture. In many cases, this is back to

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the City Journal story. In many cases regarding the fraud,

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it was allegedly perpetrated by members of Minnesota's sizable Somali community.

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Federal counter terrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in

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stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they

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ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al Shabab.

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As one confidential source said, quote, the largest funder of

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Al Shabab is the Minnesota taxpayer. The City Journal investigation

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shows what happens when a tribal mindset meets a bleeding

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heart bureaucracy. When imported clan loyalties collide with a political

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class too timid to offend, and when accusations of racism

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are cynically deployed to shield criminal behavior, and there's evidence

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of that. There's direct evidence that that's why whistleblowers were

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retaliated against and shut down, and people didn't want to

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talk about it because the somalis said, that's racist. And

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the predictable result is, if you were to design a

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welfare program to specifically facilitate fraud, it would look like

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the Minnesota Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services Program or HSS. It

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would look like this program. Okay. It was the first

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of its kind in America, and it was launched with

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the noble goal to help seniors, addicts, the disabled, and

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the mentally ill. It was designed to help them secure housing.

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It was designed with low barriers to entry. It was

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designed with minimal requirements for reimbursement. Before the program went

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live in twenty twenty, officials pegged its annual estimated price

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tag to be two point six million dollars. Two point

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six million dollars. Costs went out of control, as you

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might imagine, last year, not two point six million. No, No,

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the total was one hundred four million dollars. It went

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from two point six to twenty one million, to forty

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two million, to seventy four million to one oh four million.

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It was on track this year to reach like one

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hundred and twenty five million dollars. On August first, Minnesota's

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Department of Health and Humans Services moved to scrap this program.

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They said payment to seventy seven providers. These housing stabilization

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providers had already been terminated due to credible allegations of fraud.

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Joe Thompson, who was the acting US Attorney for the

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District of Minnesota, Hey, went even further, stating that the

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vast majority of the HSS program was fraudulent. Which makes sense. Look,

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I understand, you know government program rolls out, they're like

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price tag two point six million dollars, and I'm thinking, okay,

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it's going to be double that. But even if I

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triple that, even if I put it at ten million,

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that's still nowhere near the one hundred and four million

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it that it was paying out last year. That explosive

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growth is a sign of fraud. This isn't just overbilling, No, No,

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people created entirely fictitious companies specifically to defraud the system,

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last a lifetime. So up in Minnesota, a Somali's created

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this massive UH fraud network where they were not just

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over billing through this H eight sorry HSS program, a

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housing program. They had made up companies that were specifically

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designed to defraud the system. The perpetrators often targeted people

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recently released from rehab. They would sign them up for

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medicaid services that they had no intention of providing, which

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sounds a lot like the scandal involving that guy here

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in Charlotte with heels Charlotte right, Cedric something or other,

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who was one of the pals of our indicted now

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former Charlotte City Council Member Tijuana Brown, the former acting

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US Attorney for the District of Minnesota, said, I spent

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my career as a fraud prosecutor, and the depth of

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the fraud of Minnesota takes my breath away. Here's one

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case Feeding our Future FOF, or FOFF as I call it.

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There have now been gosh, I think it's I think

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it's actually top like seventy defendants fifty six have pleaded

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guilty in the two hundred and fifty million dollar fraud scheme.

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Feeding Our Future was founded in twenty sixteen. It was

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a very small Minnesota nonprofit sponsored daycares and after school

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programs to enroll in the federal child nutrition program. So

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I think this is to the point I saw on

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the text line. Yeah, Eric said, as long as the

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Minnesota taxpayer is paying for all that fraud, it's not

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my problem. They keep voting for people like Waltz, so

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let them have at it. Right. But here's the thing,

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it's Federal Child nutrition program money, okay. So Feeding our

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Future nonprofit that sponsored daycares and after school programs to

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enroll in the federal child nutrition program in twenty nineteen,

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so three years after it was created, FOF received just

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under three and a half million dollars in federal funding

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that was dispersed by the state. So the Feds send

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the money to the state and the state distributes. In

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the months after the COVID nineteen pandemic, began. However, the

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nonprofit rapidly increased its number of sponsored sites. They used

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fake meal counts, so they made up the numbers. They

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doctored attendance records, they fabricated invoices, and the perpetrators of

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the fraud ring claimed to be serving thousands of meals

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a day, seven days a week to underprivileged children. Two

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years later, FOF received nearly two hundred million dollars in

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funding federal funding. In reality, though, the money was being

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used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles, and by

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real estate in America, Turkey sorry to Kia is how

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they pronounce it now, as well as Kenya. In twenty twenty,

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Minnesota officials began raising concerns about the nonprofits rapid expansion.

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In response, the group filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination

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related to outstanding site applications, noting that feeding our future

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caters to foreign nationals. People were afraid of being called racist.

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They were literally threatened with that in a lawsuit. How

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dare you withhold this federal money? You're racist? Media, alongside

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Minnesota's Democratic establishment, turned a blind eye to the fraud

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within the Somali community. Then This, in turn allowed the

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problem to metastasize. The fraudsters leveraged their growing political influence

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to cultivate close ties with Minnesota's elected officials. Several individuals

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involved in the Feeding Our Future scheme donated to or

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appeared publicly with do you want to guess? Ilin Omar exactly,

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the Somali born congresswoman from Minneapolis. Omar's deputy District director,

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Ali Is advocated on behalf of Feeding our Future. Omar Fateh,

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a former state senator who recently ran for Minneapolis mayor.

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He had lobbied Governor Tim Wohole in support of the

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program as well. And one of the accused, Abdi Nur Salah,

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served as a senior aide to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry.

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And that's just one program, the Feeding our Future. Yeah,

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Feeding our Future. There's another case. One of the women,

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Ashah Farhan Hassan, also Somali. She's been charged in the

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Feeding Our Future scam, but she's alleged to have played

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a role in a fourteen million dollar fraud scheme perpetrated

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against Minnesota's Early Intensive Developmental and behavioral intervention program. She

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and her co conspirators approached parents in the Somali community

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and recruited their children into autism therapy services. And it

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did not matter if a child had autism or or not.

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It did not matter. Hassan would facilitate a fraudulent diagnosis

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for them and then the kickbacks begin. You know, stories

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maybe it'll catch on, not just with the fof the

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Feeding our Future, but also the early intensive developmental and

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behavioral intervention program where this woman, Asha Farhan Hassan, along

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with her co conspirators, would recruit parents in the Somali

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community to have their kids enroll in autism therapy services,

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and if the kids did not have an autism diagnosis,

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then they would fabricate one. They would make one up

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for them. So to drive up enrollment, Hassan and her

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partners paid monthly cash kickback payments to the parents of

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the kids who enrolled, which then, of course, if you're

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coming from a pirate culture and you're the parent in

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this scenario and you don't feel like you're getting enough money,

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well now you could threaten to leave and you can

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extort the people that are running the fraud for more money,

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which occurred also some of them would actually then go

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off and create their own autism therapy centers which were

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in name only, and they would just keep all of

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the money there for the autism services. And much like

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with the HSS program the housing program, the autism claims

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to Medicaid in Minnesota skyrocketed. They went from three million

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dollars five years ago up to three hundred ninety nine

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million dollars in five years. By the time that the

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fraud scheme was exposed, one in sixteen Somali four year

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olds in the state had reportedly been diagnosed with autism.

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And that is a rate that is more than triple

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the state average, which should have been an indication like

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I don't know why all these Somalis are getting autism,

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Like what's up with that? Like are they all getting

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like massive batteries of vaccines or something. I don't know.

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No kidding, it's just a joke. I'm not saying that anyway.

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So the City Journal goes on to report later on

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this is a very lengthy investigative. Peace they find at

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least twenty eight fraud scandals have surfaced since Tim Walls

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was elected governor in twenty nineteen. Most of the large

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scale fraud rings according to two forms FBI officials who

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spoke with the City Journal have been perpetrated by members

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of the Somali community. What happened to all of the money, Well,

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some of it went to politicians in campaign contributions, obviously,

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some of it got sent back to a lot of

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it got sent back to Somalia. They sent huge sums

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in what's called remittances or money transfers from Minnesota to Somalia.

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According to reports, and estimated forty percent of households in

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Somalia get remittances from abroad, like it's propping up their

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economy in Somalia. Whatever you can say of the economy

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of Somalia, forty percent of the households there get money

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from overseas in twenty twenty three alone, the Somali diasport.

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By the way, what did I see the other day

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that Somalia is home to I think it's the largest

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goal old reserve, like the largest gold vein on Earth,

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and like the second largest uranium crop. But they can't

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access it because nobody will go in there because if

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they go in there, they get murdered. So they have

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all these resources, but because they keep murdering each other

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and then murdering anybody who comes in to try to,

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you know, turn this into profitable industries. They get murdered.

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That's why it's impoverished. Right, it's the crime. It's the

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tribal mindset, this clan mindset. Anyway, the Somalia. In twenty

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twenty three, the Somalia diaspora sent back one point seven

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billion dollars. So the people from Somalia that are living

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outside of Somalia sent back one point seven billion dollars.

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That is more than the annual government budget of Somalia.

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City Journal reports some of this money now has been

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directed to an even more troubling destination, the al Qaeda

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linked Islamic terror group Al Shabab. According to multiple law

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enforcement sources, Minnesota Somali community has sent untold millions through

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a network of hawaas, those are informal, clan based money

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traders that have wound up in the coffers of al Chebab,

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Whether intentionally or not. When you're dealing with these hawalas,

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these money traders, al Shabab is getting a cut, intended

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or not. You know, if you're sending money, you fled Somalia,

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you're working, you're law abiding, you're doing everything right. You're

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not engaged in fraud, but you're sending money back through

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these jualas you're funding al Shabab. Every cent that is

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sent back to Somalia benefits al Shabab in some way.

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They're taking their cut. Finally, City Journal reports ten years

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ago Minnesota led the nation and the number of Americans

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who had joined or attempted to join isis. Of the

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fifty eight Americans who had done so, nearly half of

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them came from Minnesota. Coincidence, welfare fraud also likely to

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become a major issue in Minnesota's twenty twenty six elections.

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Governor Tim Walls is seeking a third term, and he

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has presided over a litany of scandals. He is facing

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Republican challenger Kristin Robbins, who has made fraud prevention central

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to her campaign, as she should. If this has cost

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Minnesota and federal taxpayers billions of dollars, which there are

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some estimates that show this could be somewhere in the

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neighborhood of three to four billion dollars, like you should

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make this the focal point of your campaign. Political blowback

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is brewing. In fact, it has already blown back. There's

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a Twitter account for the Minnesota Department of Human Service employees,

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and they took a flamethrower to jazz hands. Tim Walls

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all right, if you're listening to this show, you know

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So the Minnesota Department of Human Service employees put out

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a press release basically on Twitter and they said Tim

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Walls governor is one hundred percent responsible for massive fraud

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in Minnesota. We let him know of fraud early on,

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hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud, but no, we

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got the opposite response. Tim Walls systematically retaliated against whistleblowers,

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using monitoring threats, repression, and did his best to discredit

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fraud reports. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight

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of retaliation by Tim Walls, certain DFM members, Democrat, Farmers, Labor.

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What's it called. It's the socialists, it's the basically, it's

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the Democrat Party up there, the DFL, as well as

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an indifferent mainstream media. It's scary, isolating, and left us

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wondering who we can turn to. In addition to retaliating

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against the whistleblowers, Tim Walls disempowered the Office of the

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Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance.

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Media and politicians supporting Tim Walls or the DFL agenda

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attacked whistleblowers who were trying to raise red flags on

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fraudulent activities. This is a cascade of systemic failures leading

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all the way up to Tim Walls. They always say

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Tim Walls. He's got one of those names where he

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can't just say Walls, you gotta say Tim Walls. Agency

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leaders appointed by Tim Walls willfully disregarded rules and laws

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to keep fraud reports quiet, even to the extent of

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threatening fail families of whistleblowers. These same leaders are not

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qualified for their jobs, instead getting leadership jobs via Tim

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Walls's friendship. So state government were left floundering. DFL lawmakers

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refused to acknowledge fraud and deflected any serious conversation to

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stop fraud. Biased mainstream media such as WCCO, which I

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believe is the TV station up there, as well as

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MPR which is Minnesota Public Radio. Oh, where have you gone,

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Lake wilbe Gone? They showed absolutely no interest in covering

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fraud happening in our own state. Programs, especially in behavioral

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health and disability services, were built without any guardrails against fraud,

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all in an attempt to extract more funding from the legislature.

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And the federal government. Right, that was the play makes sense.

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And by the way, I've talked about this for years,

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you would think that the people who advocate for the

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growth of government programs and services would be the biggest

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hawks when it comes to watching out for fraud, because

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any dollar that is diverted away from the mission of

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the program or the service is a dollar that is

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not then being used to help the people that you

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say you care so much about that you advocated for

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the creation of the program or service. Right, the biggest

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advocates for the programs should be the biggest hawks against fraud.

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Yet they never seem to care. Reassess your assumption if

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you don't understand the outcome, reassess your assumption. The assumption

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is that they actually care about helping these people through

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the programs and services. But that's not actually the case.

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That's not the case. They're getting the dopamine hits, they're

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getting the rush, the self pleasure sure of having other

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people know that they care. That's the juice they want.

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As staff, they say, we first hand witnessed and observed

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fraud happening, yet we were shut down, reassigned, and told

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to keep quiet. Sometimes more leadership did not want to

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appear to discriminate against certain communities and were unwilling to

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take action such as stopping fraud that would have an

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adverse impact on their image. So this is the their

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racist charge. That's why the fraud investigations were stymied, one

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of the reasons at least. It is an absolute shame.

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All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you

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