(WND)—Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, wants to be Minnesota’s next governor. This after current Democrat Gov. Tim Walz abandoned a re-election bid over evidence of what experts suggest could be $9 billion worth of social services fraud, mostly in the state’s Somali immigrant community, a district represented in Congress by the firebrand Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali immigrant herself.
But now those same receipts are bedeviling Klobuchar.
An analysis by Fox News Digital found Klobuchar’s Senate office unleashed some 1,000 press releases during the time frame 2022 to 2025, when fraud cases were being uncovered and prosecutions and convictions resulted.
But there was “no release directly addressing or offering solutions to fix Minnesota’s sprawling social services fraud scandal or Feeding Our Future,” the analysis found.
“Who are Minnesotans gonna trust for their next governor?” said Minnesota Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth, the Republican candidate for governor. “Somebody that has just decided to talk about fraud now that they’re running for office or someone that has been fighting fraud this entire time? And I think I am the most trustworthy when it comes to ending fraud and respecting taxpayer dollars as your next governor.”
The Fox analysis confirmed, “The $250 million Feeding Our Future scandal, that has ballooned into an overall social services scandal that prosecutors say could total over $9 billion, broke in late January of 2022. In more than 1,000 press releases from Klobuchar’s office from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2025, the Feeding our Future scandal was not mentioned in Klobuchar’s releases, nor were the terms ‘Minnesota fraud,’ ‘social services fraud,’ ‘Medicaid fraud,’ ‘autism fraud,’ ‘Housing Stabilization Services,’ ‘child nutrition fraud,’ ‘DHS fraud,’ or ‘nonprofit fraud.'”
Some of the frauds, involving millions of dollars and allowing the fraudsters to pay cash for pricey exotic cars which they later identified as “delivery vehicles,” amounted to someone setting up a corporate name, claiming to be running a child care center, and billing the government millions for meals served. Even though there were no meals, no children and no center.
“As Feeding Our Future was breaking and all of the fraud that was being talked about, the absent voice that I was noticing was Senator Klobuchar,” Demuth told Fox.
“She with her extended time, twenty years as a senator, could have held hearings but not only did she not hold hearings, the hearing that took place a few months ago about fraud here in the state of Minnesota she didn’t even attend and so I think that speaks very loudly to the people of Minnesota that we have a twenty-year senator, the most explosive fraud that has taken place a theft of our tax dollars here and yet, there was no mention,” Demuth said.
Demuth already has outlined a plan to fight fraud from the governor’s office.
Demuth charged, “”My question is, where were you for the last 10 years, but absolutely the last eight years? She could have done press conferences, she could have partnered with Governor Walz. She has called Governor Walz an exceptional governor, ‘he’s a great governor.’ Back when he was running for vice president, she was giving all of his accolades. Where was she to help him where our state was falling apart? I think it’s a little bit too late for her to say that this was really a priority.”
