Holy Moley Batman: Tampon Tim's State Exposes Huge Fraud Risk re: George Floyd Activism

MINNEAPOLIS, MN—In a shocking development that has left local officials deeply bewildered, a new audit reveals that handing out tens of millions of dollars to unvetted groups with zero receipts might carry a slight risk of fraud.

The city of Minneapolis, operating under the watchful eye of Governor 'Tampon' Tim Walz, spent the last five years quietly distributing over $36 million in post-2020 violence-prevention contracts. To the complete astonishment of city hall, auditors discovered that lo and behold,  handing piles of cash to random organizations might require occasionally checking if those organizations exist.

According to the new Neighborhood Safety Contract Management Audit Report, the city suffered from a minor breakdown in basic accounting, regularly paying out invoices that contained almost no supporting documentation. City workers were apparently far too busy saving the world to conduct pesky site visits, ensuring the money flowed completely unimpeded by reality.

Center of the American Experiment policy fellow Bill Glahn expressed profound lack of surprise at the findings.

"Based on my past reporting on this and other city grant programs, any diligent audit of any city-administered grant programs would produce similar results," Glahn said.

Glahn previously pointed out that the city committed up to $7.5 million to its violence-interrupter program while forgetting to check if violent crime was actually decreasing. Furthermore, several grant recipients possessed financial records smaller than a lemonade stand, with one group's "interrupters" eventually caught on video violently beating a homeless man outside a grocery store.

"The city seems primarily interested in shoveling money out the door to ‘address’ urgent problems," Glahn added. "Little if any care is given to ensuring that the grant recipients are capable of or have a track record of doing the work, are actually doing the work contracted for, or whether that work is resulting in net benefit for city residents and taxpayers."

The state of Minnesota has spent recent years pioneering this revolutionary approach to government oversight, famously failing to notice that its Feeding Our Future program was reimbursing nonexistent operations serving thousands of imaginary meals out of empty apartments and city parks.

"If they would have just gone to the facilities, you know, you hear of the thousands of people being served out of an apartment twice a day, all they would have to do is show up and look at it," Minnesota Republican state Sen. Mark Koran noted. 

Gee, what a unique idea.

"There was a legislative auditor report that showed that 30 property owners where these businesses claim to operate out of, contacted the Department of Education who manage it, who managed that program, and they told them one, the businesses don't exist in their facilities, so they don't exist, period, and one of them I think was a city park," Koran said.

Glahn added that while physical site visits are helpful, "even a cursory, front-end review of tax records and financial statements would have disqualified many of these vendors from the get-go."

George Floyd and the Thug Life

"We have not slowed down, there is no sense in which the fraud has been stopped in Minnesota," Glahn said.

While auditors stopped short of declaring specific instances of fraud in this particular report, observers online proved far less eager to extend benefit of the doubt to a government that treats taxpayer funds like confetti.

"Call it what it is," retired Navy intelligence officer Phillip C. Parrish posted on X. "This isn’t a tracking glitch. It’s the same business model that looted child-nutrition money, Medicaid housing, autism therapy, and daycare: stand up a moral emergency, pour cash through politically connected nonprofits, skip site visits and receipts, then scream 'livelihoods' when anyone asks where the money went."

Undeterred by the audit, city officials insisted everything is going according to plan. If you believe that, you might also believe one day AI will kill a billion people as per Bill Gates.   

"We appreciate the support of the auditor to make thoughtful, strategic recommendations to improve our department. In fact, the auditor expanded the scope of the report to be more thorough and holistic," a Minneapolis city spokesperson said.

"The Neighborhood Safety Department has a lot to be proud of. Our work is meaningful, and every day we’re working to make our City safer through innovative safety services, like violence prevention and human trafficking prevention, among others. We’ve taken several steps since the audit report to improve our processes and contract oversight. We are in the business of helping people and improving lives – and that means improving how we do it. It’s that simple."

At this time, Minnesota officials announced plans to launch a new $50 million grant program aimed at auditing where the previous $36 million went, awarded directly to an unverified non-profit operating out of a local Wendy's dumpster.

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Tim Walz Falls Behind Trump in Minnesota, Begins Losing Popularity Contest to Parking Meters and Unattended Snowbanks

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has achieved what many political analysts once considered impossible: becoming less popular in Minnesota than Donald Trump.

According to a new poll, Walz's approval rating has cratered to 39%, the lowest level of his six-year tenure, prompting state Democrats to launch an emergency investigation into whether reality itself has become a right-wing conspiracy.

The collapse comes as Minnesotans continue to grapple with the fallout from a massive fraud scandal that allegedly flourished under Walz's watch. Residents who once worried about potholes, taxes, and brutal winters now have the added burden of discovering that hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars apparently wandered off unsupervised.

The poll found that voters trust Republicans more than Democrats to address the fraud issue, a result that reportedly caused several MSNBC producers to faint dramatically onto antique fainting couches.

Conservatives were quick to note the political significance.

"Tim Walz has a lower approval rating than President Trump in deep blue Minnesota right now," Townhall columnist Dustin Grage posted on X. "That’s how toxic the fraud has become for Democrats."

The Trump administration has spent the past year treating Minnesota like a crime scene, dispatching fraud investigators, conducting raids, and uncovering enough questionable activity to keep congressional committees employed for the next decade.

As if the fraud scandal weren't enough, Walz is also taking heat for the state's redesigned flag, which many Minnesotans reportedly regard with the same enthusiasm normally reserved for root canals and airline baggage fees.

The new banner, approved by a commission assembled by the Democratic legislature, has become a lightning rod for criticism. Opponents argue that the flag looks less like a proud symbol of Minnesota and more like a graphic that was accidentally approved after being generated three minutes before a deadline.

"Two issues that unite a majority of Minnesotans are the rejection of Tim Walz and his failed policies and our hatred for the Minnesota Somali state flag," Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer told Fox News Digital. "The flag is an embarrassment and good on the cities who are actively removing it from their city halls and communities."

Emmer continued to pour salt directly into the governor's political wounds.

"President Trump is more popular than Tim Walz in his home state because Minnesotans are sick and tired of Walz siding with illegal aliens and Somali fraudsters over his hardworking, taxpaying constituents."

He added, "The legacy of Tim Walz will be the fires that destroyed Minneapolis, the fraud that he allowed to be stolen under his watch, and his failures that have harmed our great state."

The polling numbers suggest fraud has become the defining issue of Walz's final months in office. His support has dropped ten points in a year, while approval among Republicans has fallen to a statistically remarkable 1%, a figure usually associated with telemarketers calling during dinner.

Republican State Senator Michael Holmstrom had perhaps the most optimistic outlook for the departing governor.

"America rejected Tim Walz in 2024," Holmstrom told Fox News Digital. "Now Minnesotans are following suit. The good news for Tim is that, now that his record is on full display, he could soon be the most popular guy in the jailhouse."

Meanwhile, Republican State Senator Mark Koran argued that Walz's troubles are entirely self-inflicted.

"He let his fraud crisis blow up and didn’t do anything to fix it while he was busy shoving all this radical stuff into state government," Koran said. "After years of extreme far-left ideology and policies that don’t help normal people, Minnesotans have had enough. His legacy is going to be the fraud crisis and desecrating the state flag. Minnesota is just tired of it."

At press time, Walz's staff was reportedly encouraged by one promising development: the governor still maintains a slight polling advantage over mosquitoes, though analysts warn that race remains within the margin of error

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Walz's Minnesota: Million-Dollar SNAP Fraud Scheme In Governor's Backyard Sparks Outrage: 'Cruel Joke'

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In a shocking development that has left exactly zero people who have been paying attention to Minnesota even mildly surprised, authorities have uncovered a million-dollar food stamp fraud operation running right in Tim Walz's backyard, as if he was clueless.

The scheme, which authorities described as involving "a high degree of sophistication," apparently consisted of buying stuff at Sam's Club and Costco and then reselling it; truly the kind of criminal mastermindery that would make Ocean's Eleven look like a grocery run, and might actually eliminate Walz from suspicion for that reason.

Abdidwahid Mohamed, owner of the creatively named Minnesota Food Grocery LLC, allegedly racked up $1,141,082 in EBT payments using cards registered to other people. Investigators say they watched him make the purchases, followed him back to his store, and confirmed it all with surveillance and GPS. Many of the actual cardholders were either out of the country or insisted they never shopped at those stores. Shocking to think that such skulduggery exists in Minnesota.

"Mohamed received $1,141,082 in EBT payments," according to the complaint, which added that the plan "involved a high degree of sophistication or planning or occurred over a lengthy period of time."

Mohamed faces up to only 20 years in prison or a $100,000 fine if found guilty, penalties that in Minnesota probably come with a participation trophy and a strongly worded letter.

Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer is demanding accountability from Governor Tim Walz amid the state's broader fraud woes, including a staggering $9 billion Medicaid probe. Emmer alleges Walz is either incompetent or complicit in the theft of taxpayer funds, highlighting what critics call a thriving culture of corruption. One thing for sure, if Walz is complicit, he's certainly not the mastermind.

"Minneapolis didn't become America's fraud capital by accident," Dalia al-Aqidi (a Republican running for Congress in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District against Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar) told Fox News Digital. "It was earned. This week, it's a grocer charged with running up $1.1 million in charges on other people's EBT cards. Next week, it will be something else, but the bill always lands on the Minnesotans who actually pay taxes."

Aqidi says that families tell her "affordability" is what "keeps them up night" and the "cruel joke is that the money is here to really make a difference for people."

"It is just lining the wrong pockets and paying for luxury cars and houses on the other side of the world. The fraudsters are only half the story. The other half are the people administering these programs, from the front lines all the way up to Ilhan Omar, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Governor Tim Walz. There has been talk about ending fraud in Minnesota for years. I am going to Washington to actually do it."

Two Republican lawmakers echoed the frustration. State Sen. Mark Koran called it "yet another example of why Minnesota is target number one for fraudsters."

"The sheer volume of welfare programs, combined with the inability of state agencies to detect obvious fraud is alarming. Once again, it was a private retailer, not the state, that uncovered this fraud scheme," Koran added, referencing the suspect being initially flagged by Walmart’s Global Investigation Team.

"All individuals involved, including the people that sold their EBT cards to Abdi Mohamed, have to be fully prosecuted," Koran said. People who come here to steal from hardworking Minnesota taxpayers deserve serious consequences.

State Sen. Michael Holmstrom kept it real: "This may be the laziest one yet."

"We had this guy, Abdi Mohamed, and he named his scam company 'Minnesota Food Grocery LLC.' They aren’t even trying, because they have been conditioned to believe there are no consequences."

The bust comes as part of a larger fraud scandal centered in Minnesota's social services programs, particularly within the Somali community, and a fresh Trump administration push against food stamp abuse.

"Since its inception, SNAP has helped our most vulnerable citizens afford the essential and nutritious food they need," Rollins and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in a Fox News op-ed in March. "At least, that is what the program is supposed to do.

"Over time, however, SNAP has been taken advantage of, allowing many to game the system and leaving millions of vulnerable Americans without healthy, nutrient-dense food options."

In related news, Minnesota officials continue to express bewilderment that when you create a massive, poorly supervised pile of free money, people occasionally treat it like a pile of free money. Walz could not be reached for comment, as he was reportedly busy checking the state couch cushions for another $9 billion.

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Tampon Tim forcing teachers to abide by "horribly disgusting" "crazy" race standard says lawmaker

Minnesota state Sen. Mark Koran (R), is speaking out against a teacher requirement that he says amounts to forcing educators to take an oppressor "vow."

Public school teachers in Gov. Tim Walz’s Minnesota are required to abide by a "horribly disgusting" and "crazy" race standard that forces them to assess how their "biases, perceptions and academic training" perpetuate oppression, a state lawmaker said.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Republican state Sen. Mark Koran pointed to the requirement as further evidence of how education in Minnesota has "eroded."

According to Minnesota’s guidebook on "Standards of Effective Practice," public school teachers hoping to be licensed by the state must demonstrate that they have assessed "how their biases, perceptions and academic training may affect their teaching practice and perpetuate oppressive systems."

The requirement, which Minnesota classifies as one of its "professional responsibilities," further demands teachers use "tools to mitigate their own behavior to disrupt oppressive systems."

Koran said this requirement effectively amounts to forcing teachers to take a "vow of being an oppressor," which he called "just crazy" and "horribly detrimental."

He ripped into Walz over the changes, saying, "He's tied to the radicals, he's tied to the teachers’ unions, all the public unions of a really wild, radical agenda."

According to Koran, Minnesota has recently redone all of its teaching licensing standards "under the guise of racism."Under the new standards, he explained, teachers "have to embed in their curriculum, in their pedagogy, the understanding of the ‘oppressed’ and the ‘oppressor’ environment and overtly include that in their curricula."

"It's horribly disgusting," he said. "It is racism. It is instilling the systemic racism that doesn't exist today."Another professional responsibility required by Minnesota is that teachers understand "how prejudice, discrimination, and racism operate at the interpersonal, intergroup and institutional levels."

Teachers are required to demonstrate an understanding of "the historical foundations of education in Minnesota, including law, policies, and practices, that have and continue to create inequitable opportunities, experiences, and outcomes for learners."

The guidebook continues that teachers must highlight how the education system has created inequitable opportunities for "Indigenous students and students historically denied access, underserved, or underrepresented on the basis of race, class, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, language, socioeconomic status, or country of origin." In other words, it tells us to acknowledge that the white man sucks.

Further, under the section on student learning, the guidebook requires teachers to demonstrate their understanding of "the diverse impacts of individual and systemic trauma" on learning, including "racism, and micro and macro aggressions."Teachers are required to know how to support students using "culturally responsive strategies and resources to address these impacts."

Koran asserted that this "wild political ideology" is going to drive out more and more teachers from teaching in public schools.

"It's an offensive statement to assume that somebody's an oppressor based on who's the disfavored race of the week," he said. "We just can't have that."

Koran said that these race-based changes have been made as academic outcomes in Minnesota have simultaneously been plummeting.

"They've lowered the standards under the guise of equity," he said. "Today in Minnesota, half of our children can't read or write or do math at grade level, 50 percent, and they have high school diplomas."

"Minnesota is bragging about the graduation rates; we hit the highest ever, but fewer people have an education and are set up with a foundation to be successful," he lamented.

This comes as Walz and the state of Minnesota are facing increased national scrutiny over one of the largest fraud scandals in U.S. history. Koran said that if there is one message he could communicate to Minnesotans, it is that "the governor matters."

"We’ve got to get Minnesota back on the right track," he said. "The governor sets the tone, sets the direction, and sets the goals for which we need to work to achieve."

Look, only in Tim Walz's fever-dream version of Minnesota do they decide the best way to fix education is to make teachers swear allegiance to the Church of Oppressor Guilt. This isn't teacher training. It's a re-education camp with lesson plans. Koran is out here dropping truth bombs while the radicals turn classrooms into struggle sessions where "bias" is whatever the latest DEI commissar says it is.

They've got educators confessing their sins against the "oppressed" and "disrupting systems" like they're in some cult initiation. Meanwhile, half the kids can't read or do basic math but hey, at least the graduation rates look good on paper. Classic Minnesota: fake the numbers, push the ideology, and watch the whole thing collapse in slow motion. Walz and his union buddies own this mess, and voters are starting to notice.

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The Racism Card: How Democrats Shielded Massive Fraud in Minnesota's Somali Community

If there's one thing Democrats love more than taxpayer money, it's weaponizing accusations of "racism" to shut down any scrutiny of their pet projects. And nowhere has that been more evident than in the exploding fraud scandal rocking Minnesota, where billions in social program funds, much of it tied to the state's large Somali community, vanished while politicians like Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and Ilhan Omar looked the other way or actively deflected.

Fox News Digital talked to experts who laid it bare: State Sen. Mark Koran, former prosecutor Joe Teirab, and columnist Dustin Grage all pointed to how screams of "racism" provided perfect cover for fraudsters in Minneapolis.

Rumors of fraud in the city's booming Somali community have swirled for over a decade. But dare question it? You're a bigot, according to Democrat elected officials who dismissed any criticism as hatred toward immigrants. Stories about Somali fraud rings were labeled "racist" and buried.

"The whole story kind of died under these accusations that people were being racist," Bill Glahn, policy fellow with Center of the American Experiment, told the outlet. "Oh, maybe somebody stole a little bit here, a little bit there, but there's nothing systemic going on."Classic deflection. And it worked like a charm.

Former assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Teirab, who prosecuted cases in the Feeding Our Future scandal, described how fraud suspects played the race card shamelessly. In one secretly recorded meeting with AG Keith Ellison, they claimed investigators were only going after them "because of race."

Teirab wasn't having it; this was a calculated move to intimidate and obstruct.

"It provided cover," Teirab told Fox News Digital. "Fraudsters knew the issue of race and racism was something they could use as a cudgel… It's disrespectful to use those terms when they're not appropriate, especially in a case where fraud clearly happened." And it dilutes accusations of actual racism.

Even a juror in one trial got hit with a $120,000 bribe attempt, complete with messages framing the whole probe as racist. The goal? Not just dodge jail, but poison the well and scare off anyone daring to follow the money.

State Sen. Mark Koran (R) put it bluntly: Investigators don't chase demographics, they follow evidence. If the fraud landed disproportionately in one community, that's because that's where the crooks were operating, not some targeted persecution.

"The average Minnesotan, average legislator, doesn't care who's committing the fraud," Koran said. "All right, the evidence will lead you either to or from the perpetrator. And so, if the evidence leads to the perpetrator, we need to prosecute all of them."

But pursuing that evidence meant getting smeared as racist. Fraudsters got so bold they sued the state to keep the cash flowing despite glaring red flags.

"For the average hardworking legal U.S. citizen doing everything right," Koran said, "it’s a disgusting disservice… knowing there’s such blatant disregard for the value of that dollar."

The scale is mind-boggling. 

Federal prosecutions might hit $2 billion, but Koran says total losses across programs could be far higher when you factor in waste and outright theft. Families raked in kickbacks from fake autism providers, and investigators are too overwhelmed to chase it all. Low risk, massive reward.

State agencies "cowering in fear" of the racist label, as Glahn put it. Politicians know getting tagged with it is a "career kiss of death." A legislative auditor's report even admitted Department of Education officials went easy on nonprofits over fears of racism accusations and bad press.Then there's the media complicity. Conservative reporters pitched Feeding Our Future stories only to get shut down by editors terrified of the "racist" backlash.

"In newsrooms, they're told, ‘We can’t run that because we're going to be accused of being racist,'" Grage explained.

Remember when Minnesota's Department of Education spotted fraud and paused payments? Local pols like Omar Fateh and Jamal Osman cried racism, sued the state (and lost), but the damage was done; payments resumed. And Gov. Tim Walz had subpoena power to dig into bank records but sat on his jazz hands.

Why the hesitation? 

Politics, of course. As Glahn explained, the Somali community is concentrated in key areas, including Ilhan Omar's district. Their monolithic Democrat voting bloc swings close elections statewide and in primaries.

"The Somali community is very concentrated in Minnesota and very concentrated in Ilhan Omar's congressional district, and a few other pockets where the Somali vote swings elections, and at the state level, they're big enough that we've had some super close elections at the state level, and the Somali vote is very monolithic, votes Democrat," Glahn explained.

No wonder no one wanted to rock the boat. Fraudsters exploited the fear, taxpayers got fleeced for billions, and the vulnerable kids these programs were supposed to help suffered the most. As Minnesota picks up the pieces, the takeaway is clear: Real accountability demands guts, to chase the evidence no matter where it leads and brush off the inevitable race-baiting distractions. 

Democrats' obsession with identity politics didn't just enable fraud; it supercharged it. And hardworking Americans paid the price.

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