More than 400 current staff members say governor 'systematically retaliated' against whistleblowers


The Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees account, which says it consists of more than 480 current staff members at the Minnesota DHS, wrote on X that Walz is "100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota."

"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," the group claimed. "In addition to retaliating against whistleblower[s], Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance."

Need more information, but keep an eye on this one.

(11-30-2025 03:54 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Oh wow. This is a career killer. I wonder if it is criminal? Or impeachable?

Quote:JUST IN: Tim Walz is DODGING accountability for the mass Somalian fraud stealing millions or billions of dollars from Minnesota taxpayers

"It's not just Somalis! Minnesota is a generous state! We attract criminals!"

"Don't demonize an entire community, it's LAZY."

What a disgrace.

There is a trend here and it's simple: Somalians LEECH OFF THE TAXPAYER and must be sent packing. Now.

Well Timmy Bois told the truth. In a way. Government give aways attract criminals.

(11-30-2025 03:49 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Need more information, but keep an eye on this one.

He's anti-America; what else do you need to know?

(11-30-2025 04:37 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(11-30-2025 03:49 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  Need more information, but keep an eye on this one.

He's anti-America; what else do you need to know?

Point taken; I should have been more specific.

I was referring to his campaign for a 3rd term in MN next year: this *might* cause him to withdraw from the race, or to lose the election. That’s what I’m waiting for more information about.

Tim Walz blames Trump for Somali fraud in Minnesota, complains about being called 'seriously retarded'

Quote:Minnesota Governor Tim Walz responded to President Donald Trump’s recent criticism of his handling of crimes committed by immigrants in the state, expressing outrage after Trump referred to him as “retarded.”

Trump, in a lengthy Thanksgiving post on Truth Social, commented on multiple issues involving immigration. He claimed an immigrant earning $30,000 with a green card would receive “roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family,” calling the “refugee burden” the leading cause of social dysfunction in America. He highlighted Minnesota, which has received a heavy influx of Somali refugees, describing Somali gangs as “roving the streets looking for ‘prey’ as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone.”

“The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both,” Trump wrote.

On NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, Walz criticized the president’s language, calling the term “damaging” and accusing Trump of “normalizing hateful behavior” and trying to “distract from his incompetency.”

“We cannot allow this to be normalized,” Walz said. “You can use that language, but you shouldn’t.”

Walz, who has previously commented about hoping to hear news one day that Trump had died, accused the president of having “demonized” the Somali community. He also said Trump’s use of the word “retarded” was an effort to “demonize our children.”

The exchange comes as numerous reports have highlighted widespread fraud in Minnesota involving Somali-run organizations. The Trump administration announced last month that 44 percent of immigrants in Minneapolis were committing immigration fraud, and billions in taxpayer dollars have reportedly been stolen during Walz’s administration by members of the Somali community. Last weekend, Trump announced he would end Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota, calling the state a “hub of fraudulent money laundering activity.”

Concerns over fraud have also been raised by state employees. On Saturday, the Minnesota Department of Human Services Employees account on X, representing more than 480 department staff members, accused Walz of being “100% responsible for massive fraud” in the state.

"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," the group said. "In addition to retaliating against whistleblower[s], Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance."

Minnesota law is clear: public data belongs to the public. But there are growing concerns that DHS redactions may be used not just for privacy protection—but to shield system failures and internal inefficiencies.
We need clarity. #MNLeg #DataPractices

DHS: Can you publicly release the exact redaction rules, internal guidance, and decision-making criteria you use when responding to data requests? Chapter 13 requires justification for every redaction. The public deserves to see the standards being applied.

Redaction must follow statute—not convenience. Over-redaction to hide program errors, financial gaps, or operational missteps would violate the law and undermine public trust. Transparency isn’t optional. It’s a legal obligation.

Another concern: indefinite delays on routine data requests.
Some requests sit for months with no timeline, no explanation, and no progress updates. Under Minnesota law, agencies must respond promptly and provide data as soon as reasonably possible.

This guy is a monster. An angry socialist who has been hellbent on destroying American society. He is a malevolent idiot. He needs to be held accountable by our justice system. Hopefully this terminates any idea this ******* has of running for a third term.

MN DHS Employees Spill the Tea on Gov. Tim Walz's 'Inveterate' Lying, Complicity in Somali Fraud

Quote:Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. 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. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation by Tim Walz, certain DFL members and an indifferent mainstream media. It’s scary, isolating and left us wondering who we can turn to.

In addition to retaliating against whistleblower, Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance. Media and politicians supporting Tim Walz or the DFL-agenda attacked whistleblowers who were trying to raise red flags on fraudulent activities.

This is a cascade of systemic failures leading up to Tim Walz. Agency leaders appointed by Tim Walz willfully disregarded rules and laws to keep fraud reports quiet - even to the extent of threatening families of whistleblowers. These same leaders are not qualified for their jobs, instead getting leadership jobs via Tim Walz’s friendship so state government were left floundering. DFL lawmakers refused to acknowledge fraud and deflected any serious conversation to stop fraud. Biased mainstream media such as WCCO and MPR showed absolutely no interest in covering fraud happening in our own state. Programs, especially in behavioral health and disability services were built without any guardrails against fraud, all in an attempt to extract more funding from legislature and the federal government.

As staff, we firsthand witnessed and observed fraud happening yet we were shutdown, reassigned and told to keep quiet. Sometimes more. Leadership did not want to appear to discriminate against certain communities and were unwilling to take action, such as stopping fraud, that would have an adverse impact on their image. To date, no single agency leader has been held responsible for their role in fraud whether it’s Shireen Gandhi, Jess Geil, Jodi Harpstead, Natasha Merz, Eric Grumdahl or others.

It is a structure created and maintained by Tim Walz who has created an environment of inter-related agencies and institutions including the media - that help foster fraud through retaliation and turning a blind eye in exchange for political gain in the form of high power agency leadership jobs or other perks.

Fundamentally, Tim Walz is dishonest, lacks ethics and integrity, has poor leadership abilities, and has never taken any accountability for his role in fraud. Instead, Tim Walz deflects by blaming national politics for his own failings and distracts the public with inveterate lying. These lies include his reference of a budget surplus under his tenure. Fact is, Minnesota never had a surplus, we had been given federal ARPA funds that were conflated as surplus money otherwise, we’d be in a deficit. And those ARPA funds, which were meant to be temporary funds were used to create more leadership positions for Tim Walz “buddies.”

As such, we can’t fight fraud in Minnesota alone hence why we’re appealing to the federal levels of government. We need all the help we can get as Tim Walz’s agency leaders have upped their brazen approach in covering up their knowledge of fraud.

We are grateful to numerous solid politicians (esp the Fraud Committee) and media outlets who are trying to halt fraud. We are also grateful to other whistleblowers who are bravely stepping up.

Thank You NY Times for bringing the plight of Minnesota to the national stage.

@nytimes

lol

Trump straight up called that tampon dispensing fool “retarded”


Love it!!!

Absolutely amazing how none of this came out during the campaign. You can’t hate the media enough.

This is massive and has national security implications.



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(11-30-2025 06:07 PM)No Bull Wrote:  This guy is a monster. An angry socialist who has been hellbent on destroying American society. He is a malevolent idiot. He needs to be held accountable by our justice system. Hopefully this terminates any idea this ******* has of running for a third term.

It should but it won't.

(11-30-2025 06:51 PM)PirateJP Wrote:  Absolutely amazing how none of this came out during the campaign. You can’t hate the media enough.

Had Lamela and that dooshnozzle won this story would have never seen the light of day.

(12-01-2025 09:05 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  

(11-30-2025 06:51 PM)PirateJP Wrote:  Absolutely amazing how none of this came out during the campaign. You can’t hate the media enough.

Had Lamela and that dooshnozzle won this story would have never seen the light of day.

Dept. of Health Employees: We Warned Kamala About Rampant Fraud in Tim Walz's Minnesota — She Ignored Us

Things Are Really Heating Up for Tim Walz As New Investigations Over Fraud Scandal Drop

Quote:Things were already heating up for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

First, the reports about the fraud scandal went viral nationally. Then the scope of the scandal was much broader than had been thought.

Now it sounds like investigations are going into overdrive, and looking at Tim Walz himself as well.

A powerful US House committee and the Treasury Department both launched investigations into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s involvement in a “massive fraud” scheme that involved Somali immigrants bilking more than $1 billion from taxpayers, they revealed Monday.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told The Post that his panel “will conduct a thorough investigation into Governor Walz’s failure to safeguard taxpayer dollars” as a result.

“Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was warned about massive fraud in a pandemic food-aid program for children, yet he failed to act. Instead, whistleblowers who raised concerns faced retaliation,” Comer said.

A whistleblower account that claimed to represent hundreds of Minnesota Department of Human Services employees created a furor and went viral nationally after it alleged Walz was "100% responsible" and there was systemic retaliation, including "monitoring, threats, repression." They also stated that they informed Kamala Harris and the DNC, but were ignored.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the Treasury was investigating "allegations that under the feckless mismanagement of the Biden Administration and Governor Tim Walz, hardworking Minnesotans’ tax dollars may have been diverted to the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab."

The ploy, according to prosecutors, involved funneling money from state social services coffers — including at the Department of Human Services and Department of Education — to the nonprofit Feeding Our Future and other organizations to ostensibly feed school children.

Instead, their “depraved and brazen” plot used the funds to splurge on the lavish lifestyles of the nonprofit’s workers — including for brand new fancy cars and real estate holdings as far away as Turkey and Kenya — between April 2020 and January 2022, prosecutors said.

Walz appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday. He claimed responsibility for putting people in jail, deflected from the fraud question to President Donald Trump, saying bizarre things like it wasn't only Somalis (alright, Tim, how many folks were involved?), and there was a "difference between fraud and corruption."

Walz also accused Trump of being "unwell" and demanded he release his MRI, which takes some nerve given all the questions swirling about the fraud.

This has allegedly been going on for some time, and it's a lot to unwind. But thankfully, finally, it's getting the national attention it needed to get, and hopefully, everyone involved will be held accountable.

Quote:BREAKING

President Trump has ordered the Small Business Administration to launch an investigation into Somali organizations defrauding taxpayers through SBA loans in Minnesota under Gov. Tim Walz:

"Numerous individuals and nonprofits indicted in the $1 billion Minnesota COVID fraud scandal, including Feeding Our Future, received SBA PPP loans in addition to other state and federal funding."

"Despite Governor Walz’s best efforts to obstruct, SBA continues to work to expose abuse and hold perpetrators accountable, full stop."