USAO Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, announced the initial fraud indictments for the first set of fraudsters operating in Minneapolis, Minnesota. McDonald emphasized this is only the beginning of the arrests in Minnesota as the fraud is beyond a scale that can be appropriately explained.
Together with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, U.S Attorney McDonald announces the first 15 individuals indicted with initial investigated theft of $90 million. The DOJ anticipates hundreds more arrests. Secretary Kennedy notes the scale of fraud is approximately 10x more than initially evaluated.
“Let me be clear upfront about something: This is not the end of our work in Minnesota,” McDonald said. “This is the beginning of our work in Minnesota. The fraud here in Minnesota is shocking.” McDonald then pointed to Minnesota’s housing stabilization services program, which was designed to help homeless residents find and keep housing, as one of the starkest examples. The program was initially estimated in 2020 to cost about $2.5 million per year, but ballooned to more than $104 million by 2024, which McDonald attributed entirely to fraud.
What we are seeing in this storyline is the exact reason why Barack Obama and Eric Holder selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be Kamala Harris’ running mate. Former AG Eric Holder was responsible for investigating all of the potential nominees to run with Harris, and all of the Minnesota fraud was well known.
Minneapolis was/is the operational epicenter of a Marxist network that sits underneath Barack Obama and extends from Chicago through Minneapolis to Madison Wisconsin. None of this corrupt activity is a surprise to anyone who has watched how the networks operate. Union leadership like SEIU are aligned with NGO’s a various Obama community groups and operate within these regions.
Minnesota – “The fraud is enormous,” Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, was asked about former U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson’s estimate that fraud in Minnesota could total $9 billion across more than a dozen programs.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if that number is accurate or even small.
”But today, the collection of [15] cases reach 90 million in intended loss from the from the pockets of the taxpayer.”
McDonald stressed that prosecutors are focused first on individual defendants and specific cases, not a final statewide price tag.
“I don’t have the exact number, because what I do is I look at individual people committing individual crimes,” he continued. “And at the end of all of our work, we’ll tally it all up and we’ll tell you exactly how much was stolen from the American people.
“We’re focused on individual defendants.”
Federal officials said they are expanding the Midwest Health Care Fraud Strike Force into Minnesota and adding a new Medicaid fraud strike force with 15 prosecutors who can be deployed nationwide.
“This is not the end of the beginning,” McDonald concluded at Thursday’s news conference. “This is the beginning.” (source)
Sentenced to 41.5 years in MN Fraud scheme!
Looks like he broke an ankle. Should be pretty east to find.
The video won’t play for me, but that left leg looks a tad bit swollen at the thigh level…maybe a fractured femur or tibia…4 stories is quite a landing…people die from falling from that height…
TGP, for those who cannot get the video to play…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/doj-announces-indictments-against-15-minnesota-fraudsters-shocking/
Fractured femur can cause compartment syndrome, pulmonary fat embolism, shock due to severe blood loss.
Any one of those three will kill a person.
Taxpayers should have the right to sue Congress for all the losses and debt incurred from this massive fraud. They are supposed to be the stewards of our money and not one of them gives a sh*t. 31 trillion in debt that the next generation has to pay off. They should all be in prison.
These ‘programs’ were all designed to make false claims (stealing) easy. That’s on Congress.
That is on the voters who keep re-electing them (D).
First, remove federal taxes from Social Security benefits.
Taxpayers suing Congress? That should read “taxpayers suing taxpayers.”
Congress doesn’t have any money that doesn’t come from the taxpayers.
“Oversight Committees”
A stage for members to prance about on, huffing and puffing, pretending for the “folks back home” that they give a tinker’s damn while whoever knows how much in backhanders is finding its way into their bank accounts.
Forensic auditing of all 535 Senate and House elected officials please…
(Can everybody see the billowing smoke coming out of my ears?)
Over at TGP, the comments are well…you can guess.
Maybe TheSwamp can be diluted if not completely drained, after all!
I am almost at tears. I have worked and clawed my whole life to create wealth for myself and family. I have made many sacrifices along the way with the Gov’t there at every step with one hand out and the other holding a scathe for any unintentional attempt to shortchange them. I have paid tax accountants untold thousands to make sure its all buttoned up.
And my taxes are flittered away like dust in the wind to these f8king criminals. I want accountability for those who so carelessly/intentionally shovel it out the door to their aligned communities.
Same here. What they stole in a few months, took me decades to save just so I would NOT be not be a burden on society.
They came, they kicked us in the teeth, and they laugh about now how stupid we were to give them all this free stuff.
3,300 investigations later do they finally get to Governor Waltz?
Kinda crossin’ my fingers
Slow and steady wins the race.
He can use taxpayer money to defends himself. Get the low-hanging fruit first.
No, but they might just nab Omar.
So why did they pick Walz – because they wanted him outed/exposed ? Or because it was leverage to control/exploit him ?
They were looking forward for more of his fund raising results.
It was a reward for funds received.
They picked Tampon Tim because he was a corrupt money man for the American Left.
If he was VP they could cover up all of his crimes with the full protection of the entire Federal Government.
Additionally, he could run his illegal money making operation from within the Federal Government.
Because the most credible alternative to Walz, i.e., Shapiro, was of the wrong religious persuasion. And because whenever Shapiro takes an oath of office, he starts planning his move to a higher office. Kamala couldn’t have such an ambitious subordinate.
No mention of restitution.
How about asset seizure? Everyone who gets caught stealing taxpayer money MUST be required to pay back EVERY penny. Otherwise, there in no disincentive. I don’t care if it requires them to have to work the rest of their lives to pay back the money. It must be recovered.
Just end the programs.
BTW, Trump won 37-0 so far on MAGA primary endorsements!
Oz is great, but ummm, it was Nick Shirley that got this out into public and out a burr in your saddle.
Someone in the government is “handling” Nick Shirley. No possible way this kid gets the “ins” that he does without being set up for it.
Recall that older guy, that Nick was reporting with, has been investigating the Minnesota fraud for years.
“Book’em, Dano,…. Book every damn one of’em,…. including the Purple lipped, big eared Kenyan Wonder and his gerrymander mgr Wing Man!”
Also home to the FBI’s #1 laundering state. The owner of the Minnesota Twins has been using the FBI in Duluth to launder $ for over a decade. The camel jockeys are running around in short pants compared to the heavy hitters. Have a nice day Barry,
Kinda hoping we’d get to see these thugs. Media cut and scrambled the Alpha News coverage.
I’m sure they didn’t want to be labeled a racist if they showed all 15 were Somalian pirates.
I have been trying to find mugshots or even just names and nationality but can’t seem to find that data.
This is my shocked face. 😟
Minnesota changing their slogan…
‘The Land of 10,000 Frauds’ 🙂
Let’s be clear. 15 Minnesota democrats.
Walz, Ellison, Omar. Justice is waiting … .
90 million ?
We know 10s of billions we stolen fraudulently by many including politicians
How does the son of the Nation of Islam member Keith Ellison afford his son a 6 figure job when he doesn’t even live in Minnesota ?
ALL of them
This has been going on for decades. But the scale has increased dramatically. And its everywhere.
So this is federal tax money stolen, right? I know its simplistic but in the federal budget, does each state have set amounts to spend even when addition $ is granted?