It’s like Christmas in April. Another two dozen fraud-linked locations in Minnesota were raided by the FBI this morning. Reportedly, Quality Learing Center was among them.
Local reporter Lou Raguse (KARE-11 TV, NBC) reports that of the 22 addresses raided today, 10 were childcares (including Quality Learing), five were autism centers, and seven were other businesses.
In the meantime, so much winning.
JOHN adds: In December of last year, then-Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson told the press that his office and the FBI had been investigating fraud in 14 state-administered programs that come under the Medicaid umbrella. Those 14 programs, Joe said, had spent $18 billion over the preceding several years, and much of it was fraud. A reporter then asked, “How much?” and Joe replied, “At least half.” Scott was one of the reporters at that press conference; he was the only one who asked whether these new frauds were centered in the same community as the Feeding Our Future scandal. Joe said they were. It was that press conference that caused the National Democratic Party to pull the plug on Tim Walz’s career. They could foresee that in the months leading up to the election, fraud would again dominate the news. I believe these raids are the continuation of the investigations that Joe Thompson described in December. The next step will be indictments of fraudsters. I believe we will see the indictments begin to drop before Memorial Day. Fraud will once again be the dominant issue in Minnesota politics, which will create a tough environment for DFL candidates like Amy Klobuchar, who is running to succeed Walz as governor. At some point, someone will ask Klobuchar the question that doomed Kamala Harris’s campaign: What would you have done differently?
