Politics & Government
Republican-Led Minnesota House Fraud Prevention Committee Releases Final Report
Federal agents have been looking for evidence of fraud and raiding autism and daycare centers in the state.
May 14, 2026
Two years of digging into Minnesota's fraud crisis revealed a multibillion-dollar problem. The state's Republican-led Fraud Committee released its final report Wednesday, but not everyone agrees with its findings.
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Countless hearings with dozens of witnesses and whistleblowers detailing Minnesota's fraud crisis are now summed up in an 80+ page report by the state's GOP-led Fraud Prevention and Oversight Committee.
It places much of the blame on Gov. Tim Walz for allowing fraud to flourish, ballooning to an estimated $9 billion through Medicaid alone. The report also accuses Attorney General Keith Ellison and his office of "passively" addressing fraud while prosecuting "relatively few" cases.
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