𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐎𝐓𝐀 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐎𝐑: 𝐓𝐈𝐌 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐙’𝐒 𝐃𝐇𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐇𝐈𝐃𝐄 $𝟒𝟐𝟓𝐌 𝐈𝐍 𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐒

Minnesota's nonpartisan Legislative Auditor just dropped the most damning fraud report of her career — and it lands squarely on Governor Tim Walz's Department of Human Services. - M.A. Rothman

• Auditor Judy Randall's office found that DHS's Behavioral Health Administration handed out 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 $𝟒𝟐𝟓 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 in mental health and addiction treatment grants to 830 grantees between mid-2022 and the end of 2024 — with pervasive failures to verify who was actually getting the money or what they did with it.
• Then came the part Randall says she's never seen in nearly 30 years on the job: when auditors started asking questions, DHS staff didn't just admit the gaps — they 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦...