Fraud in Minnesomalia

[laughing dog]

Asks the author if “Minnesomalia” without a hint of irony.

Do you prefer Minnedishu?

Doubling down with attempts of racist humor magnifies the irony.

Wouldn't that be nationist rather than racist? Or are you suggesting that Somalians are a different race than all other people of predominantly african descent?

A pedantic white knight riding in to the rescue with pointless questions. This may be confusing, but the answer to each question is no.

 

[pood]

Asks the author if “Minnesomalia” without a hint of irony.

Do you prefer Minnedishu?

We prefer non-racist garbage from your ilk.

 

[Toni]

It appears that the fraud in Minnesota is closely associated with other fraud connected to various government programs to help businesses and others during the pandemic.

Fraud has been widely identified in many states:

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-107746

The bulk of fraud occurred during the first Trump administration

How billions in COVID-19 pandemic relief aid was stolen or wasted

Fraudsters used Social Security numbers of dead people to get unemployment checks. Cheaters collected benefits in multiple states. And federal loan applicants weren't cross-checked against a Treasury Department database that would have raised red flags about sketchy borrowers.

www.pbs.org

How could so much be stolen? Investigators and outside experts say the government, in seeking to quickly spend trillions in relief aid, conducted too little oversight during the pandemic’s early stages and instituted too few restrictions on applicants. In short, they say, the grift was just way too easy.


“Here was this sort of endless pot of money that anyone could access,” said Dan Fruchter, chief of the fraud and white-collar crime unit at the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Washington. “Folks kind of fooled themselves into thinking that it was a socially acceptable thing to do, even though it wasn’t legal.”

The U.S. government has charged more than 2,230 defendants with pandemic-related fraud crimes and is conducting thousands of investigations.

Most of the looted money was swiped from three large pandemic-relief initiatives launched during the Trump administration and inherited by President Joe Biden. Those programs were designed to help small businesses and unemployed workers survive the economic upheaval caused by the pandemic.

Not to make light of the fraud that has been uncovered in Minnesota, but it is a documented fact that enormous amounts ts of fraud was committed by many different individuals and companies across the US.
The fraud originated from programs hastily set up by the first Trump administration, but continued in programs that Biden inherited. It seems like beating a dead horse but let us reflect on the level of competence and professionalism in Trump’s first administration. It is not surprising that those who enter high levels of government rejecting all or most best practices might make some errors. But honestly, humans err all of the time and some are opportunists who take advantage of loopholes and the general public desire to help those in need.

The fact that this is so public with regards to Minnesota says something about the openness on rge part of state government in Minnesota —and also about the fact that Trump very publicly goes after anyone he sees as an enemy. Tim Walz is pretty much antithetical to Trump, although he is also very much a politician.

Trumps racism is very blatant as he ‘discusses’ the fraud uncovered. The man is a piece of work—obviously ill physically and declining cognitively, Trump is not fit to hold the office of POTUS. This is a separate issue than his moral fitness or his qualifications with respect to understanding and respecting basics such as the US Constitution, separation of powers, duties of the POTUS and his inability to put first the best interests of the country rather than his own best interests.